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Survey: 59% would grab smartphone out of toilet

cbsnews.com (10 months and 25 days ago)

Jun 29, 2012

Survey also shows people would dig through garbage, even put themselves in harm's way to retrieve phones full story

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Survey: 59% would grab smartphone out of toilet

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