Cell Phone Survives a Week in Fish Belly

Posted by Queuebot in Odd News on March 3, 2009 at 1:33 am


Businessman Andrew Cheatle lost his cell phone during a visit to the local beach.  Believing it was gone forever after his cell phone apparently swept out to sea, he received a big surprise a week later. 

Andrew, 45, said: “I was messing about with my dog and my phone must have fallen out and been swept out in the swell.

“I kept calling it but I gave up hope after a couple of days.”

He was shopping for a new phone with girlfriend Rita Smith, 33, when her mobile went off.

She told him: “Your old mobile number is calling my phone.”

Andrew continued: “She said some guy was going on about my phone and a cod so she handed it over to me and he told me where he had found it.

“I thought he was winding me up but he assured me he had caught a cod that morning and was gutting it for his fish stall and that my Nokia was inside it — a bit worse for wear.

“I didn’t believe him but went to meet him and found it was my phone — a bit smelly and battered — but incredibly it still worked after I let it dry out.”

Link – via tech

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14 comments to "Cell Phone Survives a Week in Fish Belly"

  1. BenJCarter
    March 3rd, 2009 at 3:29 am

    If it had to dry out before it worked, how did he call you using your old number?

    cough *BS* cough

  2. Evilbeagle
    March 3rd, 2009 at 3:56 am

    BenJCarter, my brother in law dropped his phone in the snow and had it exposed to sub freezing temperatures a few weeks ago. Certain functions were okay on it, and others were not. Once he warmed it up and let it dry out completely, it was as good as new. Not necessarily BS.

    I think this is a great story.

  3. Chris W
    March 3rd, 2009 at 5:36 am

    Maybe he took the sim card out of the old wet phone and put it in his own phone so he could access the phone numbers and make the call to the guys wife, then they met up he gave the old water damaged phone back to the owner, which he then dried out and tested to be working fine.

  4. Chris W
    March 3rd, 2009 at 5:38 am

    Ok maybe i should have read the article in the link first, cos what i said is exactly what happend, he took the SIM card out and put it in his own phone. So no it's not BS at all.

  5. phil
    March 3rd, 2009 at 6:47 am

    I say that guy is really lucky- a 45 year old man with a girlfriend 12 years younger? Way to go!

  6. Tracy
    March 3rd, 2009 at 7:51 am

    You hear of these things but you never think it will happen to you. Weird how the universe works!

  7. Scotchdrnkr
    March 3rd, 2009 at 8:07 am

    Imagine if you were scuba diving and heard this fish ringing as it swam by you. LOL

  8. TwoDragons
    March 3rd, 2009 at 8:26 am

    Text pops up on his screen:

    JonahWhaleChow: "boy i knw hw tht feels! ;-) "

    --TwoDragons

  9. Scooter
    March 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 am

    I put my old cell through the wash machine. I let it dry out and it no longer worked. The SIM card went into my new phone and it(the card)still works to this day. So yeah even if the phone is toast the Card might still work.

    That's kinda scary if you think about it.

  10. pyroger
    March 3rd, 2009 at 9:56 am

    "bill ... your fish is vibrating!"

  11. violet
    March 3rd, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    "dick...stop staring at my codpiece."

  12. Josh
    March 3rd, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    would your iphone do that

  13. dooflotchie
    March 3rd, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    Ew. I think I'd get a new phone anyway.

  14. DeLuxe
    March 4th, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    In 1961, famous ad man David Ogilvy made an ad in which this happened to a Zippo lighter. Also a 'true story: names, dates, location. And also: it still worked, at the first try...

    Even earlier, in the 16th century, something similar happened to a Dutch saleswomen from the town of Stavoren, who herself threw a gold ring into the sea. Lo and behold: months later there was a fish on her plate, and her ring was inside it.

    A very, very old meme, maybe?

    PS. Just last month there was a post about an elderly Australian surfer, who lost his dentures 100 meters off-shore. The next day he found them on the beach, and 'they were sharper than before'...


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