Re: bouncing phone

On 3 Apr 2025 at 22:41:19 BST, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
 

On 2025-04-03 03:43, badgolferman wrote:

Last Saturday I went on a motorcycle ride with my friend.  On the way
home I told him to lead and I would follow from this point on.  We were
on a four-lane highway separated by trees in the middle and were
traveling 80mph when suddenly I saw something small and black bouncing
on the ground between us.  I barely caught a glimpse of it and
suspected it might be a mobile phone.
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I tried flashing my lights and honking at my friend so he would slow
down but he didn't notice, so I was forced to go even faster to catch
up to him.  When I pulled up alongside him, I motioned him to pull
over.  I asked him if he had lost his phone and after checking it for
it he indicated indeed he had lost it.  We doubled back 3-4 miles and
turned around back into the same direction we had been traveling when
he dropped his phone.
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Eventually I noticed two black items on the side of the road and pulled
over.  He got off his motorcycle and walked over to pick up the pieces.
A few seconds later my phone rang with his name coming up on the
display!  His phone had survived bouncing across the road at 80mph and
potentially other cars rolling over it!  There were two pieces because
one of them was the protective case which had finally come off.
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Later on I asked him if he had any damage to the phone.  He told me his
Pixel 9 Pro had no damage and that the Peak Design case had some
abrasions on the shoulder.  Nothing more.  I'm still quite impressed
that the case absorbed so much force from the repeated impacts of
bouncing on the road and that the phone survived the whole ordeal.

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Do you have a point?

 Well, *I'm* impressed.