Slog - Comments on Cell Phones are Dangerous http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous Cell phones and toilets are a match made in hell—just ask Christopher Frizzelle, who plopped at least one phone into the john last month, or the 850,000 British citizens who drop their cellies down the loo every year. But none of this can touch what went down yesterday in Sheboygan, WI, where the worlds of cellular communication and standing water collided in a deadly and excessively stinky fashion. From the Fond du Lac Reporter: A 41-year-old Sheboygan man drowned Wednesday afternoon after getting stuck in a storm sewer while attempting to retrieve a dropped cell phone, police said. Brett R.... Copyright 2008 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:24:03 -0800 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:10:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Wiscaansin Sheboygin, MI!

Wiscaansin!

]]> Wiscaansin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737458 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737458 Life Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:27:20 -0800 Comment by Levislade Wow, if that's not a Darwin Award runner-up, I don't know what is.

And yeah: WI, not MI.

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737461 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737461 Life Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:29:09 -0800 Comment by oljb Are you aware that storm sewers are not used to transport human waste? In fact, they carry excess water from... storms.

]]> oljb http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737462 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737462 Life Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:29:15 -0800 Comment by David Schmader Whoops, thanks, fixed.

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737463 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737463 Life Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:30:23 -0800 Comment by toadlady I happened to see this on Craigslist the other day.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/333345372.html

]]> toadlady http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737489 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737489 Life Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:51:30 -0800 Comment by Cori @2: He would be a Darwin award winner! You are a runner-up if you manage to survive your colossal stupidity.

]]> Cori http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737495 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737495 Life Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:58:24 -0800 Comment by elswinger I feel guilty for laughing, but the image in my head is priceless.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737497 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737497 Life Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:59:59 -0800 Comment by Fnarf My cell phone has been lost or dead, I'm not sure which, for months, but I used to have to carry a pager for work. Once I was working in an unfinished bathroom and managed to drop the pager into the open standpipe hole that the toilet was going to be installed over soon. Never saw it again.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737500 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737500 Life Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:01:33 -0800 Comment by Milbarge Is this a trend? A 16-year-old from North Carolina drowned after diving in a lake after his cell phone.
http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/150402.html

It's like the old Jack Handey "Deep Thoughts" item about when you drop your keys in molten lava. Forget 'em, man, 'cause they're gone.

]]> Milbarge http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737983 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/cell_phones_are_dangerous#c737983 Life Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:19:38 -0800 Comment by Bill MSN I NIIPET
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