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On Apr 3, 2025 at 5:41:19 PM EDT, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

> On 2025-04-03 03:43, badgolferman wrote:
>> Last Saturday I went on a motorcycle ride with my friend.  On the way
>> home I told him to lead and I would follow from this point on.  We were
>> on a four-lane highway separated by trees in the middle and were
>> traveling 80mph when suddenly I saw something small and black bouncing
>> on the ground between us.  I barely caught a glimpse of it and
>> suspected it might be a mobile phone.
>> 
>> I tried flashing my lights and honking at my friend so he would slow
>> down but he didn't notice, so I was forced to go even faster to catch
>> up to him.  When I pulled up alongside him, I motioned him to pull
>> over.  I asked him if he had lost his phone and after checking it for
>> it he indicated indeed he had lost it.  We doubled back 3-4 miles and
>> turned around back into the same direction we had been traveling when
>> he dropped his phone.
>> 
>> Eventually I noticed two black items on the side of the road and pulled
>> over.  He got off his motorcycle and walked over to pick up the pieces.
>> A few seconds later my phone rang with his name coming up on the
>> display!  His phone had survived bouncing across the road at 80mph and
>> potentially other cars rolling over it!  There were two pieces because
>> one of them was the protective case which had finally come off.
>> 
>> Later on I asked him if he had any damage to the phone.  He told me his
>> Pixel 9 Pro had no damage and that the Peak Design case had some
>> abrasions on the shoulder.  Nothing more.  I'm still quite impressed
>> that the case absorbed so much force from the repeated impacts of
>> bouncing on the road and that the phone survived the whole ordeal.
> 
> Do you have a point?

I think its an ad for Peak Design cases.