Plumbing - Flushed away

05/10/2007

Butterfingered Britons drop 855,000 telephones in their toilet bowls every year, new research has revealed.

The figure equates to 1.5 per cent of the UK's population - meaning that apart from it is the most common way to lose a telephone, as Britons quite literally flush thousands of pounds of technology down the toilet.

Meanwhile, according to price comparison website SimplySwitch.com, 315,000 phones are lost in a taxi and some 225,000 are left on buses.

A staggering 116,000 meet a watery end when accidentally put in with laundry, while contrary to their image as man's best friend, dogs chomp their way through 58,000.

The total number of phones lost in the UK annually stands at 4.5 million.

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