By COLlive reporter
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is associated with bans – coming out against smoking in public, salt in foods and super-sized sugary drinks. But this week, one of his ideas actually had positive effects for a Crown Heights resident.
During a photo-shoot the other day in Crown Heights, photographer Chana Blumes mistakenly dropped her Blackberry Bold down a grate, which ended up in the water sewer.
Her client called 311, the City’s hotline of government information and non-emergency services created by Bloomberg in 2009, and reported the incident.
“The next morning they called my house and told me what time to meet them,” Blumes said, noting that she waited for them for 30 minutes but didn’t mind since “we are talking about New York City here…”
A truck from the Department of Environmental Protection pulled up at Albany Avenue and Eastern Parkway and “the man spent time looking for it in all the gross garbage,” she said.
After 15 minutes of trash digging, the mobile device was found. Although it had rained hours earlier, the SIM card with all her contacts was still working.
A grateful Blumes, who photographed the phone’s retrieval, said she shared the story “so people know that if something like this happens to them, who they can call.”
Find out how to contact 311 at NYC.gov
one word “Bambas ” lol
Chana Blumes will be famous for her visual marketing skills.
Good publicity start for attracting new assignments.
go chana blumes. only you!
how about using blackberry protect (FREE from blackberry, probably already installed on the phone, just need to set it up, if it’s not there download for free from app world). it will backup your contacts (and calender, tasks, etc) to blackberry. if you lose your phone, you can restore all your info to your new phone directly from blackberry. and blackberry protect also lets you do a bunch of other things remotely with a lost phone, look it up here: http://us.blackberry.com/apps-software/protect/ BTW, I seriously doubt blackberry stores your contacts on your SIM card PPS the phone is not necessarrily dead,… Read more »
chanaaa we love you!!
’nuff said
Only chana blumes.
A similar thing happened to me in Los Angeles. I was a passenger in a car and I didn’t realize that my house/ car keys were on my lap. We had pulled up to the corner so I could exit the car and when I did the keys dropped to the street right where there was a storm drain and my keys fell right into it. I called the city and within 2 hours a city maintenance worker showed up and retrieved my keys for me. I was very thankful. (I only had one set of car keys and it… Read more »
Maybe the government would be better off “waisting” money on your education.
that’s where the blackberries belong anyways…
thats a good way for them to clean the drains anyway.. it has to be done anyway once in a while…
down in the sewer……..
haha chana blumes u crack me up
seriousely, that money is going to taxes anyway, might as well make use of it. and hullo, better than the money being pocketed by the politicians instead.
“LIKE”
Our tax money being wasted. Back up your contacts to your computer. Its an older version of the blackberry phone. What a waste of manpower
nice way to waist government money. sorry to day it but this is the most stupid thing in the world!
But all that for ONE phone, what a waist of government money!
GHOSTBUSTERS!!
she does an amazing job