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Bear ambushes hiker, attacks her iPhone instead
CNET ^
| 10/14/2009
| by Caroline McCarthy
Posted on 10/15/2009 1:28:27 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
Bears have some awfully funny inclinations. Back in 2004 there were all those wackynews stories about the bear who'd downed three dozen cans of beer at a campground and proceeded to pass out.
But this one takes the cake: this summer, when Vermont hiker Kris Rowley was approached by a bear and it kept following her, it proved more interested in chowing down on her iPhone.
Rowley, who serves as Vermont's chief information security officer, tells CIO.com: "In a semi-panic, I threw the phone at the bear."
The bear proceeded to ignore Rowley and started clawing at the iPhone instead, CIO.com explains. Rowley used that as her chance to make a hasty exit. She returned two days later to get her iPhone back--bringing along a baseball bat for defense--and found it still there, but chewed and scratched up to the point where she couldn't use it anymore.
Unfortunately, the Genius Bar support team at her local Apple Store wouldn't take "a bear ate my iPhone" as a legitimate excuse to get a new one on the house: Rowley had to pay full price for a replacement.
Maybe that would've been different if she'd brought the bear along with her. Just a thought.
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Didn't see this posted or on the excerpt only list.
To: Larry Lucido
Not sure if this is the bear in question.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:29:21 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:30:12 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:31:52 PM PDT
by
LearnsFromMistakes
(Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
To: Larry Lucido; Slings and Arrows
“I said turn off your portable phone devices!”
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:32:00 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The character assassination of Rush Limbaugh is worse than what the Left accused Joe McCarthy of.)
To: Larry Lucido
No doubt looking for the honey and picanic basket Apps.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:32:01 PM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
To: I Buried My Guns
This post makes more sensse. A Bear attacking CrApple IPhone.
Maybe it had a scratch and sniff feature.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:32:18 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Larry Lucido
So was the bear sensitive to the transmissions from the phone?
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:32:23 PM PDT
by
Teflonic
To: Puppage
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:32:41 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: a fool in paradise
You can have my iPhone when you pry it from my cold, dead...ah, take it!
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:32:58 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
To: Larry Lucido
bringing along a baseball bat for defenseLoses her phone and a chance at a Darwin Award.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:33:32 PM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Live jubtabulously!)
To: Vendome
"A Bear attacking CrApple IPhone." You Apple bashers are un-bear-able.
To: Larry Lucido
She got away because she ran. Wouldn't have been so lucky if the bear had one of these.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:33:46 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The character assassination of Rush Limbaugh is worse than what the Left accused Joe McCarthy of.)
To: wolfcreek
It was sick of blackberries.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:33:55 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
To: Larry Lucido
Ok, so - she goes back looking with a baseball bat !? As if that was going to help her if she encountered the bear again ? Not too bright, that one...
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:34:04 PM PDT
by
farlander
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:35:00 PM PDT
by
mysterio
To: Larry Lucido
Why not design an app that when you bear country you can set your phone to open with an ear piercing sound that might deter a bear?
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:35:43 PM PDT
by
Doc Savage
(SOBAMP!)
To: Larry Lucido
She returned two days later to get her iPhone back--bringing along a baseball bat for defense
You gotta be kidding me.........
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:36:46 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Who's your Long Legged MacDaddy?)
To: Larry Lucido
Must have been after one of those killer apps.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:37:56 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
To: farlander
Not so good if the bear gets the bat...
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:38:24 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The character assassination of Rush Limbaugh is worse than what the Left accused Joe McCarthy of.)
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