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How much did he drain?
I guess he was kicked out of the club?
good for him, ha!
(He’ll be back, he doesn’t impress us as the kind of guy who quits..)
Some people really really deserve late abortions; no matter how late.
Imagine this self-centered kraut in 10 or 20 years...
“German engineering in der Haus, ja.”
Filed under 'famous last words.'
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.
Given this experience in over-reaching solutions that “almost work”, I predict this lad will enjoy a full career in government service.
I guess he was to big a wuss to dive down to the bottom and feel around for his idol.
Imagine all the accidentally lost guns that he might find. I’ve lost a few that way.
Uh, if what he says about a "data card" is true, it's not an iPhone, it's an Android phone he dropped over the side. . . or he doesn't know what he's talking about. The SIM card on an iPhone doesn't carry any of that. The iPhone's user data and settings are backed up to either one's computer or to the cloud. There IS no data card in an iPhone.
He should have called Barnes Wallis and the 617 Squadron, they would drain that pond. Plus, they would do it at night, and be back home by breakfast.
He immediately disrobed and dove for it, but he could only manage to stay in the frigid water for 10 minutes, and no luck: he couldn't find the watch. Although most of the stream was shallow, the watch had fallen in six-foot-deep pool - the only one for miles around.
Most people would probably leave it there, lamenting a moment of bad luck and going home. Or they would try to tell themselves that it didn't matter, and that the loss was no big deal. But this young man was Winston Churchill, and the watch - a Dent, with a half-hunter case and the Churchill family coat of arms engraved and enameled on the back - was not something he could just give up.....
Winston hired 23 members of his infantry detachment at a cost of three pounds and had them dig a seperate course for the stream, routing all the water away from the pool. He then got his hands on the Royal Military College's fire engine and pumped the pool completely dry. There, at the bottom, he finally found his watch. The insides were rusted and the watch would have to be entirely taken apart. He sent the watch to the shop of M.F. Dent in London, hoping to have it repaired quickly and be done with it. The story of Winston almost literally moving heaven and earth to get the watch back became the stuff of legend: his peers at Sandhurst would retell it, and even decades later, friends would write to him recalling the event.
But the victory was short-lived. On April 21, he recieved an unexpected letter from his father. "I would not believe you could be such a young stupid," Lord Randolph wrote. Randolph had already been angry when Winston damaged the watch the month before: a cadet running by had batted it out of his hand, and it had needed a new balance staff, minutes wheel, pinion, seconds hand and crystal. The watch also had to be cleaned and its case needed repairing. Now, hearing of even worse damage to the timepiece, Randolph was furious.
Winston was alarmed: how could his father have learned about the mishap? As it happened, while Winston's watch was in Dent's shop on Cockspur Street, Lord Randolph had taken his own watch into the shop for repairs. Things still might have gone off without a hitch, but the watchmaker, Edward John Dent, hadn't realized that Winston wanted to keep his misadventure under wraps, and told all to the elder Churchill. Consequently, Lord Randolph took the opportunity to lecture Winston on his actions:
"It is clear you are not to be trusted with a valuable watch and when I get it from Mr. Dent I shall not give it back to you. You had better buy one of those cheap watches for 2 pounds as those are the only ones which if you smash are not very costly to replace. Jack [Winston's younger brother] has had the watch I gave him longer than you have had yours; the only expenses I have paid on his watch was 10 pounds for cleaning before he went back to Harrow. But in all qualities of steadiness taking care of his things & never doing stupid things Jack is vastly superior."
~Jay Deshpande