Posted on 08/02/2014 5:49:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
There are people who definitely are a bit too attached to their smartphone, but this determined German schoolboy is in another league entirely.
A boy enjoying a fishing trip with a group of friends accidentally dropped his iPhone over the side of the boat – so he decided to drain the entire pond.
The 16-year-old took matters into his own hands after the angling club refused to let him use his diving suit to retrieve the device, sneaking back later that night armed with a powerful pump and two hoses.
‘I thought two pumps would drain enough of the water from the pond so I could find my cellphone,’ he told his local paper in Cologne.
‘I knew the phone was probably dead but wanted to get the data card back with the numbers, pictures and videos of my friends.’
The youngster thought that if he directed the water into the angling club toilet he may get away with his plan – but he failed to notice that the toilet wasn’t attached to a sewage system.
When the owner arrived to a flooded car park he quickly found the cause and called police.
The boy was ordered to pay for the damage for the toilet, the clean-up operation and the water to refill the pond.
And though he didn’t recover his phone, he was unapologetic.
‘It almost worked,’ he insisted.
Describes the president to a ‘T’...
people think this crap is so wonderful when it damages/destroys OTHER peoples’ stuff.
Then Bama’s a genius.
“Hello, T&S Vacuum Chamber Phone Service”
“Then Bama’s a genius.”
Oh for heaven’s sake, lighten up you guys. This isn’ some heavy psychological thread, nor is it a political one. It’s a kid, not an adult. Geez, what a couple of downers. Go have an alcoholic drink. You need one.
Holt mein bier und vatch dis ...
“‘It almost worked,’ he insisted.”
Yep. Almost.
lol
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.
The name “iPhone” has already become generic, synonymous with “smartphone” for a lot of people. This is hardly the first instance I’ve read where an Android was described as an “iPhone” in the press.
Think “Kleenex” and “scotch tape”...
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.
Read the article before making crusty but inaccurate suppositions pard
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
I have to disagree and assert you misread the article.
He acted on what he knew (prior experience with pumps that he had access to), didn’t think it through and ended up causing great damage, never getting his phone.
The article states he has diving gear; a ‘genius’ would have found his way into the water with it. He’s also so ‘bright’ that he didn’t use widely-available apps to save his contacts either on his phone, the cloud or backed up on another PC/laptop/Pad/phone.
He’s a spoiled little brat unable to grasp the consequences of his actions, selfish & egotistical and, worse, unapologetic.
Sound familiar? See prior comment.
I believe I did. He sounds like a
dweeb. Has he ever heard of iCloud?
My very first thought.
Your original post indicated he was a sissy for not diving
He offered.
They refused to let him.
I think he’s a resourseful little Aryan
Cloud off my radar
God bless
Great story.
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