Posted on 11/17/2015 10:36:29 PM PST by beaversmom
On Friday evening, Paris suffered horrific bombings, shootings, and hijackings across the city that resulted in at least 120 casualties.
Stade de France, the stadium where France's national soccer team was playing Germany, was attacked by multiple suicide bombers.
One man who was walking by the stadium tells Reuters his Samsung phone saved him when a bomb suddenly exploded nearby. The man had been talking on his phone. Having the device next to his head protected him from some flying shrapnel, which could have proved fatal.
"After he hung up, I was crossing the street,†Reuters translates the man’s account. “And straight away, BOOM, it exploded right in front of me. Everything was blown to bits. I felt stuff flying around and then I got back up … This is the cell phone that took the hit. It’s what saved me. Otherwise my head would have been blown to bits."
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I searched. Didn’t see this story posted, but maybe it already has been.
Wow. It just wasn’t his time.
If that’s the phone, wouldn’t it be more damaged on the other side?
I meant to add that it seems the shrapnel hit the phone from the back and it is the screen-side that trapped the shrapnel based on the side view.
It doesn’t show that kind of damage on the back, which should be worse.
Odd
I think this is some cheesy Korean propaganda from Samsung. I’d like to see the back of the phone. I and most other people I know tend to talk on the phone with the screen (and microphone) on the side of my face. It would appear the phone took a hit on the side, not the back according to the photos. But the screen crack pattern would make it looks like it got hit from the front on the back. I vote for Samsung shenanigans by one of their operatives in Paris.
It’s like a tiny piece went in the back-side I guess, and then impacted the screen.
Yeah but if it was an iPhone, it would have IMPROVED his health....
Pretty small hole on the back. I suppose it’s possible, even though the front side looks like it was hit with a hammer.
That photo makes it more plausible now. Thanks. I still would’t call him a “survivor” though. “lucky passerby” maybe.
I’m glad he’s okay, but I’m a little skeptical; Samsungs aren’t bulletproof; i.e., it’s pretty hard to say the phone actually saved his life or that the shrapnel had enough energy to really kill him if he hadn’t been using the phone.
If the piece of shrapnel that did that had been capable of killing him it would have destroyed that phone and the head it was attached to.
Applecare still won’t cover that.
There’s an app for that.
and, who hangs up their phone while it is still against your head? He might have been inside the blast pressure wave and killed the phone when he was knocked down.
Imagine if he had an iPhone.
Well played!
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