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- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -2/+69I am sooooo glad it was a Blackberry not an Iphone.
"Need to save your life? There's an app for that." - caboose20, on 06/29/2009, -3/+52Good thing it's wasn't an iPhone 3GS. Then it would have overheated, melted the ice and killed the guy.
- Zantive, on 06/30/2009, -5/+36I highly doubt that a half-inch device was enough to keep him wedged in the ice.
- dvsbastard, on 06/30/2009, -1/+25He must have been wearing some extremely tight ski gear for the phone to protrude far enough to make a difference...
"Stupid sexy Flanders..." - wishihadatwitch, on 06/30/2009, -3/+22in other news another skier using an iphone 3gs managed to survive falling of the side of a cliff when his ego got stuck holding him there he was stuck for... well.. forever because the iphone user thought he needed no guide since he has a compass app... his body was found early this morning.
- ml4rocky, on 06/29/2009, -8/+23I always knew the Blackberry was good for something, somewhere.
- zlguocius, on 06/30/2009, -1/+16I call shenanigans. If the Blackberry hadn't been there, he would have just gotten stuck a few inches lower than where he actually got stuck, at worst. No way would he have fallen to his death.
- Duffle, on 06/30/2009, -1/+14It's like I'm wearing nothing at all!
- chickenloco, on 06/30/2009, -4/+14So he's trying to say that the phone alone, for two hours, held him in the ice? I don't believe it. Most likely, the ice narrowed enough where he just couldn't fit further down.
- fbass2000, on 06/30/2009, -1/+10yes in this case, the thinner iPhone can kill you
- garywoo, on 06/30/2009, -1/+10Feels like i'm wearing nothing at all... nothing at all... nothing at all...
- dowelly, on 06/30/2009, -0/+8That's nothing. My grandfather was saved from execution by the British by an old whistle. He was facing a firing squad and kept the whistle in his breast pocket, and all the bullets hit it and bounced off.
Unfortunately, they just reloaded and shot him again in the head. - PhonicUK, on 06/30/2009, -0/+7Someone wrote the app, but Apple refused to publish it. They said the morbid suggestions that a life might end by not having this application where unsuitable for the friendly appearance of their app store.
- bfogarty27, on 06/30/2009, -1/+7RAmen
- dikaiosyne, on 06/30/2009, -3/+9He just wants to build up a story to sell it on ebay....then buy an iphone.
- ninerskeet, on 06/30/2009, -1/+7nothing at all... nothing at all... nothing at all...
- evictedangel, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4What saved his ass was the phone that his mountain guide used to call for rescue.
- skyjis6, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4If he had an iPhone it would have screamed "Crevasse ahead!" in the voice of someone close to him with a real time distance countdown. that's what mine does...
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4Holy *****, it says his nose fell off.
- anothertruth, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3Too bad they reattached his nose...not enough human horn on the market these days.
- r0ji, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4Cool story, bro.
- palehorse864, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4Twitter: BRB plunging to my doom, LOLs.
- smoger, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2this is pure BS. first they say the phone held him for 2 hours. then they say he was wedged so tight the ice had to be drilled away. why wouldn't they just remove the phone from his pocket to free him?
- jcsoc, on 06/30/2009, -2/+4probably got snagged by the RIM
- GamerX, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3Michael, is it you?
- amanilaenvelope, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3Where's that part?
From the article: "However, his mountain guide made a distress call and rescue workers came to cut him out of the ice." - swoopdog, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2it's called reading the article not the title and sentence on digg,
- atarijedi, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2The crevasse could have widen after the point he got stuck, like an hour glass, who knows!
- CaviMike, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2The way I heard it was it got stuck in a crack itself, this story ruined it for me.
- maffiou, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3Yeah, what an infamous plug of a headline ! If it had said the iphone people would have gone mental...
I use my blackberry as a door stop... Saving my life, (a little bit at a time !) - borez, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2What a hexcentric use of a phone.
/climbing joke - mannypacmans, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2another comercial
- GamerX, on 06/30/2009, -0/+11. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou ...
you're welcome - swoopdog, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1yup we all just want proprietary pieces of trendy steve jobbs ass candy.
- yocouchdigga, on 06/30/2009, -1/+2my coworkers and I got a laugh out of this, thanks.
- rpl0001, on 06/30/2009, -3/+4Amen.
- pikelet, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1They were in too much of a hurry to find something they could use to call fakestory and didn't read the last eight words in this sentence:
"Despite the accident, his Blackberry still worked and he used it to call his wife during the 10 days he spent in hospital." - DrDabbles, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1I wonder what would happen if I wrote LiverApp.
- d686, on 06/30/2009, -2/+3WTF? The Telegraph, a reputable newspaper, ran with this story? Weird.
- Elijah17, on 06/30/2009, -2/+3I'm an iPhone user, but that is still ***** badass!
Dugg... - PuterPrsn, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1It would have been wedged against him - you don't just slide it out at that point.
- Plower, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Maybe I'm too old to read stories at 4 in the morning. Oops
- crossmr, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1read the article:
"half-inch wide handset in his breast pocket caused him to get wedged in a crack of ice, stopping him from falling further."
""Fortunately, the extra inches of the Blackberry were enough to block the fall.""
first they state half an inch, then they state inches. Which is it? - crossmr, on 06/30/2009, -1/+2""Fortunately, the extra inches of the Blackberry were enough to block the fall."" the whole half inch of it..
- lydiasky, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1It'd be cooler if the Blackberry told him "cliff ahead, do not go forward". Now that's your phone looking out for you.
- palehorse864, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1Goto 10.
- astrotrain, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1Wouldn't that "we have an Alp for that"?
- banditboydavid, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1Why, sounds like a great selling point. It can save lives and still work. If only he had the twitterberry application on his phone and then he could have twittered about it while it was happening.
- ramalingamn, on 06/30/2009, -0/+0soon we will hear voices from hell or from heaven through iPhone or blackberry.
- BrianJMitchell, on 06/30/2009, -0/+0really? how big is this guy
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