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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHero Catches a Stranger's Phone Mid-Air While Riding a Roller Coaster
If you need more thrills, consider performing the act of public service that a New Zealand man did at a Barcelona theme park: catching a strangers phone in mid-air while riding a roller coaster.
Samuel Kempf, who was in Spain representing New Zealand in the Fistballing World Championship, decided to ride a roller coaster at Barcelonas PortAventura theme park. While on the ride, he saw that a man had dropped his phone into the bottom of his car and couldnt pick it up.
In an interview with Stuff New Zealand, Kempf said that he joked to his brother and other riders that when the ride dropped, they should get ready to catch, which Kempf actually did once the ride picked up some speed.
https://time.com/5669704/man-catches-phone-while-riding-roller-coaster/?xid=tcoshare#2a93b234-6878-4872-9312-40cdfa1d9d8b?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article
Samuel Kempf, who was in Spain representing New Zealand in the Fistballing World Championship, decided to ride a roller coaster at Barcelonas PortAventura theme park. While on the ride, he saw that a man had dropped his phone into the bottom of his car and couldnt pick it up.
In an interview with Stuff New Zealand, Kempf said that he joked to his brother and other riders that when the ride dropped, they should get ready to catch, which Kempf actually did once the ride picked up some speed.
https://time.com/5669704/man-catches-phone-while-riding-roller-coaster/?xid=tcoshare#2a93b234-6878-4872-9312-40cdfa1d9d8b?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article
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Hero Catches a Stranger's Phone Mid-Air While Riding a Roller Coaster (Original Post)
demmiblue
Sep 2019
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Fla Dem
(23,620 posts)1. Nice save! Great reflexes!!
Karadeniz
(22,486 posts)2. Wow! Impressive thinking and reflexes!.
Harker
(14,007 posts)3. I would have caught it, too...
then dropped it again while celebrating.
StClone
(11,683 posts)4. Coney Island to Catching Cameras
Roller Coasters have come a long way. Road my first one in 1978 the Loch Ness Monster in Virgina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster_(roller_coaster)