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German Schoolboy Drops Phone on Fishing Trip, Drains Entire Pond to Look For It
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| Saturday 2 Aug 2014
Posted on 08/02/2014 5:49:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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posted on
08/02/2014 5:51:25 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: nickcarraway; a fool in paradise
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posted on
08/02/2014 5:54:06 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: nickcarraway
I guess he was kicked out of the club?
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posted on
08/02/2014 5:54:35 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/02/2014 6:02:21 PM PDT
by
windcliff
To: nickcarraway
good for him, ha!
(He’ll be back, he doesn’t impress us as the kind of guy who quits..)
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posted on
08/02/2014 6:03:52 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
To: nickcarraway
And though he didn’t recover his phone, he was unapologetic.
‘It almost worked,’ he insisted.Some people really really deserve late abortions; no matter how late.
Imagine this self-centered kraut in 10 or 20 years...
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posted on
08/02/2014 6:09:05 PM PDT
by
publius911
( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
To: nickcarraway
“German engineering in der Haus, ja.”
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posted on
08/02/2014 6:10:46 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
("Vat time is it?" "I dunno." "Time...to unpimp ze lake!")
To: nickcarraway
‘It almost worked’ Filed under 'famous last words.'
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posted on
08/02/2014 6:11:05 PM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(There comes a time when liberty must fight, or die.)
To: trisham
Very resourceful... Someday, he'll be running late for work and he will realize that if he could only slow the rotation of the Earth, then sunrise would come an hour later and he would still be on time.
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posted on
08/02/2014 6:13:39 PM PDT
by
Maurice Tift
(Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
To: GeronL
How much did he drain? Poland, and most of France.
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/02/2014 6:29:42 PM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: nickcarraway
I am the guy at work they come to when their phones get soaked. I have a vacuum system and pump them down to insanely low pressures (like low earth orbit) to get all the water out. I have about a 30% success rate.
This dude had no chance.
To: nickcarraway
Given this experience in over-reaching solutions that “almost work”, I predict this lad will enjoy a full career in government service.
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posted on
08/02/2014 6:34:19 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: nickcarraway
To: SamAdams76
I find him quite ingenious. He’ll grow up to be a CEO one day and make millions.
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posted on
08/02/2014 6:45:20 PM PDT
by
flaglady47
(The useful idiots always go first)
To: nickcarraway
I guess he was to big a wuss to dive down to the bottom and feel around for his idol.
To: flaglady47
Ingenious? He stole pumps, didn't really know how to use them, flooded an adjoining park, and completely failed at his task. Had his negligent destruction of property succeeded the chances of him getting any data from a phone that had been submerged for days is negligible. You've have a really low bar for calling people ingenious.
While this type of behavior (wild plans that end in disaster, destruction, and failure) describes some CEO's I know I would hope it's atypical.
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posted on
08/02/2014 7:26:53 PM PDT
by
Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: Durus
It was his way of coming up with a plan to retrieve his phone that I found ingenious. Obviously it turned into a disaster, lol. But I still give him 5 stars for creative thinking. Each to their own.
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posted on
08/02/2014 7:41:33 PM PDT
by
flaglady47
(The useful idiots always go first)
To: Durus
Don’t know how this guy’s phone works, but if my phone were underwater for three days, I strongly suspect the SC card would still be readable.
Don’t know about the sim card.
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posted on
08/02/2014 7:46:18 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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