First of all, we can't verify the legitimacy of his complaint. He could have very well had a 9 year old child sitting on his lap during the wedding that he forgot about. He could have been leaning over a sink with his phone on the edge that he didn't even notice.
Second of all, that's not the way the phone was bent. The bend doesn't follow the curvature of a leg - there's not enough force. The only way there's enough force to bend the phone the way it was shown in the photo is if somehow his pocket and where the phone rests was over the bending point between your leg and your pelvis/waist. Even then, it's highly implausible. Why? ...
You need a fulcrum point. Anyone who's taken basic physics understands this. Note in the bending videos, the two thumbs provides that fulcrum point. In your front pocket, where is that fulcrum? The cloth on your pants? Seriously? Prove me wrong - try to bend your phone without placing your thumbs on the back of the phone.
What I'm saying is, try it out for yourself to assess the real-life risk of this happening. Is there any torque being applied to YOUR phone as it sits in your front pocket when you sit? My argument is that this doesn't happen to the vast majority of people and without a fulcrum point. This has nothing to do with the curvature of your leg.
On a final note - the level of critical thinking in this forum is depressing. This reminds me of all the people online who insisted there was a critical design flaw with the Tesla Model S last year when a guy in Washington hit a large piece of metal shrapnel on the highway and a fire started in the battery pack. Nobody was hurt and the car performed exactly as designed, protecting the driver from the flames. But somehow, it became the hottest topic on wall street, stock forums, and car forums for the next month - "Is Tesla doomed??" Hysteria apparently has no use for logic.
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