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iPhone vs London Taxi

ouch!!! iPhone 0 - London Taxi 1
Joshwar said:
I basically lost the phone on a night out, and it was returned to me by a taxi driver who said he ran over it by accident...
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mmm.. I wonder if he would been this honest if he had found it before he ran over it 🙄

ucfgrad93 said:
How in the world was he able to determine it belonged to you?
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same question here...😕

sorry to hear about this, hopefully you will be able to get a new one or at least get it fixed...
 
stewartws said:
Dude,

No points for you. If you are going to quote a movie line get it right.

"Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it."
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Lol! Sorry...It's been a looong time since I've seen it and I was just posting from memory. 😀
 
Like I said, the phone still works so my friend rang it constantly until somebody answered..
 
The coolest part of this story is the phone still works!

Casing can get easily repaired. I went to a store out in Asia where cell phone repairing and unlocking for second hand (aka used) phones is all they did. You can see workers opening up the case up like it is no big deal. I see Nokia N80's being opened up like it is surgery. Breaking the housing is just cosmetic changes. Being at that entire floor of broken and repaired phones gave me a better perspective about how the inside and proper functioning is what mattered more.

I remember seeing a video of a Nintendo 64 being smashed and burned. It still booted up and worked! The GameCube also beat out the PS2 and Xbox in a durability test.

Glass is glass. It can be replaced. Good luck next time, man.
 
Even when it got smashed like that, you didn't lose its guts. You didn't lose its true talent. It still works. Like meeting new people. It is what inside that counts at the end.

Imagine if a random emergency from family happened to you today? You could still try to make and receive a call.

It is like having a car in the middle of nowhere. Give me the car with a smashed bumper that works over a prettier one with no engine or broken transmission. Without the guts actually working, you will never get somewhere when you really need to.
 
Savor said:
Even when it got smashed like that, you didn't lose its guts. You didn't lose its true talent. It still works. Like meeting new people. It is what inside that counts at the end.

Imagine if a random emergency from family happened to you today? You could still try to make and receive a call.

It is like having a car in the middle of nowhere. Give me the car with a smashed bumper that works over a prettier one with no engine or broken transmission. Without the guts actually working, you will never get somewhere when you really need to.
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That's a pretty bad analogy. If you had a Ferrari, and then a monster truck ran over it, but it still worked--actually screw that. I don't even know what you're saying. Should he not get it replaced because it still works?
 
Bad Taxi! That sucks big time. I'm surprised it still works. Looking at the picture, one would think that the battery would have been squished when the bad taxi ran over it. Hope Apple helps you out with a new one.

Take a quality picture of it the way it looks now and produce one of those motivational posters with it; "It only take a split second to have your life shattered" or "Think Before You Make Your Next Move". Maybe you could make some money. Good luck on the fix...
 
I was really impressed, all the guys in the store were shocked - I thought they were going to shout at me if I'm honest. They looked like I had inflicted harm on a small child.
 
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