...the sordid tale of an iPod, a student, and a buttload of money spent...
published in the Chronicle of Higher Education
A clogged sewer line beneath the Arts and Sciences Building at Santa Clara University had workers flummoxed for more than two months, says Eugene Bowers, an assistant maintenance supervisor. When a fiber-optic sewer-cam was put down the pipe, they discovered the culprit: a pink iPod. Workers tried to break the device into pieces using a sewer snake, says Mr. Bowers, but the sturdy iPod broke the cutting head. So a plumbing company blasted high-pressure water through the line, sending geysers from toilets on the second floor but dislodging the iPod. It landed near a sewer-cleanout opening, where workers speared the device with a sharpened piece of iron. The owner of the iPod, an unnamed Santa Clara student, confessed her role after hearing that Mr. Bowers had contacted Apple to trace the serial number. "She was apparently listening to it while she was doing her thing, and somehow the iPod got snagged and fell in," says Mr. Bowers. "She saw it in there and she thought, I'm not going to pick that up, so she flushed the toilet and it went down." He estimates that the ordeal cost the university as much as $7,000 to resolve. The student faces no discipline or fines.
3 comments:
I believe I know someone who dropped their cell phone in a subway train toilet. They then called the manufacturer to claim the warranty, saying it had been dropped and broken. As I understand it, they traced the signal to the subway train, asked her about it, and she confessed. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think it is at least based on the truth.
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Too many question marks in that last one.
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