Bear ambushes hiker, attacks her iPhone instead
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Flickr user Kyle Simourd)
Bears have some awfully funny inclinations. Back in 2004 there were all those wackynews stories about the bear who'd downed three dozen cans of beer at a campground and proceeded to pass out.
But this one takes the cake: this summer, when Vermont hiker Kris Rowley was approached by a bear and it kept following her, it proved more interested in chowing down on her iPhone.
Rowley, who serves as Vermont's chief information security officer, tells CIO.com: "In a semi-panic, I threw the phone at the bear."
The bear proceeded to ignore Rowley and started clawing at the iPhone instead, CIO.com explains. Rowley used that as her chance to make a hasty exit. She returned two days later to get her iPhone back--bringing along a baseball bat for defense--and found it still there, but chewed and scratched up to the point where she couldn't use it anymore.
Unfortunately, the Genius Bar support team at her local Apple Store wouldn't take "a bear ate my iPhone" as a legitimate excuse to get a new one on the house: Rowley had to pay full price for a replacement.
Maybe that would've been different if she'd brought the bear along with her. Just a thought.
Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and brewing cappuccinos. E-mail Caroline. 
Funny humor, but crappy comparison and analogy.
What are you talking about anti-human? Apple/ATT and Verizon are monopolizing the cell phone industry- I agree with Splashes that government socialized phones would be better off- no roaming charges anywhere, always service everywhere, just raise the price of the devices and it can still be capitalist -- you're anti-american if you don't let someone argue their opinion - thanks for being an easy target, you're like FISH in a barrel - dont
this is a joke, right?
Yes, CIO, as opposed to Ranger.
Sorry.... couldn't resist.... It's like the new "That's what she said"
I have never "got" one of his posts.
Insert Stephen Colbert joke here. The Great Bear Uprising of 2012 will include bears attacking people for their iPhones.
Oh yeah Apple is screwing other iPhone customers other ways, if you take Yoga or some other exercise class and you sweat and use an iPhone, it turns dark and says you have water damaged your iPhone and thus voided your warranty. Thus you would have to buy a new iPhone. Apple set the water sensors too high on purpose to make more money.
Now you know why I never bought an iPhone and most likely never will.
F you AT&T!!!
Most marketing managers would happily pay $300 for that story.
- by wotten-1 October 14, 2009 5:05 PM PDT
- I'd lay odds it was either a Blackberry or SamSung bear ...
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