right on bro!

On Friday, I was leaving the house to go run some errands and decided to go check my mail.  I set my iPhone and my shopping list on top of the car, went out to the mailbox, and then got in the car and left.

When I left the bank I got into my car and realized I’d forgotten about the phone.  It wasn’t on the car by that time, of course, so I drove back to the house very slowly, looking at the opposite lane for any sign of the phone.  Got home, didn’t find it, then decided to drive back out.  Found it about a block away from my house, face down, with a big tire mark on top of it.

The phone was burning hot (it was 100 degrees out), but oddly enough, it was still on.   It was inside an Xtreme Mac Tuffwrap case, and once I took it off, the body actually looked normal.  The glass had major scratches in it but it turned out to be the plastic Invisible Shield I put on it - once I peeled it away, the glass was actually perfectly fine.  The LCD was smeared and damaged, but legible.  Texting, checking email, and Wifi worked, but then it wouldn’t let me answer calls and started acting funny.

I took it to the Apple store at Town Center here in Vegas (do you know they have two Apple stores within like 3 miles of each other?) and got a replacement for $200 (not a 3G, they were sold out and I didn’t want to wait for new stock or sign another contract).

Anyway, that’s what happens to the iPhone when it gets run over by a car.  I washed the Tuffwrap case (the grease and tire marks came off fine) and put it on the new phone, and I’m back to normal.  I think this phone has better battery life than the old phone.