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| Tatiana Sheyrdev, 23, is charged with criminal negligence after the death of her brand-new iPhone 8 Plus. |
Toronto
A 23 year old Toronto woman has been charged with criminal
negligence causing technological death after she mistakenly left her brand-new
$950 iPhone 8 Plus in her car on a scorching late September day.
Tatiana Sheyrdev left the sleek device on the dashboard of
her grey 2016 Prius for 8 hours in 29 degree weather. According to Environment
Canada, the humidex that day was 35 degrees.
Sheyrdev, an advertising executive in the downtown district,
told a judge at the College Park courthouse that she had been “in a panic all
day, wondering where I had left my phone, which is my lifeline,” but that she
never imagined she could have been so absent-minded as to leave it in her
vehicle.
Around 9am last Thursday, financial advisor Paul Stephens
was walking along McCaul Street when he noticed the silver device glimmering
under the hot sun with all of the windows rolled up. “At first I didn’t know
what to do, so I just walked past the car,” said Stephens. “But when I walked past
again after my shift at the bank, it was still there, so I broke the window and
tried to save it.”
Technicians at a nearby Best Buy attempted to revive the
phone for 30 minutes, to no avail. Police were called shortly after.
The iPhone 8 Plus in question was described as 6.4 inches
tall, 3.07 inches in width, and it weighed 7.13 ounces. It featured wireless charging and facial
recognition software, and had the capacity for 256GB of memory.
In a statement released on Friday, Apple CEO Tim Cook
expressed “deep sympathy for all involved in this tragic event.”
From Our Toronto
Bureau
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