It’s a little bit of tragedy when you lose an expensive phone, most likely after a crazy night of wandering around a nightclub but luckily we are wiser than to go without mobile phone insurance.
It seems we’re not the only ones but it turns out our fellow mobile phone losers were being even sillier than us when it came to misplacing their beloved smart phone.
Here are the top ten weirdest claims to ever come in the door of a mobile insurance provider.
1) A cattle farmer from Devon panicked when he accidently lost his new iPhone in the backend of one of his cows. You see, he was calving one of the heifers in the pitch dark and thought it would be a bright idea to use the torch on his phone to shed some light on the situation. Although the phone later emerged, it was clearly in no fit state to be used to play Angry Birds.
2) Inspired by The Great British Bake Off, a Nottingham woman had a hankering for a tasty cake. However, after whipping up the batter and placing the beauty into the oven, she realised she had added an extra ingredient… her Nokia 6303i!
3) An unsuspecting mobile phone user was minding her own business as she walked her dog down the beach in Wales, texting her boyfriend about their planned date later that evening. However, a sticky-fingered seagull saw her shiny Samsung Galaxy, and thought ‘Hey, I need a new phone.’ He swooped down and flew away with the gadget before the woman could even type LOL.
One seagull in Wales had his eye on the new Samsung Galaxy
4) A woman who clearly is without boundries, admitted that the vibration on her Blackberry had ceased working after she wore it out by using it as an adult toy. Yikes. Next time, just say you dropped it in a puddle, lady!
5) A builder damaged his phone when it slipped into the toilet. However, he didn’t think anything of the splash and did his business regardless. After fishing it out, he gave his insurance provider a buzz.
6) After spending an evening filming monkeys from his car in Longleat Safari Park, one man was shocked when a hairy hand reached in his sunroof and snatched his HTC One X. The monkey now holds the top score on Temple Run.
7) A couple who loved nothing more than a bit of Leonardo Di Caprio lost their phones as they reenacted the scene from the Titanic where the old lady drops the diamond into the ocean. What dopes.
One couple lost their phone while reenacting this scene from the film Titanic
8) Note to self: When you’re arranging a firework display, don’t leave your iPhone in the ‘blast zone’.
9) Most Blur fans loved the band enough to fork out the money for a ticket, but one miser had a better plan. Instead of paying to enter their Hyde Park show, he climbed up a high tree to film to goings on. Unfortunately, as the band started up his favourite tune, he got a little excited and dropped his smart phone.
10) In a fit of rage, one woman admitted that she had hurled her phone at her boyfriend’s skull, only to miss and smash it against the wall. Her excuse? He was doing the dirt!
Have you ever had an embarrassing mishap with a mobile phone?
