McBain
12-12-06, 10:03 AM
As mentioned in our podcast (http://feeds.feedburner.com/LanarchyPodcasts):
I guess it's no suprise really, although I've never left anything in a cab myself, I don't get drunk and catch a cab home very often... I'm sure a large proportion of these lost phones are piss-heads on a Saturday night trip home :roll:
Still, it's nice to know we're number one :)
In the last six months alone, Londoners have forgotten a staggering 54,874 mobile phones (that’s over two per taxi), 4718 handhelds or Pocket PCs, 3179 laptops and 923 USB sticks/thumb drives at the back of licensed taxi cabs - and that’s just the ones that have been reported as lost!
London is not alone when it comes to forgetful travellers. It would seem the story of lost and forgotten mobiles echoes around the world with the same fate afflicting Sydney, Bombay, Stockholm, San Francisco, Washington, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich and Oslo. However, of all the cities London still comes out on top as the capital with the most forgetful population losing more mobile phones than any other city, followed by Bombay travellers who have lost a total of 32,970 and Sydney citizens who come third with 6,440 mobile phones reported as lost.
Source (http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=4606)
I guess it's no suprise really, although I've never left anything in a cab myself, I don't get drunk and catch a cab home very often... I'm sure a large proportion of these lost phones are piss-heads on a Saturday night trip home :roll:
Still, it's nice to know we're number one :)
In the last six months alone, Londoners have forgotten a staggering 54,874 mobile phones (that’s over two per taxi), 4718 handhelds or Pocket PCs, 3179 laptops and 923 USB sticks/thumb drives at the back of licensed taxi cabs - and that’s just the ones that have been reported as lost!
London is not alone when it comes to forgetful travellers. It would seem the story of lost and forgotten mobiles echoes around the world with the same fate afflicting Sydney, Bombay, Stockholm, San Francisco, Washington, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich and Oslo. However, of all the cities London still comes out on top as the capital with the most forgetful population losing more mobile phones than any other city, followed by Bombay travellers who have lost a total of 32,970 and Sydney citizens who come third with 6,440 mobile phones reported as lost.
Source (http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=4606)