‘Saved delivery man’s life’: pair in China find 30 new iPhones worth US$30,000 in bins and return to courier, praised on social media
- Brother calls sister after discovering dozens of brand new smartphones downstairs from their flat
- Pair immediately call police, who later recovered one more phone from another bin outside their residential block
A Chinese woman and her brother have been widely praised online after they returned 30 new iPhone 14 Pros worth 210,000 yuan (US$30,000) they found in rubbish bins at their residential block.
The woman from central China’s Henan province, surnamed Chai, said her younger brother discovered the new phones in two rubbish bins downstairs from their flat while throwing out garbage on the morning of July 7.
The shocked brother immediately called his sister, and after rummaging through the rubbish, they discovered 30 iPhones.
They immediately called the police, who recovered one more phone from another bin outside their block.
The police investigated and discovered the person who lost the phones was a courier who had accidentally left them on the street one day before.
The delivery man, surnamed Liu, told Henan City Report that he put five boxes, each containing 10 new iPhone 14 Pro models, on top of the bins on the street while arranging his packages but forgot to take them when he left.
