Farmer claims on phone insurance after iPhone ‘gets stuck inside a cow’ It may sound like a load of old bull but a farmer who claims to have lost his iPhone up a cow’s bottom tops a list of unusual mobile phone insurance claims. The agriculturalist from Barnstable in Devon, said he was using a torch app on his iPhone 3GS while assisting a cow giving birth before it disappeared out of sight. When the man in his 30s was eventually reunited with his smartphone it was too damaged to use, leading to his bizarre insurance claim. A close second on the strange list, revealed by MobileInsurance.co.uk, was from a Nottingham woman who said she accidentally baked her Nokia 6303i inside a Victoria Sponge cake. A woman in her 20s using her BlackBerry Bold as an adult toy and a couple dropping a phone in the ocean while re-enacting the a scene from Titanic also made the list. MobileInsurance.co.uk executive John Lamerton said he had seen a lot of ‘weird and wonderful claims’ from customers. He added: ‘I’m not sure how some of them even came about, particularly in the case of the farmer and the cow. ‘Mobile phones are only going up in price now, so it pays to have them insured for as many scenarios as possible.  ‘Judging by these claims, you really never know what you might need to claim for. ‘My advice would be to just use the phone as a phone and not as an ingredient in a cake or a firework for that matter.’ The top ten weirdest claims made: 1. Lost inside a cow 2. Baked into a cake 3. Flushed down a lavatory 4. Snatched by a seagull 5. Blasted by fireworks 6. Stolen by monkeys 7. Dropped from a tree 8. Thrown at a boyfriend 9. Worn out by ‘intimate’ use 10. Dropped overboard
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Farmer claims on phone insurance after iPhone ‘gets stuck inside a cow’

It may sound like a load of old bull but a farmer who claims to have lost his iPhone up a cow’s bottom tops a list of unusual mobile phone insurance claims.

The agriculturalist from Barnstable in Devon, said he was using a torch app on his iPhone 3GS while assisting a cow giving birth before it disappeared out of sight.

When the man in his 30s was eventually reunited with his smartphone it was too damaged to use, leading to his bizarre insurance claim.

A close second on the strange list, revealed by MobileInsurance.co.uk, was from a Nottingham woman who said she accidentally baked her Nokia 6303i inside a Victoria Sponge cake.

A woman in her 20s using her BlackBerry Bold as an adult toy and a couple dropping a phone in the ocean while re-enacting the a scene from Titanic also made the list.

MobileInsurance.co.uk executive John Lamerton said he had seen a lot of ‘weird and wonderful claims’ from customers.

He added: ‘I’m not sure how some of them even came about, particularly in the case of the farmer and the cow.

‘Mobile phones are only going up in price now, so it pays to have them insured for as many scenarios as possible. 

‘Judging by these claims, you really never know what you might need to claim for.

‘My advice would be to just use the phone as a phone and not as an ingredient in a cake or a firework for that matter.’

The top ten weirdest claims made:

1. Lost inside a cow

2. Baked into a cake

3. Flushed down a lavatory

4. Snatched by a seagull

5. Blasted by fireworks

6. Stolen by monkeys

7. Dropped from a tree

8. Thrown at a boyfriend

9. Worn out by ‘intimate’ use

10. Dropped overboard

Source: metro.co.uk

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