Blackberry Saves Man From Falling 200 Metres (And Dying)

@Hi, I'm God: never before have I been so thoroughly defeated. It almost feels like Santa died.

ReynaldoRiv

Hmm, so this guy thinks that the cell phone saved his life?? I'm fairly certain based on the info provided, that he would have been just as stuck without that phone.

HyperDrunk

let's also give credit to his strong ski jacket - it was the combo of the too that gave him a type of - what do those climbing freaks call those things that wedge into a crack in the wall? well, that's kinda what happened here in a way. fortunate guy, wasn't his time apparently.

banmojo

@nutbastard: I think E. Hubbard said it best: "Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive."

@tande04: haha, classic

@mcgrathjo345: you're a douchebag that needs a good old fashioned banning.

@tande04: TRUE. but this is a gadget blog, so on this site, the blackberry saved his life. On a fashion blog, his thick winter jacket saved his life.

lltaeho

He was using the Bold to keep warm.

Stupid overheating issues....

grubish1

This article got me thinking that Panasonic rally needs to get cracking on a Toughphone before someone else does.

Oh, no problem Panasonic. Just put my name in the code somewhere, that'll do fine.

@Act Now and get a 4th Celebrity Death Free!: Lite: My blackberry survived a drop down a concrete staircase. Unfortunately it meet its untimely end when my belt clip broke and someone stepped full force on the LCD.

Psychicsword

My HTC Touch Pro could I guess save my life, that is if I weren't so fat I probably wouldn't slip through a crevasse. It's significantly thicker than that Blackberry.

MrEvil

@witnessx: Or:
Object in Front Pocket Saves Man

@i_prefer_sasquatch:
classic.

@i_prefer_sasquatch: hahahahaha

89macrunner

@Act Now and get a 4th Celebrity Death Free!: Lite: hahahahahahahah

I'm planning on getting armor adorned with opened Pres, so I can look like Shredder and command an army of ninjas.

jbrandonf likes pie. And Dreamcast

@misterWho3GS: Apple doesn't care about your life. Apple only wants your hard-earned cash.

nikaru

@davehimself: PSP GO?

Dilpickle1

@Hello Mister Walrus: Please explain to me how a helicopter rescues him from that position. It seems roping people down from above poses a much higher risk of jostling the snow/ice and dislodging him

You can't exactly hover the chopper underneath him to catch him.

Holy shit, my Blackberry saved me from the impact of a helicopter blade! What a smart phone!

The5thElephant

@tande04: yeah, especially since the blackberry purportedly held him in place for the 2 hours while he waited for rescuers. I just don't see that happening - or better said, I'm sure the blackberry itself didn't do much of anything here, since it would take a lot more than a blackberry's added width to support him for 2 hours. Even chest compression caused by breathing would change your overall width more than a phone in your breast pocket.

For a moment I thought "uhoh, my e71 is too thin" but then remembered I am fat and not in the alps.

se5k

I guess it's Type-A personality human email servers who can't chill enough to leave their email devices home when skiing.

dnheller

@mcgrathjo345: you maggot. if you had any parents, they deserve to die for not aborting you.

@Hi, I'm God: Good to know that you and your significant other will still be able to have intercourse, then.

Zanzan42

It's The Sun, who listens to them? It's the internet equivalent of gossip rags at the grocery store.

@ReynaldoRiv: he should have just grown some breasts or something

spannu

@cynep: I see what you did there. This is exactly why I own a blackberry. Exactly why.

valkilmerisawful

@nutbastard: Your wisdom just blew my mind.

valkilmerisawful

BS

livinzlife

John Cameron Swazy

geschmidtt

@tande04: I would put more of an emphasis on the shape of the human body. I mean, if we were the width of mice, and he somehow ended up in that situation, he would be screwed.

MDevonB

@123yik: I can't wait for the new batch of ads.

"Owning an iPhone could KILL YOU."

It's not bulky, it's a life-saving feature.

And then he slipped in the mud, ruining the very pants he was returning.

Everyone failed to mention that it was thanks to his man boobies that he got stuck.
Eat more chicken (with hormones). It will save your life one day.

@velazcod: I'm just hoping it makes my stock go up tomorrow.

tande04

its news like this that make me throw up a little.... Come on, what kind of money is involved on making something up like this? I want to get in this business, RIM, I'm available for hire, I've got GREAT IDEAS!

velazcod

@[www.nypost.com]

Sorry to quash your naive dreams. =(

@Krobar: Dammit. I was thinking of that solution to my comment as I wrote but I was hoping it'd be overlooked. You, sir, are a winner.

This could really just be titled: Cell Phone Saves Man...

witnessx

@Hi, I'm God: you're pretty fat :o

So Apple wants us all to die. I remember this the next time I here "Unbelievably Thin."

