London: Gadget insurer Protect Your Bubble has complied a list of the strangest reasons its customers have given for the demise or loss of their handsets, including being blasted by a shotgun and lost in a freezer cabinet. “I was out shooting one day when my mobile phone rang,” said one claimant. “The gamekeeper confiscated it, threw it into the air and gave it both barrels of a 12 bore shotgun!”

A disgruntled gamekeeper shot the phone of a claimant