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#61425 17-May-2010 13:13

http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/3701349/XT-woes-come-to-smashing-end

Seems kind of pointless really, its not like Telecom can be liable for a phone that has two cracks in the screen

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#330884 17-May-2010 13:21

guy sounds like a moron, he cna't except a $99 phone to last through concreting...he should have got a more expensive one and kept it in a silicone casing with screen protector

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#330891 17-May-2010 13:38

What a load of rubish. The paper for thinking it was news, the guy for blaming XT for a handset crack.

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#330894 17-May-2010 13:43

sigh...

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#330930 17-May-2010 15:40

It was the dumbest (non)'news' item I have seen for a long time.
I wanted to post a comment on the story but they wouldnt have printed it.

The guy is an idiot and so is the paper - If my TV breaks do I blame the broadcasters?
Hmmm - The screen had a crack but he didnt drop it - not terribly likely now is it?

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#330967 17-May-2010 16:50

and he says it should be able to survive the trials of a concrete worker.... where do they come from

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#330975 17-May-2010 17:21

"Idiot acts like idiot.. meh" would be my headline for that story.

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#330996 17-May-2010 18:46

Sometimes one just has to accept that this world is full of knobs who are past the point of rehabilitation.

I wonder if the journalist is just as much an idiot as the guy, or whether they realised he is such an idiot they went ahead and published it anyway to showcase his mentality. If I were a betting man I'd probably go with the former.

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#331009 17-May-2010 19:10

robjg63: It was the dumbest (non)'news' item I have seen for a long time.
I wanted to post a comment on the story but they wouldnt have printed it.

The guy is an idiot and so is the paper - If my TV breaks do I blame the broadcasters?
Hmmm - The screen had a crack but he didnt drop it - not terribly likely now is it?

OT a bit, but I think that this is in a tie for the dumbest non 'news' item. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10645446

(Richie MacCaw's passport was put through the washer, he applied for an emergency passport and it arrived in time.)

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#331024 17-May-2010 19:39

wazzageek: OT a bit, but I think that this is in a tie for the dumbest non 'news' item. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10645446

(Richie MacCaw's passport was put through the washer, he applied for an emergency passport and it arrived in time.)

I disagree. The Government doing anything on schedule is big news.

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#331037 17-May-2010 20:05

Did Telecom actually look at the phone to determine if it was actually shock/drop damage? The wire could have come loose or the screen itself might have a factory fault.

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#331054 17-May-2010 20:47

Those ZTE phones have always been crap, but he's stupid to believe it's going to "last" him.
The amount of phones I have had chucked at me in store is remarkable, when I tell the customer "erm, that's water damage, see that red dot?" - This guy has possibly just uptalked himself, it _could have_ been liquid or impact damage, but he didn't want to look stupid...

...Now he's looking more stupid than ever.

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