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Dropped iPhone Causes Woman to Be Trapped Upside Down in Rock Crevice for Hours
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If you’re going to say that, you might as well go all the way and talk about the current model that’s being used.
It was stupid no matter how YOU try to spin it. Dropping the phone was unfortunate, the though she could retrieve it was ludicrous, the fact she attempted said retrieval was plain stupid, the getting wedged in the crevasse was just a logically foreseen outcome by any reasonably intelligent person.
I’m sure your friend didn’t miss the step on purpose. Did this person attempt retrieval with intent… absolutely. Big difference!
Like I said in a previous post, we have a “stupidity law” where I live. People pay the cost of rescues for stupid acts, disobeying off limit signage, etc.
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Now that would be a story.
Terrifying. This could have easily been a story about a spider, snake, or koala attack.
I am surprised it took 5 pages of comments for someone to say this. You may collect your award from the admin.
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It was Laguna so not exactly close to emergency services and they forget to mention the lack of mobile phone coverage so apparently it took a while for the emergency services to be called.
Her friends went to a location that had mobile coverage and called 000 (Australian version of 911, 112, 999 etc.), the location that Matilda fell into has no mobile coverage.
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actually a bit more as Matilda has not paid off the phone she lost so the amount is partial cost of old phone + cost of new one.
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not according a TV Life Insurance ad I heard again today...
"we will pay your family out if you die". if? really? they must be hoping many customers live (and pay premiums) forever.
language is being mangled daily. often for headlines. clickbait ones.
even our national (Australian) tv broadcaster, ABC, was complaining about record low fertility rates in the headline article when they meant birth rates.
She was not able to retrieve her iPhone. LOL
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
Not the best title, I agree, but it made me curious. And this site, like all news sites, talks about some more important stuff and some less important stuff.
Now, I don't know where you live but here in (*sigh*) Italy, even the greatest newspapers are now cheap blogs full of clickbait, because they couldn't survive in any other way now that people get their news from Whatsapp, Reddit, Facebook, TikTok and so on.
MacRumors looks like a very clean source to me, even if they deal with topics that are just a hobby or a passion for most readers. And it's 100% free.
I'm very ok with them filling their blog with some curiosity or less relevant stuff when there are no "important" news to cover. I'd be less happy if the quality of their main articles lowered but that absolutely isn't the case. So I cannot understand why people seem ready to criticize this site as if they were peer-reviewing a medical journal.
Read stuff that is relevant to you, ignore the rest. Engagement is exactly what makes the less relevant news so important, you'll have to try and ignore it if you want less of it.
i learned from my boy scouting days that rocks - especially wet rock are slippery as ice
people especially tourist should be aware
on another note i remember seeing a movie years ago of a man trapped smiliar and had to manually cut his own arm off to get out of a rock crevice
people especially tourist should be aware
on another note i remember seeing a movie years ago of a man trapped smiliar and had to manually cut his own arm off to get out of a rock crevice
I could see her going into a crevice for a foldable, but an iPhone, no way. iPhones are mid-tier price wise anymore. Definitely not worth it. 
Glad she's OK but people spend too much time worrying about their phone
This is nightmare fuel!
If she had an Apple Watch on it could have detected her fall possibly! It's turned on for me after a couple of spills and tried to call emergency services.
If she had an Apple Watch on it could have detected her fall possibly! It's turned on for me after a couple of spills and tried to call emergency services.
Reading your explanation makes this even more funnier.
It’s the fact ppl are still trying to justify her stupidity. Just call it what it is.
it’s like that time my friend lost his phone in a pool and he couldn’t swim but chose to try and go get it. It was stupid. Not only was the phone destroyed but he nearly drowned lmao
If she never bothered to try and retrieve the phone she wouldn’t need the Apple Watch in the first place.
It’s not like no one knew she was down there. She voluntarily put herself in that situation lol. It wasn’t an accidental fall.
She did volunteraily put herself in that position, but she did slip and fall. I'm with you, I would have taken one look down that crevice and would have taken the L on the phone.
No, this is what the poor schmucks will cause the poor schmucks to do. It's called personal responsibility; I suggest everyone give it a try. I'm sorry this woman had to go through all this, and hope she has a speedy and full recovery, but this is on her. Not Apple, not Tim Cook.
most likely for the data/content, not the 800. I always fear dropping in the sea when sailing in countries where iCloud uploads take forever so you are carrying content that isn't backed up. I'd pay a diver more than $800 to go get it if I dropped it.
