When we were kids, a box of cereal wasn't worth eating if there wasn't a free toy buried in the bottom somewhere. Emma Schweiger of Janesville Township, Wisconsin has sadly forgotten those days, reacting in horror not joy when she found an unexpected free prize in her bag of potato chips purchased at Aldi. While rummaging through the greasy fragments she uncovered an aged Nokia handset, bereft of charge, covered in cholesterol, and sporting a T-Mobile SIM card. No address book has yet been retrieved to identify the phone's owner, but the discolored disc on the back where an adhesive belt clip had been applied is a pretty strong clue to how it came to its carb-laden cocoon. As for Schweiger, she's pledged to always pour her bag of chips into a bowl prior to eating -- which happens to also be the easiest way to get the toy out of a particularly unappealing box of cereal.
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posted Mar 2nd 2009 10:07AM
EEWW... FACE GREASE FLAVORED CHIPS...
Actually, the easiest way to get a toy from a cereal box is to open the box from the bottom so the toy is right on top.
and how long do you thing it is going to take before a lawsuit is filed for damages ... or has it already been filed ... LOL
aha the nokia 6800, my very first phone!
Mine too! Ahhh. What a POS that was. Right before the cameraphone revolution and high resolution screens. Nokia fell WAY behind on that one. But it's a decent backup when my other crap phones take a crap.
Am I missing why this is a big deal?
This was just a cell phone... it wasn't rat dung, a razor blade, a human finger, or a culture of the Ebola virus bound for the CDC... it was a cell phone. It's about as exciting as finding a chip with a stunning resemblance to Darth Vader. Ok, it's a little out of the norm, but Storm Troopers aren't going to swarm in and abduct you if you eat their leader. Nor is anything extreme going to happen to this woman's health due to the cell phone accident.
Dumping the chips into a bowl before eating? Isn't that a bit overkill? I bet if she did that to 10+ bags of chips every day for the rest of her life she'll never find anything again. The statistical odds are so small for it to happen, much less to happen twice. I could understand even steering clear of that particular brand of chips, but even that seems a little extreme.
@Tito,
Good god, you humourless pointdexter. The article was meant to be light-hearted, not taken with Germanic levels of analubernerdness.
Since she's from Janesville she probably won't sue. Good, rural midwestern folk aren't very litigous, even if they are retardedly conservative.
I stopped buying food from Aldi after I saw a pack of english muffins with a piece of (?)ham(?) lodged in one of them; it was nasty looking. The food is cheap but there's a reason for that.
Are you kidding me? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
That's like saying because somebody is a Bostonian they won't have fun, or because somebody is Californian they won't get down to business. Not all midwesterners are from bumbertown. I may not be from that region, but Minnesotans still get a lot of crap. You are all jealous because Minneapolis has free citywide wi-fi and you don't.
Lots and lots of Jews are here compared to other places to, and we happen to be a technical folk. Along with a bunch of other races, all of which are smarter than you.
The lady looks like a perfectly respectable lady, and the only reason she wouldn't sue is because it wasn't THAT big of a deal. A person's attitude doesn't reflect on location, smartypants.
I concur with Jack ;)
I have been shopping for a cell phone for my wife, and I think this is a much easier way to get one! By the way what was the brand name, and location of that store?