News: Telephone found in tater bag

A quirky story that doesn’t deserve nearly this much space, but what the heck:

MONTE VISTA, Colo. – A missing cell phone turned up in perhaps the most unlikely of places: 1,606 miles and five states away inside a bag of potatoes.

The story of April Cordova’s road-tripping cell phone was first reported by Rebecca Thomas in Alamosa’s Valley Courier on Monday.

Cordova, an employee at the Harvest Select Potato Company, says when she lost her phone on Jan. 10 while bagging potatoes, she thought she heard it fall onto the belt that sent the spuds into the packing.

After days of searching the warehouse and having co-workers call her rogue cell phone, it still hadn’t turned up.

A week later, Rachel Eddings of Black Mountain, N.C., just outside Asheville, was out grocery shopping. She bought a bag of potatoes and went home to make her family breakfast for dinner.

Eddings’ youngest daughter, 3-year-old Riley, reached into the spuds sack to help her mom, but instead pulled out the cell phone.

After inspecting the dirt-caked cell, Eddings managed to turn it on and called the number listed under “home” and left a message.

The next day, she still hadn’t received a call back, so she decided to search the area code to determine from where the phone had originated. Eddings says she was shocked and amazed to discover the phone had traveled across the country from Colorado.