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So I went into the restroom at JFK today after landing. My cell was in the pocket of my hoody. The opening is angled. The phone flew out of my pocket and landed in the toilet. My instinct was to grab for it. Which triggered the auto flush. And it WENT DOWN. My cell phone is now somewhere in the NYC sewer system. Awesoooooome. Thankfully it was a 2.5 year old "dumb" phone that really only dialed. Bad news was everything was on the sim card and that wasn't backed up anywhere. Oopsie!

I pretty much laughed hysterically.

I know I'm not the only one. What other crazy stories are out there?
 
Mine was stolen directly out of my purse at the local unemployment office.

Lucky for me there was a cop stationed in the lobby. Also lucky for me the thief was stupid enough to stop for a bathroom break before exiting the building and the cop grabbed him before he could leave. Then he proceeded to resist the cop and say he didn't have the phone, until the cop pinned him against the wall and pulled it out of his pocket.

Fun times!
 
LOL! I saw your subject line and thought of my grandfather -- he's got a similar story.

My grandfather had just gotten a brand-new cell phone (back when touch-screen, e-mail reading cell phones weren't everywhere yet) as an upgrade from the one he had been using. He took it into the bathroom to "do his morning business" (his words :knockout: ) and as he was flushing the toilet, it went in and was flushed.
I can't remember if it was covered on warranty.
 
1. Fell into the toilet multiple times from when I was pulling my jeans down to sit (had it in the back pocket of my jeans) of course my instinct was to throw my hand into the toilet and get it.

2. Fell into a puddle...the ONLY puddle in sight.

3. Fell into my cup of tea (after only 1 week of having it...it was the Droid Eris)

4. Left it in a cab in San Fran, the cab driver drove back to the hotel and returned it.
 
I dropped mine in the toilet at work once. (It was the hot pink Razor phone back when that was new.) I wanted to just flush it but I was afraid I'd break the toilet...ick. So I reached in and reluctantly pulled it out. It didn't work of course, but I had insurance on it and got a new one for free/cheap.
 
hubby and I just saw a movie and got in our car and left. We had the radio on low, while we discussed the movie and some other stuff. :halo: Suddenly we started to hear voices. We looked behind us and nobody was in the back. So we assumed it might have been the radio. As we continue, we kept hearing the same voices. We turned off the radio to hear better. I started to get a little freaked. Is our car becoing Christine? All of a sudden we hear someone laughing, calling my hubbys name. It turned out when he got in the car, he sat on his phone and it redialed his best friend. They were listening us for about 5 minutes. I was very embarresd, because some of the talk was just for us.

Needless to say I couldn't look at him in the eye for a while.
 
I did this same damn dumb thing with my old Razr like four times- fourth time killed it for good finally. I would set it in my bedside table's drawer, and leave it cracked open so as to hear the phone ring if necessary. Rat (the cat) would hop onto the night stand, knock my water over, and play in the puddle, causing the drawer of the nightstand to fill with water and the phone to float merrily in there all freaking night long. Rat found it entertaining, I guess- a nice big contained puddle to dabble in. I couldn't believe the phone kept working after three rounds of this. You'd think I would have stopped putting water by the bed, or moved the phone or something :rolleyes: but apparently when I'm about to pass out for the night, my brain's checked out pretty well, haha.

ETA: Best butt dial ever: one of our friends butt dialed landline phone while we were all hanging out together, and left like a 20 minute message of all of us talking and laughing. This was years ago when cells weren't that common. I freaked out completely when I heard the message- of me, and my friends, talking- because I didn't know she even had a cell! Finally we figured it out when we talked to her later.
 
I've also dropped mine into the toilet when it was in my jeans pocket.
 
I lost mine in the middle of the town. It was an old dumb phone.

Someone actually picked it up a week later, took it to a police station miles away. The same station I reported the phone as lost in.

I got it back.

Now that's crazy.

