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Original story: http://laptopmag.com/Features/iPhone-Jumper.htm

And the fanboy of the year award goes to.....

He must bed that phone at night, for someone to be so stupid! I mean I like my iPhone but seriously, if its insured dont be last action hero....

So now we know the real reason why those 80 women were jumping in front of trains in the UK

Yeah, if I dropped a phone down and there wasn't a train coming, I would definitely jump down there to grab it. It'd be much more of a hassle. Besides the third rail is generally opposite the platform. So it was an iPhone, big deal.

LOL @ what fake Steve has to say about him: http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/01/incredible-j ...

There wasn't a train coming, so what's the problem?

i have seen a few people in the tracks to retrieve a dropped item. really not that big of a deal.

Dear Wired Magazine
Frogger was never on NES, you should be ashamed to call yourselves nerds.

Aren't iPhones just to die for?

If you were standing there looking at your iPhone on the train tracks and there was no train coming, you might think about it.

This man must never go anywhere near the grand canyon.

I've personally jumped down there to retrieve a frisbee, a hackey sack, and a metrocard (I needed the transfer). This is no big deal.

i wonder if he was watching a David Lynch movie when he dropped it...

I would never jump down there, I'm not running my risk of tripping and having a surprise encounter with the electric rail. I'd do the smart thing adn notify the station manager =/

I haven't dropped anything on the tracks (yet) but I really do think if I dropped something i would just hop down on the tracks and pick it up if i didn't see a train coming. It don't see the big deal. Rats really don't attack people and the third rail is on the other side of the tracks.

I once jumped onto a subway track to save a subway.

Is the iPhone that great? Geeze I was thinking about buying an Eee PC, but after reading this I think I might grab an unlocked iPhone. Crazy.

If you read he unlocked it apple would not have replaced it. I know its not the smartest thing but who wants to pay another 400 for a new iphone.

uh if you dropped $500 cash in the same place im assuming everyone here would have done the same thing. Its a an expensive piece of electronics, I don't really feel like it has anything to do with the iPhone specifically..

This makes Digg ?

People complain how its stupid to hear news about stupid ***** when there are real problems out there and yet, this gets voted up.
No wonder people love all those Britney, Paris and Jamie Lynn stories..
Diggers are no different than the middle aged women at checkout counters buying the latest People or Star magazine.
Just fantasize iPhones instead of latest celebrity gossip..

The best part is that trains had already passed over the phone causing it no damage. If he had asked for help he would have got his undamaged phone safely at the expense of about twenty-five minutes of his precious time.
Actually...doesn't the iPhone have a built-in automated self-retrieval device that sprouts spindly, shiny little legs like the spider things from Minority Report and scampers back to it's owner? No? Well for $600 it should.

The man was heard screaming "MY BABY! MY BABY!" before he jumped into the third rail...

whoa i worked with this guy before. he's a cool dude

This is why we shouldn't have expensive things...

its not really a big deal... ive seen people hop onto the tracks to pick something up a bunch of times. you can tell when the train is coming, some stations have alarms to warn you before they do. the rats are huge but, what are the odds youll get attacked by a pack of those? and the third rail is clearly visible and avoidable since its opposite the platform edge... hopping off a four foot ledge for a few hundred bucks worth of toy hardly seems extreme...

why was it necessary to mention that it was an iphone in the title? to attract fanboys or apple haters? or just to get it to diggs front page?

he's not crazy, he just wanted to save the down payment on his car

Silly man. He should have paid a kid to get it for him.

haha i got mugged 2 weeks ago in brooklyn, the guy took my iphone and i chased him.
i caught him and got my iphone back =D

i dont blame him.... it had a NES emulator... i would have done the same..

Well, if he'd already bought two...

"Rezvani told Laptop Mag that somebody had defecated on the line."
If it's safe enough for someone to go down there and take a *****, I don't see why it isn't safe enough for him to run down to grab his phone.

Hehe,
he will probably by the updated one after macworld lol

how is this news?

How is this news?

Yeah, I live in NY, this is not all that uncommon an occurrence, I've seen people jump onto the tracks to retrieve things of far lesser value than an iPhone...

Big whoop.I dropped a few cds in the train tracks before, and went in for it. It's really not a big deal to jump in.

good thing he didn't get tasered by security.

Imagine Shia LeBeouf doing this.
[Train coming] No no nonnononononononononononono nonononononono nonononononononoo nononononononononononononononono!

Maybe he an important contact in that phone...

What a moron. what a moron for having an iphone in the first place.

Maybe he was hallucinating and thought he was Frogger.

proof that apple owners are morons.