When Kris Rowley told a Vermont Apple store Genius that "A bear ate my iPhone", there was little doubt wild animal mauling is covered under the one year iPhone warranty. It was a hiking trip that first placed Rowley in the path of a young bear who curiously pursued her until the encounter became dangerously uncomfortable.
As the bear quickly moved within 30 feet, Rowley did the unthinkable, "In a semi-panic, I threw the phone at the bear," Rowley says. As the bear pawed at her beloved iPhone Kris made a stealthy escape. She returned to the scene of the mauling two days later, armed with a baseball bat only to find her iPhone abandoned, horrifically scarred by teeth and claw marks.
Wishful thinking led Rowley to her local Apple store hoping a Genius would reward her courage in the face of certain death with an iPhone replacement. Apple said; "Not gonna happen!"
"I had to buy a new phone or forfeit my contract if I canceled, so I purchased a new phone at full price," Rowley told Tom Kaneshige from CIO.com. "While saddened about my mangled iPhone, better the phone than me."
With two billion App Store downloads and counting, the iPhone has an app for just about anything. Except for grizzly bear encounters. At least not yet.
[via Gizmodo]
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