ETA: I never found out who it was. Now I never pass anything valuable on the ground without taking it to lost and found. I hope something wonderful happened to that person.
 
During a long and boring meeting, in a room without a conference table, most of us had set coffee cups on the floor, besides our chairs (yep, one of those of meetings...). When my former boss returned to his seat, his cell phone fell from his back pocket. Straight into his full coffee cup. It was pretty amazing, as the phone barely fit into the cup.
 
I lost mine off the roof of the car once. Got it back about 2 months later, with barely a scratch. Too bad I'd already replaced it.

I dropped one into an outhouse. Like, into the hole, gone into the smelly darkness.

Once, when I was still in high school, I was playing island with a bunch of my friends (where you can only climb on the furniture, and you can't touch the floor), and one of my friends pushed me into the small crack between 2 pieces of furniture, and I landed on by butt and broke the antenna off. Think old school Nokia 5165 days.
 
Set it on the bathtub and was on speaker phone with my best friend. My very excited to see me dog ran in and knocked it into the tub. Spilled soup all over my droid eris but was able to pull the battery before any damage was done. DH's phone became a chew toy for our dog when he was a puppy. I told him not to leave it sitting on the table!
 
Oh, I forgot to add another one...left it at a barnes and noble bathroom. Picked it up the morning after.
 
My old iPhone (iPhone 3G) fell in the toilet at work. It all but died. The backlight stopped working, I couldn't talk to anyone without the headset, any time I plugged in the headphones music would automatically start playing, etc. Seven hours later it was back to functioning perfectly!

I was lucky :)

It lasted long enough to get the iPhone 4 when it came out, and then I went to the apple store and they swapped it for free for a new 3G (I used to work there so the geniuses knew me and swapped it) and gave the old one to a friend :)
 
I haven't tried this, but read that if you drop your phone in water, you should put it in rice overnight. The rice will soak up the water and then you have a perfectly working phone!
 
I dropped my "Brand New" flip phone when those first came out into a sewer drain after work. One of my coworkers was actually able to retrieve it my the antena with a piece of string and a stick! it actually still worked, I think some phones are more resilient than others.
 
My old phone use to turn on by itself. I researched and found that was a sign my phone was tapped. lol Who would tap it? Nordstrom? My crazy hair stylist? Who knows...I bought a new phone and gave that "tapped" one to my son and it quit doing the turning on. Guess 20000 hours of an 8 year old recording/video taping himself singing was enough to bore those who tapped me.

The toilet one always gets me. I was in Target or Nord (I forget) and there is a gal in there on the phone telling her mom she's at school in class, and the dang toilets are flushing. Seriously? I can understand the normal ones like meaning to sent a text to one person saying how much you hate another and ending up sending that to the person you hate instead...but the toilet flushing ones????
 
One night we were watching TV and FI's phone just caught on fire...well, no flames but lots of smoke. Wasn't plugged in or being used. So random. He was glad he wasn't using it and even more happy when we went for an upgrade to a Droid :p
 
Yup, in the toilet. I loved the pink razor phone and wish I still had it.
 
The only real adventure my phone has gone on was into the shower when I went in (mostly fully clothed) to bathe my cat. She is calmer if you hold her under the water and I kept on some old shorts and a t-shirt to offer some protection from her slightly out claws. Needless to say when I was done and taking off my clothes I wondered why my shorts were *so* heavy*... it was a treo and the keypad never worked again. Anything I could do with the touch screen was fine and I could receive calls... but ending calls I had to remove the battery if the other person didn't (or couldn't - as in voicemail) hang up lol
 
One (old Samsung flip phone) fell into the toilet in the exact same way. Pulled the battery out immediately and set it on a heating pad on low overnight--worked perfectly for another year until I got my free upgrade. :naughty:

Also, I lost another cheapie phone somewhere in either the Orlando airport, one of Delta's plane, or the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. Calls to all three lost & founds resulted in absolutely nothing, so I just got a new phone. That whole trip was quite the adventure, so losing the phone is just a hilarious addition to the saga. :cheeky:

Now I carry my personal cell (another Samsung--swear by them!) and my work phone (Verizon Droid) nearly everywhere and I'm amazed I haven't managed to lose/break either of them. Knock on wood...
 
