Reason To Have A Distinct Ringtone? So You Can Find Your Mobile Phone At The Dump
from the that's-not-my-normal-ringtone dept
A guy in Aspen accidentally dropped his mobile phone into the piles of leaves he was raking up, and scooped up the phone and sent it off to the dump... But, amazingly, he was reunited with the phone by calling it and hearing it ring in the piles and piles of recyclables. Apparently, it took about half an hour of dialing/listening/sifting. Of course, there are times when you wonder if it wouldn't just be smarter to go get another phone...![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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I bet that was the only one so it didn't matter what the ring tone was or if it was distinct or not.
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half an hour?
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He'd have been buggered if he had it on vibrate only mode... :P
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Nah, he'd just have to be more patient - sit quietly until the seagulls all settled on the landfill, ring it and see where they all took off from suddenly.
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Reasons to have.......
Reason To Have such stupid news on techdirt whose title did not matches with the content?
Reason To Have such stupid news on techdirt whose title did not matches with the content and sending it to its thousands of loyal newsletter subscribers?
Reason To Have such stupid news on techdirt whose title did not matches with the content and sending it to its thousands of loyal newsletter subscribers for wasting their time?
Reason To Have such stupid news on techdirt whose title did not matches with the content and sending it to its thousands of loyal newsletter subscribers for wasting their time and losing credibility on Techdirt updates?
Reasons for Telling this to Mike Masnick for the sake of all above mentioned reasons that there is no reason to send such reasons on newsletter and there is no such reason to think that "Too Much Free Time" does not provides any reason for "Waste of Time".
:-)
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ple'z don't feel bad about my comments....it was written with the same mood you having while quoting this story...:-)
anyways...I am really sorry, if i offended you...
I don't feel anything wrong about the story. The only thing, I didn't liked was the Title
"Reason To Have A Distinct Ringtone? So You Can Find Your Mobile Phone At The Dump"
I really don't understand the connection. Did the guy got his ph. back coz' he was having a different ringtone :-)
ha ha ha .... i would say, the poor guy got the phone back coz' he was having the ringtone facility in his phone.... :-)
never mind...this was really nice and funny story that made my day.......
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Obviously his staff normally get to the goodies first and claim it must have been compacted already >;-)
(apologies for the cheap shot poking fun at the people who make our trash go away, but cheap is how I feel)
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Of course there could also be some candid photos or texts on the phone that he didn't want to fall into the wrong hands... A lot of people are guilty of that these days too!
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being stuck in a back room with 20+ other programmers with no land line. When a phone it rings it is important to know that someone really wants to talk to at least one of us!
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Think of the music!
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Because trash likes to call each other...
Wait wait no, the pieces of trash were calling and texting each other right?
Or maybe you really meant that everyone's ringtone sounds like trash, but this guy's was unique. Haha I get it now, quite funny.
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Must've been a fresh battery
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Sniff, sniff
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How many ring?
A better question might be "How many different phones ring when his number is dialed?"
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