Losing your phone is up there in the top worst things to ever happen to someone in the first world. I don’t think a day goes by without someone on my Facebook timeline appealing for everyone’s numbers after losing another phone (though I feel that might sometimes be a cheap ploy for that hottie’s contact details).
Personally, I’d be more worried about any incriminating or embarrassing texts, photos, memos, which (don’t lie) we all have stored in that little metal box. And with all this Snapchat, sexting, Tindr business, I can guarantee everyone’s got a dick pic or nude selfie they wouldn’t want some random to be ogling or forwarding on.
Well, over the last 24 hours, this person was Courtney Love. And the guy that found her phone in a New York cab was a journalist. But, luckily, also a nice dude. Instead of trolling through its contents (which was apparently impossible anyway), or selling it on to some other tabloid (we see you Gawker), Frank Bruni of the New York Times got in contact with the ‘90s wild child’s management and returned the phone.
Twitter has gifted us with the real-time exchange between the two parties, which you can see below, and has now made me hella curious about what those ‘dirty pics’ might have included. If Frank really is the good Samaritan he purports to be, we’ll probably never see them, but you can get his recap of the events in this article for the Daily Intelligencer.
Weird: the iPhone left in my yellow cab last night clearly belongs to @courtney (Courtney Love). Trying to return. Anyone? Courtney?
— Frank Bruni (@FrankBruni) November 21, 2013
@FrankBruni frank you’re a gem, what a small world can we exchange dms?
— Courtney Love Cobain (@Courtney) November 21, 2013
@Courtney Hi there. Just spoke with your manager, someone’s en route to get your phone. Will DMS this to you as well.
— Frank Bruni (@FrankBruni) November 21, 2013
@FrankBruni wow you really do have my phone at the @nytimes yikes please don’t read it Bwahaa this is hilarious xc
— Courtney Love Cobain (@Courtney) November 21, 2013
@nytimes @FrankBruni have fun reading my texts. Please dont publish my “dirty” pics Bwahaa thank God it wasn’t someone from the Post :)
— Courtney Love Cobain (@Courtney) November 21, 2013
@johnjcook @Courtney Hahahaha. I’m clearly not much of an entrepreneur!!! Have already taken the Good Samaritan route.
— Frank Bruni (@FrankBruni) November 21, 2013
@johnjcook @FrankBruni Frank for governor!!! I would have to move to Iowa if you hadnt taken that route. Ohh the secrets we could tell
— Courtney Love Cobain (@Courtney) November 21, 2013