"" CHICKASHA, Okla. – A local man has his
phone back after it traveled halfway around
the world.
Kevin Whitney says he lost his iPhone last
October. "I had it in my pocket and I bent over
to work on a copper bottom door and it fell
out of my pocket into my grain pit and went
up the elevator," said Whitney.
It disappeared into a bin full of 280,000
pounds of grain. "I thought I'll never see that
phone again," said Whitney.
Little did Kevin know, his iPhone would take a
nine month journey halfway around the world
before making it back to the palm of his hand.
From Chickasha it was driven by truck to
another grain facility in Inola, Oklahoma. Then
it traveled along the Arkansas River. From
there, it sailed down the Mississippi River by
barge to Convent, Louisiana. Finally, the
iPhone made its way to Kashima, Japan by
ship.
It was mixed in with 2 million bushels of grain
sorghum. Then, just days ago, Kevin got a
call.
"The man on the other end said, 'is this Kevin
Whitney?' I said yeah this is Kevin. He said,
'did you lose a cell phone?' I said yeah I lost a
cell phone last fall."
A worker at a grain mill in Japan mailed the
phone back to Louisiana and from there it
was sent to Kevin in Chickasha.
"It's crazy I can't believe it. What really
shocked me about it all was what a small
world it is. There a lot of a lot of meaningful
pictures on it so we are real glad to get the
phone back," said Whitney.""

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Wow that's quite the adventure for the phone