So I lost my cell phone today, after more than 7 months of carrying it around the world... it fell out of a plane! But first... how I lost the only other one I lost.
More than 10 years I was flying model RC helicopters... overall a pretty safe hobby except when things go wrong. I was flying one day and pretty strong gust of wind caught me off guard and crashed it. The main rotor broke off and went flying into my cell phone a couple of feet away from me. Quite scary, but I walked away with just a slightly bruised ego and a broken Nokia.
Today I went with my cousin (22 year veteran pilot) to fly some RC planes and after a little bit I had the bright idea of strapping my cell phone to the plane to record a video of the acrobatic flight... that is, my cell phone with my brand new SIM card and SD card. The flight started out great, but about 2 minutes into the flight, my cousin took the plane out to some distance to do some tricks. All it took was a simple turn at the end of a complicated aerobatic maneuver for the phone to come loose and plummet into a thick thorn filled field of very high (4 foot) grass.
The phone must have either turned off on crashing to the ground... or had no reception... so calling it did not help locate it. An hour search also proved fruitless... just lots of thorn filled bleeding appendages... oh well. I guess it's my subconscious telling me it's time to buy a new phone... an iPhone?
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