Publicity Stunt of the Week: ten bizarre phone insurance claims • Reg Hardware

Here you go:

Inserted into a cow’s vagina

Dropped in the bog during defecation – a perennial favourite, this; or should that be ‘perianal’? ‘arf, ‘arf

Broken after being used as a sex toy

Stolen by an aggressive seafront seagull

Stolen by an aggressive safari park monkey

Blown aloft by fireworks

Broken when hurled at an inconstant boyfriend

Dropped out of a tree while being used to illegally film a pop concert

Baked in a birthday cake

Dropped over the side of a cruise ship

via Publicity Stunt of the Week: ten bizarre phone insurance claims • Reg Hardware.

The hoarder’s dilemma, or ‘Why can’t I throw anything away?’ • Reg Hardware

This is my problem with cables, old Apple gadgets and other electronics. VHS video player anyone?

“Now, I’ve not used it for 25 years but it still works and I have a vague notion that a science museum might want to acquire it one day, and that’s why I haven’t disposed of it yet. This symbolises my problem: in wanting to be zen, I am horrified by modern disposable culture. The promise of recycling isn’t enough when something isn’t actually broken beyond repair.”

via The hoarder’s dilemma, or ‘Why can’t I throw anything away?’ • Reg Hardware.