Posted on 08/28/2020 5:55:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Sanitation workers cleaning out a vault toilet in the Flathead National Forest in Montana said they found a "poop-soaked phone" at the bottom of the toilet tank and were shocked to discover it still works.
Tracy Kau of A-1 Sanitation said he and his team were cleaning out the tank of the vault toilet near Holland Lake when he spotted the iPhone 11 Pro at the bottom.
"I was kind of in shock. I was like 'Whoa, there's a phone,'" Kau told KRTV. "We tried to not just suck it up or whatever, and then we went to get the grabbers. We have some grabbers that can grab like bottles and stuff, Cody grabbed it out."
Kau and his teammates, Cody Evert and Tanner Stevenson, sanitized the phone, plugged it in and were shocked to discover it still worked.
The men said they were unable to get any information from the phone because the screen was locked, and employees at Verizon and Apple said they were unable to access the information on the device without the owner's permission.
Kau said the team was finally able to get some identifying information by popping the device's SIM card into another phone.
They left a voicemail for the phone's owner, a Helena resident.
"When she finally called me back, I told her who I was, told her we found this phone in the Forest Service vault, and her initial reaction was, 'Well, you guys must have to pump out toilets because that's the last place I saw that phone,'" Stevenson said. "She was pretty shocked that we actually ended up retrieving the phone and that it worked enough to get her information off of it."
A-1 Sanitation said in a Facebook post that the "poop-soaked phone is on its way home."
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Here, in the US, people know how to retrieve phones from crap without killing themselves.
Kenya, India, China, etc., not so much.
I noted that one model has “aroma therapy”.
May be necessary in this case.....................
When I was a kid I found two pairs of underwear, one male (tighty-whiteys) and one female (skimpy, pink floral print), lying neatly, side by side next to a trail in the woods behind a gravel pit near the tiny town where I grew up. It had rained and they were wet, but otherwise clean.
I was old enough to know what may have led to them being there, but I never heard anything more about it through the local grapevine.
I wouldn’t want it back unless it had been completely disassembled and every piece cleaned and sanitized.
Are Iphone 11 Pros waterproof? If they are it may have stayed clean inside. In that case, sanitizing it would be a lot easier.
Well, if there was anything locally stored on it, maybe, with gloves, just to retrieve the info and do a factory reset on the thing afterward.
As far as keeping it? If it was water resistant/proof, it would depend on the specs versus the what the equivalent depth of immersion was, as well as the time period.
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