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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iPhone Ping!..........................
Siri..... we are so sorry. Can you please call home?
The things people eat. Whew!
How does one sanitize a phone dropped in a toilet?Just as bad as dropping it in a septic tank.
It’s interesting what you sometimes find in the backcountry.
I went backpacking two week ago across the Smokies with my son and daughter. About 30 miles in — far from any road — we came across clothes spread neatly on the ground near the trail. Underwear, pants, socks, shirt, and jacket. All were expensive outdoor wear, so it would be unusual to simply abandon them there.
We joked that some hiker may have striped down and wandered into the trees to hang themselves — go out of the world like they came in you might say.
We didn’t go look.
I had this happen to a ruger lc9, it did not survive LOL
So there is hope for our cities.
Only you would find and post a story like this bro. smh and Lol
Ready to send pee mail now.
If that was my phone being “rescued” from the bowels of a sanitation tank, I would not want it back.
“That’s fascinating, you guys recovered my phone, but knowing where it’s been, I can’t see me ever wanting to use it or even touch it anymore. You want it, it’s all yours! Please do not send it to me in the mail!!”
Worthless Democrat thug UPI wrote a whole story on this. Complete with quotes.
Pitiful.
The owner said it’s had crappy reception ever since.
If you want on or off the Apple/Mac/iOS Ping List, Freepmail me.
“...So there is hope for our cities....”
Only IF they are heavily “sanitized”......with high speed lead.
Or stick up where the sun don’t shine. My Lady spent five years as a nurse in the Sacramento County Jail. . . She has some stories about what the inmates had stuck up there that was found when they were processed into the jail. . . You do NOT want to know.
Sadly there’s such a forest in Japan. Lot’s of people there. Gruesome.
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