One of my phones committed suicide by diving into a glass of grapefruit juice. :shock:
 
I used to have the cutest little gold Samsung flip phone...this was way back in my beauty school days when the small flip phones were the coolest thing (ironic that we've converted back to candy-bar phones, right?)...

I was sitting at the shampoo bowl and the chair was typical, low and slouchy and somehow my phone slipped from my pocket, smashed on the floor and literally broke in half. I mean, it was attached by wires, but it was no longer in one piece. I scotch-taped it up and it worked perfectly...not so much as a dropped call or bad reception. I used it for a few weeks before I couldn't stand the embarrassment any more.
 
I've washed my phone in the washing machine.

It didn't work after that. I've also internally cracked the screen on a phone, and I have no idea how I managed to do that.
 
Italiahaircolor|1302014748|2888228 said:
I used to have the cutest little gold Samsung flip phone...this was way back in my beauty school days when the small flip phones were the coolest thing (ironic that we've converted back to candy-bar phones, right?)...

I was sitting at the shampoo bowl and the chair was typical, low and slouchy and somehow my phone slipped from my pocket, smashed on the floor and literally broke in half. I mean, it was attached by wires, but it was no longer in one piece. I scotch-taped it up and it worked perfectly...not so much as a dropped call or bad reception. I used it for a few weeks before I couldn't stand the embarrassment any more.
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I still love flip phones and I always get one.
 
I once managed to run over my phone in an oldsmobile. Yeah. I also once found in my phone in the dumpster of an apartment building I lived in. I'm really terrible at keeping track of my phones so I always get insurance on them haha
 
Nothing too crazy, but back in college, I had my bed lofted. My desk was positioned so that it was partially under the bed, and I would set the alarm on my phone and put it on my CPU (back before I discovered the wonder of laptops). I was taking a nap one day, and picked the phone up and hit 'snooze', but then put it in the bed with me. It ended up falling down onto the hard tiled floor, and a small piece of the outside broke off, which made the front and back not snap together seamlessly. When the alarm went off again, it wouldn't stop, no matter what I pressed, but doing a hard reset worked, weirdly enough. After that, the phone was fine except for the fact that the outside looked wonky, so I ended up getting another one, just because it drove me crazy.

I almost left my phone on a table at the food court of a mall a few weeks ago, but luckily, my fiance noticed it. :)

Oh, and on a side note, during that same year of college, my computer's monitor seriously malfunctioned. Like I said, the desk was partially under the bed, but the monitor stuck out and had plenty of ventilation. I usually left my monitor on, since I had heard that it was better to not turn them on and off a lot. One day, just a little while after waking up, I was sitting at my computer, and all of the sudden i saw smoke. I completely panicked, and then I started to smell burning plastic. I realized that it was my monitor, and jumped up to turn it off - at that exact moment, the whole screen scrambled. I just wonder what would have happened if I was still in bed, and hadn't been there to see it and turn the monitor off. I never leave them on like that anymore!
 
I thought of a few more!!

I ran my brand new phone over with a lawnmower years ago. It was when flip phones were still kinda chunky. It managed to find the only tiny hole in the yard, so it came out without a scratch.

My best friend's got run over by a mail truck (her mother is a mail carrier). Hers was also in decent working order afterwards.

FI dropped his out the car window on the highway. We went back after it, and it had landed in the grass and was in perfect working order. Just a few scratches.
 
I managed to lose my phone outside my dorm in college, in a nice snowdrift. The snow melted a few days later, and a guy found it. It worked great still, so he turned it on, called my Dad (he figured that was the easiest way to get ahold of me) and I got it bck!
 
My dog ate it.....i found it out once my dog died
 
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