This is the 1st thing that came to my mind when I saw the title. That was a sad story…. And a really bad movie about it.
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Dropped iPhone Causes Woman to Be Trapped Upside Down in Rock Crevice for Hours
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Desperation would be an act to separate you from living or dying. Climbing up a 50’ tree to get some food/fruit or killing a wild animal with your bare hands for food when on the brink of starvation, that is desperation. Not crawling down a crack so you don’t miss out on your daily gems. This was the complete OPPOSITE of desperation.
This whole thing reads like a bad YouTubers version of “127 Hours” gone wrong.
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I'm neither offended, nor sensitive. But laughing under any circumstances of people dying just isn't ok.
Shame, that must have been a really scary experience. And huge props to the rescue team helping her in the ways that they have.
Australian woman Matilda Campbell ended up trapped in a tight rock crevice upside down after she fell trying to retrieve an iPhone that she dropped, according to a report from ABC Newcastle.
The 23-year-old was taking images in the New South Wales Hunter Valley when she lost hold of her phone. She tried to get it, but slipped and fell three meters and became stuck between two large boulders, hanging upside down by her feet. While the news report does not make specific mention of an iPhone, Campbell's social media accounts indicate she was an iPhone user.
It took an hour for rescuers to get to Campbell, and several more hours to free her. NSW Ambulance rescue paramedic Peter Watts told ABC Newcastle that Campbell was calm and collected, despite the situation. He said it was a difficult, "out-of-the-box rescue" that was unlike anything he'd previously experienced. NSW Ambulance shared images of the rescue on Facebook.
Rescue crews had to remove seven boulders weighing between 80 and 500 kilograms to free Campbell, plus a wooden frame had to be constructed in case any boulders cracked and fell. Campbell was trapped for approximately seven hours, and she ended up with scrapes, bruises, and a cracked vertebra. She was not able to retrieve her iPhone.
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That last line of your article though just made me LOL!
She didn’t die so your point is irrelevant. Clearly you’re something.
Now run along now and argue about something else trivial.
Also if you can’t find the humor in the fact some of us are so attached to our phones that we’d almost die to to retrieve it then that’s sad on your part.
"When you're stuck between a rock and a hard place… there's iPhone."
If only apple had the cajones to run an ad like that.
Hey maybe even star the woman of the hour lmao
"While the news report does not make specific mention of an iPhone, Campbell's social media accounts indicate she was an iPhone user."
In other news _ my phone fell on my face.
In other news _ my phone fell on my face.
Stupid woman caused woman to be trapped. The phone had nothing to do with it.
Australian woman Matilda Campbell ended up trapped in a tight rock crevice upside down after she fell trying to retrieve an iPhone that she dropped, according to a report from ABC Newcastle.
The 23-year-old was taking images in the New South Wales Hunter Valley when she lost hold of her phone. She tried to get it, but slipped and fell three meters and became stuck between two large boulders, hanging upside down by her feet. While the news report does not make specific mention of an iPhone, Campbell's social media accounts indicate she was an iPhone user.
It took an hour for rescuers to get to Campbell, and several more hours to free her. NSW Ambulance rescue paramedic Peter Watts told ABC Newcastle that Campbell was calm and collected, despite the situation. He said it was a difficult, "out-of-the-box rescue" that was unlike anything he'd previously experienced. NSW Ambulance shared images of the rescue on Facebook.
Rescue crews had to remove seven boulders weighing between 80 and 500 kilograms to free Campbell, plus a wooden frame had to be constructed in case any boulders cracked and fell. Campbell was trapped for approximately seven hours, and she ended up with scrapes, bruises, and a cracked vertebra. She was not able to retrieve her iPhone.
Article Link: Dropped iPhone Causes Woman to Be Trapped Upside Down in Rock Crevice for Hours
‘Your holding it wrong’ - Steve.
Sorry if that’s been posted before 😅
Sorry if that’s been posted before 😅
Both your main comment and edit did my day.
Thank you kind internet proper comedian
She knew where it was. How would doing either of those things get her phone back in her hand? Lmao.
It is hilarious because she survived and the tone landing at the last sentence line nailed it.
That said, for anybody that have tried standing upside down just for a few minutes can quickly realize that this is ultimately deadly like nothing else… hours? that’s total torture.
I would be surprised if she really didn’t have any side effects from this event.
I can’t remember the exact details, but long upside down exposure can make blood pool in the brain, hemorrhage it, mess up heart “things”, etc.
By long exposure, I’m still “minutes” orders of magnitude, not hours.
So yeah, maybe not funny at all.
Only in our current culture where we go to even untruthful extremes to avoid hurting feelings would a headline be ‘Dropped iPhone CAUSES…
An honest headline would say, “Stupid woman nearly loses her life trying to recover a replaceable cellphone in impossible conditions”
An honest headline would say, “Stupid woman nearly loses her life trying to recover a replaceable cellphone in impossible conditions”
I wish wrist straps were more common with phone cases. So far, I’ve only seen cheap and unattractive cases that utilize them. They’d give us better peace of mind when I’m holding on to my phone for dear life—like above a ravine.
