May 26, 2006
Deli babysits NY city students cell phones
The enforcement of the cell phone ban at New York city schools is forcing teenagers to find creative places to stash their phones - using trash cans, bushes and even sewer grates as hiding places, reports The New York Daily News.
"The ban even inspired one Brighton Beach deli in Brooklyn to charge $1 each to baby-sit kids' phones and gadgets during school hours - a business proposition that raked in $45 a day. Each gadget was put in a bag with the student's name on it.
... Brighton Beach homeowner Gary Collier said he's caught students retrieving phones from his backyard twice - and his jaw dropped when he learned one of the gadgets was a $400 T-Mobile Sidekick."
Picture left: Omar Sharhan at store on Brighton Beach Ave. that made $45 a day by charging students $1 to hold cell phones
[via Ypulse via Gotham List]
Related:
-- Students get call: Teachers back cell phones
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