If you drop your phone in the toilet, there’s a good chance you can save it: Turn it off, dry it out, submerge it in a bowl of rice, and a few days later, you might be good to go. However, it’s safe to say that if you drop your phone in a murky river, you probably won’t see it again. Unless, of course, the phone becomes sentient. That’s exactly what (seemed to) happen to Nathan Buhler: He dropped his phone in a river and didn’t even start looking for it – what would have been the point? A few days later, the unthinkable happened: It started posting on his Facebook wall.
