We’ve read about people selling their organs to get their hands on an iPhone, but I’ve never before heard of a couple willing to face-off with a live alligator for one.
That’s the somewhat bizarre situation a Florida couple found themselves in recently, however, when 24-year-old Anthony Larrimore dropped his iPhone while snapping pictures of an alligator in Fort Myers — only for the ‘gator to take a shine to the smartphone.
The only problem? The iPhone had pictures of Larrimore’s 10-month-old son on it.
According to Larrimore’s partner Laciey D’Agostino, the problem began when they decided to try and livestream the experience over Facebook — only to accidentally drop the iPhone off the boardwalk and into the water. They tried using a stick to push it onto dry land, but the alligator followed the iPhone.
With a crowd forming to watch what was happening, the alligator put its snout over the iPhone, then made a “crazy, hissing-slash-grunting sound.” Finally the alligator backed off and Larrimore was able to reach down and retrieve his iPhone — only to find out it no longer switches on.
“Go figure,” he says.
Source: News-press
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
4 responses to “Man faces off with alligator to retrieve iPhone with baby pics”
iCloud
Sometimes natural selection takes a holiday.
There was no fight. There was no face off. He reached down and grabbed his phone.
Too dumb to use iCloud AND trying to send out over Facebook? I rooted for the croc.