Posted on 03/02/2009 2:03:53 PM PST by posterchild
BUSINESSMAN who lost his mobile phone on a beach was amazed when it turned up — in the belly of a massive cod.
Andrew Cheatle thought his Nokia handset had been lost at sea after it slipped from his pocket.
But a week later his girlfriend’s mobile rang and it was fisherman Glen Kerley saying he’d found the phone in a 25lb fish.
Andrew got the handset back, dried it out — and amazingly it still works.
Andrew, 45, said: “I was messing about with my dog and my phone must have fallen out and been swept out in the swell.
“I kept calling it but I gave up hope after a couple of days.”
He was shopping for a new phone with girlfriend Rita Smith, 33, when her mobile went off.
She told him: “Your old mobile number is calling my phone.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Thanks for the tip. Wife unit and I bought two cheap late model unlocked blackberries just for travel. (I’ll sometimes join her on her business trips and be touring while she is in meetings.) We’ll pop in a local SIM chip of the lowest denomination and communicate mostly by text. If we lost one of these it would be no big deal.
I agree it is the low tech version of the idiot light and only a rough metric (I have an undergrad in EE), but I expect a company to stand by the word of it’s agents and if they are willing to make a diagnosis and promise based on a poor indicator (and I told them it may have gotten wet) then they should eat the costs when they are wrong.
LOL!
And it would scare the hll out of me if it rang while I was cleaning it!
It being the fish.
Not mine. :). You can drop it in the pool and it'll ring under water. Casio Gz'one. Works great.
The roaming charges are going to be killer!
Or at least re-labeling and calling it the "Jonah" model.
“I kept calling it but I gave up hope after a couple of days.”
“I’ll bet that annoyed the cod!”
Especially if the phone was on vibrate!
And knocking up a girl over there isn’t at all the same as here.
Mmmm, why am I dubious? Why would a cod swallow a phone and how does any cell phone survive days in salt water?
Or his phone bill next month when he finds out the fish went back & forth to France three times and he is hit with roaming charges.
Liberals everywhere do that. Nothing is ever good enough for them; especially if lots of regular folks adopt a catchphrase.
One of my pet peeves: First we had "speed bumps" here in the U.S.; now we have "speed humps" and "traffic calming." Grrrr.
They probably found the cod washed up on the beach because it had a heart attack.
I ruined my daughter’s cell phone by just spilling a small amount of soft drink on it. I also found out that it had a “tell tale” on it that showed the phone company that it had been wet.
You have to be pretty old to remember that one!
“Stinks so bad I can’t hold it up to my face, but...”
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