Dropping Things On The Auckland Motorway..

NC · 27th September 2004, 09:37

Hiya,

Yesterday was a great day for me, I lost my Eftpos card at a party (I don't carry cash) and my phone fell out of my pocket on the Auckland Motorway in the fast lane and got hit by a car, a car, a car, a car, a truck, a car, a truck etc...

After panicing...

I went back and did the old indicate and go a long the barrier looking for it, I know this is bad and I could have got hit, but when you have 5 years of your life in your phone you knida do stupid shit. And I was sure that the police wouldnt have done a rolling RD block for a $1700 phone, which is now worth about 20 cents.

I was just wondering if anyone would do the same to rescue their SIM card? or anything else that they have dropped on the motorway?

PS...
Posh, Is that thread title better?

**Devil** · 27th September 2004, 09:57

Originally Posted by NC30_chick

I was just wondering if anyone would do the same to rescue their SIM card?

No, because my $330 phone backs up all my contacts and organiser to my PC.

What the hell have you got a $1700 phone for???

NC · 27th September 2004, 10:01

Originally Posted by Devil

What the hell have you got a $1700 phone for???

"Had"

Because I like shiney things and it "was" so kewl!

**Cajun** · 27th September 2004, 10:02

Nc30 i normal have everything safe so don't drop anything

**Ms Piggy** · 27th September 2004, 10:02

What a crap day mate!

Sympathies!

I wouldn't bother b/c it would be f*cked but then again I learnt the hard way that I should have a list of phone numbers elsewhere after taking my fav cell phone for a swim in the ocean. WHich reminds me...I really must do that!!

**MikeL** · 27th September 2004, 10:14

Well, I have stopped twice on a motorway to retrieve things. Once was my scarf which blew off. It was easy to find. More difficult was my work keys and ID card which were attached to a length of cord and in my jacket pocket which I had forgotten to zip up. Only discovered they were missing when I stopped 10 minutes later. Retraced my route, riding verrrrry slowly - like looking for a needle in a haystack. Did the whole route twice and on the second pass saw the cord lying on the rh side. Couldn't believe my luck. Parked the bike in the emergency stopping strip and went over to pick it up only to find that the keys and ID card were not on the cord. Walked back and forth for about 200m but never found them. Complete mystery.
I was glad no cops came along because I suspect there might be some regulation or other prohibiting this sort of thing. To me at least, losing my keys was some sort of emergency... The thing that made it a bit less dangerous was that it happened on the south-western motorway (going to the airport) mid-afternoon on Sunday when the traffic was light.
I keep the replacement keys in my pants pocket now. Even then I almost managed to lose them again when the keys made a hole in the pocket lining. Fortunately my pants were tucked into my boots. Perhaps I should wear the cord round my neck...

NC · 27th September 2004, 10:23

Originally Posted by Celtic_Sea_lily

What a crap day mate!

Sympathies!

I wouldn't bother b/c it would be f*cked but then again I learnt the hard way that I should have a list of phone numbers elsewhere after taking my fav cell phone for a swim in the ocean. WHich reminds me...I really must do that!!

I was sure that I had to take it to Voda for insurace things too. You know because being hit by lots of cars and coming out of mt pocket at 130kms, they might be able to fix it...

**Mongoose** · 27th September 2004, 10:33

Originally Posted by NC30_chick

I was sure that I had to take it to Voda for insurace things too. You know because being hit by lots of cars and coming out of mt pocket at 130kms, they might be able to fix it...

Love the optimism "they might be able to fix it...".

Crickey girl you wanna look after your crap a bit better than that. By the way, cell phones are a good way of breaking ribs in a spill

**toads** · 27th September 2004, 10:42

my sympathies, I crashed my computer, and most of a years info, cos I failed ot back up, there's no excuse in my case, just utter hypocrisy, I am always advising people ot back up their data, ( I'm a computer tech) but fail to do it myself, grrr, anyway, its a bloody long slow process to get the stuff back, largely video/sound drivers and boring but essential crap like that to laboriously download at painfully slow net speeds.
As for stopping on a motorway to retrieve a munted cellphone, I think not, I have dropped stuff out of my pocket before and Pete has been good enough to stop and pick it up, but usually when I lose stuff I have no idea when or where I've lost it, I lose keys regularly,

**ManDownUnder** · 27th September 2004, 11:10

In
Sure
Ants

Claim it - chances are good it'll be covered by one of the covers you have (either vehicle, or household contents).

And yes, I have to admit I tend to agree with the previous sentiments... a $1700 phone???

WOW

Good luck and sorry to hear about the crap day
MDU

**Zapf** · 27th September 2004, 11:15

Originally Posted by NC30_chick

Hiya,

Yesterday was a great day for me, I lost my Eftpos card at a party (I don't carry cash) and my phone fell out of my pocket on the Auckland Motorway in the fast lane and got hit by a car, a car, a car, a car, a truck, a car, a truck etc...

After panicing...

I went back and did the old indicate and go a long the barrier looking for it, I know this is bad and I could have got hit, but when you have 5 years of your life in your phone you knida do stupid shit. And I was sure that the police wouldnt have done a rolling RD block for a $1700 phone, which is now worth about 20 cents.

I was just wondering if anyone would do the same to rescue their SIM card? or anything else that they have dropped on the motorway?

PS...
Posh, Is that thread title better?

ermm that sucks. here is an idea if you haven't thought of it. If you keep your vodaphone bills, you'll have all the numbers that you have rang in that month. At lease you can ring them up again and ask who is on the other end

**ManDownUnder** · 27th September 2004, 11:16

Originally Posted by Zapf

ermm that sucks. here is an idea if you haven't thought of it. If you keep your vodaphone bills, you'll have all the numbers that you have rang in that month. At lease you can ring them up again and ask who is on the other end

Good idea!

Vodaphone will also probably be able to reprint the bills too if wanted... likely for a fee though
MDU

**Krayy** · 27th September 2004, 11:57

For 1700 bucks I would expect the damn thing to find its own way home!

**Holy Roller** · 27th September 2004, 12:04

Had a mate drop a 6x6 shed on the North Western dismanteled of course. Trailer got a flat and the wind turned it over. managed to get a truck and reload it before any unwanted attention arrived. It took over an hour to load the truck and recover the dropped load plenty of time to have been approached and given a bill for the pleasure of disrupting the flow of the traffic.

fftopic:

I hate it when things fall out of the pockets. I brought my daughter an inner tube for he bike but when I got home it had gone, retraced my ride and did not find it brought another one from another shop. On the way home saw it on the road, recovered it, but numerous tyres had done their best to render it useless.

**Krayy** · 27th September 2004, 12:19

My brother and I were in a cage coming out of Bulls once, and were (quite frankly) stunned to see this bloke in a Ute enter a driveway of the main drag at a good clip, depositing his dog at the gate. Maybe it was trained to get the mail, but the fact that he was doing ~50 and the dog landed in the ditch was a bit harsh.