Amazing and heart-warming story of a farmer’s lost phone

We spied a video on NBC’s news website this week which restored our faith in human kind. The report was about an American farmer who lost his phone and was reunited with it – via Japan nine months later.

The phone, containing beloved photos of his family, was dropped by the Oklahoma farmer into a grain bin while he was working last October.

The phone disappeared into the grain store and from there was loaded with the grain into a truck and off to a grain facility in another part of Oklahoma. From there, it sailed down the Arkansas River in a barge and was then shipped to Japan among with 2m bushels of grain sorghum.

Last week, the farmer received a phone call from a kindly grain worker in Japan who had found the phone and wanted to return it to him and, finally, phone and farmer were reunited.

Our hearts, frankly, melted.

Let’s face it, who hasn’t dropped their mobile phone somewhere awkward? In a quick poll around the office we had the following anecdote.

A farming friend left his phone on the mud guard of a tractor while ploughing. The phone fell off and got neatly ploughed into the field.

He had to get his wife to call him so he could try to locate the phone in the earth, astonishingly, he heard the chirrup and indeed found the phone.

A quick search on the internet reveals whole websites dedicated to lost phone stories but we reckon the farming ones are likely to be the weirdest of them all.

We’re dying to know more farm phone stories, so let us know if you’ve got one, be it strange, hilarious or heart-warming. You can comment on the bottom of this article or you can tweet your story to @famersweekly.

You can watch the NBC News video of the Oklahoma farmers story below.