Ray cried out for help repeatedly, but no one heard him, so he was pretty much going to die on his own – except he wasn’t alone. But as Siri recently proved, even fake humans can sometimes save lives.
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He was working under his truck on July 2 while it was lifted up on a jack in the driveway of his family’s Murfreesboro home.
The unnamed man said that he manged to “push up on his hip” and then effect a 911 call.
But the disembodied voice which replied to his frantic calls did not come from the heavens – it came from the iPhone in his back pocket.
Ray used his bottom to activate Siri, which called emergency services.
“It felt like my leg was breaking because I could feel it bending”, Ray said. It seems he butt-dialed her and she wanted to know how she could help.
Sam was trapped for around 40 minutes and suffered three broken ribs, a bruised kidney, a cut on the forehead, and second and third-degree burns to one arm that was under the exhaust pipe.
The experience has profoundly affected Sam, who once harboured dream of becoming a Christian minister, but is now considering a career in medicine.
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“It’s reassuring to know I’m here for a objective”.
Many people will say that Siri is a life saver, but they mean it in a metaphorical sense.
Doctors now expect Sam to make a full recovery.
Ray called his father for advice, and then put his phone in his back pocket.
“He’s very lucky”, said Dr Richard Miller, chief of trauma and surgical critical care at Vanderbilt.
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Flight nurse Kirk Krokosky said: “He could have been there for hours, but as fate would have it, Siri was sort of his guardian angel”.
