Entries from September 2006

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September 17, 2006

My Motorola V557 cell phone pitched off the boat into Lake Hartwell (SC) in about 9 feet of water. One of the more aquatic members of our party dove down and recovered it after about 5 minutes.
I removed the battery and then banged the phone against a towel vigorously so as to remove as much [...]

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