Article-man injure arm in cell phone retrieval
 

I have a cell phone, but it always stays in my truck and doesn't see much use. But most cell phone users seem to need their phones. Here mis one such example.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cell phone users have been known to complain about poor service, but one New York man's mobile literally went down the toilet.
The man was on a suburban train from Grand Central Station on Wednesday night when he went to the bathroom to make a phone call, dropped the phone into the toilet bowl and then his hand and arm became stuck trying to retrieve it, officials said.

Metro-North Railroad staff could not help the man, so they stopped the train and called police officers and firefighters to extricate him, a process that took 90 minutes using "jaws of life" rescue equipment.

"The toilets are made of aluminum so I imagine he was down on hands and knees with his shirt rolled up and hand and arm down inside, trying to flush out his cell phone," said Jim Cameron of the Connecticut Metro-North commuter council.

He said that because of the design of the train toilet, the mobile probably ended up in a chemical holding tank.

A spokesman for the railroad that serves the northern suburbs of New York and Connecticut identified the man as Edwin Gallard, 41, of New York, who suffered a minor injury to his arm as firefighters cut the toilet apart.

The track was closed and thousands of commuters were delayed during the evening rush hour.

The phone has not yet been recovered

Now thats what I call shitty reception.

Ewwww... no thanks.
I work for Verizon Wireless' customer care call center, its funny the number of people who lose cell phones to toilets. The thing is, if he had managed to retreive the cell phone it probably wouldn't have worked.

thats too crazy. it's just a friggen cell phone!

ive had even the smallest amount of water find its way into my phone before and all hell broke loose. no way im going into some trains toilet just to retrieve a cell phone that will never turn on again.
$50 phones with $50 rebates are just too sweet to pass up.

HAHAHA

i'd say when the phone falls into the toilet it's been sacrificed to the gods.

if it does get recovered it probably wouldn't work anyways

hehe good comment cchris :lol:

All that for a phone, lol...

That was so funny.It even got on the news in Australis.I wonder if it still worked?

exactly where cell phones belong

Bah, the cellphone would have been ruined anyway, the guy should have cut his losses, instead of needing his arm to be cut out.