Schoolboy drains pond to recover smartphone

A 16 year old German schoolboy lost his iPhone while fishing in an angling club pond; the Apple lover decided that draining the pond to recover Siri from her watery grave was a sound idea. The club owners not so much.

According to Metro, the boy suggested using his dive suit to retrieve the phone but was denied - so he returned under the cover of darkness with a pump and two hoses.

"I knew the phone was probably dead but wanted to get the data card back with the numbers, pictures and videos of my friends."


Picture: Polizei Meppen

The youngster thought that if he directed the water into the angling club toilet he may get away with his plan – but he failed to notice that the toilet wasn’t attached to a sewage system.

The pond water proceeded to the parking lot and flooded the area - alerting the club's owners who then called police.

The phone was never recovered.