One student must have been given quite a shock last month when they put on a wash – with their iPhone inside.
We’ve all forgotten detergent at some point, but one Constantine fresher made a far more costly mistake.
This picture was snapped by first year Film and Television student Phoebe Knowles in the college’s laundry room.
“I felt so bad for the owner of the phone,” she told York Vision. “It sucks that you cant open the doors once a wash cycle has begun, else I would have tried to get it out.
“It was sitting on the side like in the picture, then it got sucked into the drum and you could hear it going round and bashing off the sides. I was actually wincing.”
A single Circuit Laundry wash costs £2.70, but a single iPhone 5S on Apple’s website starts at £379.00.
Once we allow for about 25p of detergent, the cost of this remarkable wash comes in at a whopping £382.05.
It’s unclear whether a session in a tumble dryer, at £1.30, would have fixed the phone; but a 500g packet of basmati rice at Asda clocks in at a slightly more economical 98p.