@ReynaldoRiv: No I mean hotel.

Maybe you're thinking of Les Stroud, the guy who isn't supported by a full film crew the whole time.

tande04

@Mandatory_Field:
Same thing happened to me. She would have succeeded too, were it not for my 12 gauge pointed straight at her. That and my kevlar vest... and hand cuffs... and ultra-low cut shorts.

cynep

Well, that's good and all, but this was pure luck. It could've been any phone with some extra junk in the trunk.

iPods (and presumably iPhones), on the other hand, will lunge out of your hand and into a wayward lightning bolt, sacrificing themselve to save you.

Lukasz Fabis

@TurboTexas:
damn you for thinking about B( o Y o )bies.. filthy minded perv.

/just like me. o/*\o Hi five, seeeksii time!

cynep

@mcgrathjo345:

we all deserve to die, if the test of time is indicative of some sort of cosmic justice.

Meh Blackberry

realsnickers

@tande04: What I CAN do, is use my phone's extraordinary bulk to bludgeon the attacking bear to death...

SkipperSam

He wouldn't have to brag about his BB if he were a she. Therefore I yet again prove that ( o Y o ) rule. Q.E.D.

cynep

@tande04: By hotel, I'm sure you mean sub arctic terrain.

ReynaldoRiv

@Hello Mister Walrus: That pun hurts my brain.

SkipperSam

@mcgrathjo345: isn't that just a teensy bit violent?

@maobao: Go home Billy, me and Little BB are gonna' go play catch.

@Hello Mister Walrus: I was wondering how the hell that's possible. I kinda wanna call bullshit since it's likely that if the BB was ALL that secured him, that jacket would've ripped apart under the weight of his body and gravity

ReynaldoRiv

Down a bottle of Viagra as you fall for a better save. For me that means I won't fall into any chasm under 5 feet wide. Ha.

It was really his secret breast implants, but he made up the blackberry story to cover up that he is a transexual.

TurboTexas

Take that Apple and your stupid, slim iPhone!

lauwersp

@[gizmodo.com]

TurboTexas

@maobao: Hahaha, his kid's conception is now no.2 in the memories he'd take toa desert island...

SkipperSam

My girlfriend tried to poke me in the kidney. She would have succeeded, were it not for my holster-mounted BlackBerry. Thanks RIM!

@Act Now and get a 4th Celebrity Death Free!: Lite: It's only a useful survival tool if you happen to fall between two rocks at the precise width necessary...

Although it is impressive it still worked!

SkipperSam

@tex210: Yeah, Blackberries are like giant bricks you carry in your pocket.

billc124

@4strinbass: No, McDonalds isn't going to give you a Blackberry just for running the drive thru.

tande04

@Hello Mister Walrus: My company doesn't issue them. Who do you work for, Skynet?

4strinbass

@tande04: Yeah, the human body and winter apparel both squish much more than the thickness of a blackberry, so unless he was completely compressed and thus already dead, the thickness of the blackberry probably did nothing.

yeti

@Act Now and get a 4th Celebrity Death Free!: Lite: you realize there have already been four deaths, right? Technically 6

Dilpickle1

@joandrade: Pfft I'm sure Bear is using an iPhone every night in whatever hotel they set him up in.

tande04

@mcgrathjo345: Many Blackberry users, like me, have them because companies issue them.

Hello Mister Walrus

If you own a blackberry you deserve to die

My couch gave way last night, I would have fallen all the way to the floor were it not for my blackberry in my pocket.

That and my huge cock.

i_prefer_sasquatch

How long until Bear Grylls takes a Storm into a storm?

joandrade

Preposterous! Bunk I say, bunk!

@123yik: you love that phone more then your child after a incident like that.

maobao

You see, big and bulky is good...

There's a picture on the web page illustrating what happened. Conclude what you will:

Hello Mister Walrus

Note to self. If you miraculously survive something remember to work a popular gadget into the survival story. Grazed by bullet? Bent down to pick up phone. Didn't get on a doomed plane? Missed flight due to forgotten PSP. Etc.

Moral of the story: never ski in Switzerland

Hm. I don't know if I buy it. Sounds a lot like the "iPod stopping bullet" stories.

Seems like there are any number of other reasons. I'd say the coat he was undoubtedly wearing would be a main factor.

Its a neat story none the less.

I'm just saying someone should send that one in to Mythbusters.

tande04

blackberry saves the day!...wow i never knew the thickness of the BBs actually have a use

123yik

That's it. The Blackberry is now the ultimate survival phone. But, theoretically you could use the pre tied to a stick to slice fish in half in the river if you needed to eat. Plus, it's on Sprint so you could use it's theft protection feature if you're being mugged.