iPhone vs. streetsweeper
Earlier this week an employee at my office couldn’t find his iPhone. So we pulled it up on Find My iPhone and saw that it was at our office. So we started looking around for it, and then a curious thing happened. It started moving down the street.
We figured that someone picked it up and made off with it, so a couple of folks jumped in a car and started after the blip on the GPS screen. When they finally caught up with it, they found a Chicago City street sweeper vehicle.
The iPhone had fallen out of a pocket, was swept up by the street sweeper and then dragged for blocks. The entire time it was still giving out its signal for Find My iPhone despite the fact that the handset itself was fairly destroyed.
So Find My iPhone is a pretty cool feature, and can stand a beating to the phone itself. Good to know.
October 28, 2011 @ 7:27 pm
did you get the phone back?
October 28, 2011 @ 7:30 pm
Yeah, so we were able to move the SIM to a new one at the AT&T store.
October 29, 2011 @ 4:45 am
I assume the phone didn’t make it? That woulda been a really neat story.
October 30, 2011 @ 8:18 pm
The phone’s screen was destroyed, but you could still power it on and see the screen (barely) behind it, but it was working. Pretty wild.