“U.S. farmer Kevin Whitney thought his iPhone was lost for good when it fell into a grain elevator last year,” Justin Juozapavicius reports for The Associated Press. “Eight months later, his phone was returned unscathed after it was found in Japan.”
“Whitney lost his phone in October after it slipped out of his shirt pocket as he was unloading grain from a truck into a silo holding roughly 290,000 bushels of grain,” Juozapavicius reports. “‘I knew it was lost forever and there was no retrieving the thing,’ said Whitney, 53.”
“In late May, Whitney received a phone call from Eric Slater with the Zen-Noh Grain Corporation,” Juozapavicius reports. “‘I get a call from a guy who works with this grain company in Convent, Louisiana, saying a guy at a feed mill in Japan found the phone,’ Whitney said. Slater said he charged the phone and scrolled through to find Whitney’s pictures and called him. Whitney was shocked the phone made it through such an ordeal in pristine condition.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Ashiya Joe” for the heads up.]