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Man Calls 911 To Fix Broken iPhone

Posted by samzenpus on from the and-bring-me-a-pizza-while-you're-at-it dept.

tekgoblin writes "For some reason Michael Skopec of Illinois thought that calling 911 would get his broken iPhone fixed. It got him arrested instead. From the article: 'After the five calls were made police traced the calls to his home in Illinois where they found him drunk and belligerent. He was arrested because he would not follow the police officers orders. It has yet to be made clear what he was actually trying to accomplish by calling 911 to get help with his iPhone. Although he was arrested he only faces misdemeanor charges and has to be in court next week.'"

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  1. Why the hell is this here? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Worthy of Slashdot, this is not.

  2. Re:Hey! by Stormwatch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, but with so many good games out there, why would you want to?

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  3. Re:For what it costs, it shouldn't break. by mjwx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's no reason that Apple's products need to be so fragile.

    The problem is people feelings.

    Whenever the debate over breakable phones happen, I inevitably hear the words "$ANDROID_PHONE _feels_ cheap and plasticy, like it's going to fall apart and Iphone _feels_ solid" I facepalm.

    If I drop my phone our of my pocket, 1 metre onto concrete, HARDNESS IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. The more flexible plastic which has more tensile strength so it will adsorb the impact, not to mention the components that are meant to come apart (I.E. battery cover) which serves to dissipate the kinetic energy. Tensile strength is what will save a phone in an impact, the hard casing of the iphone works against it's durability. If only people stopped relying on their "feelings" and used their brains when considering survivability.

    I've dropped my HTC Dream and Motorola Milestone. The back came off the Dream but apart from that, it still works fine. The Moto was the same the first time, but the second time the slider for the keyboad broke, the phone itself still works, no cracked screens of cases, but the keyboard will eventually come off. Haven't dropped my HTC Desire Z yet, I guess it's because nothing better with a physical KB has come out :)

    I've got an old Nokia 6500 C, metal and plastic case, survived half a dozen drops. 3 years and still working.

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