Giel Beelen has caused quite a stir at an airport in Colombia. He suspected the ground crew of stealing his phone. “Someone has been fired.”
Giel Beelen’s holiday had a huge low last month. During his trip in Colombia, things went completely wrong at the airport, where he left his phone in the device. “I did a tour through Colombia with my girlfriend Floor. What those Americans do in Europe, from: a day in Paris, a day in Amsterdam and so on,” he explains.
The Giel mobile
Very ‘insane’, says Giel in his radio show. “But there was one time when I was stupid enough at an airport to leave my phone on the plane. I wasn’t allowed to go back to pick him up. I soon found out and then strange things happened. He was not found.”
Giel waited for hours at the airport. “Eventually you are at an airport for one, two, three hours and then you think: okay, this is also a shame, let’s go. And then of course you have Find My iPhone. I think we were already an hour away from the airport and then I saw that he was online; just a moment.”
To the police
45-year-old Giel urged the driver to turn around again. “I went to the police at the airport. Well, the police don’t really have the best name there in all of Colombia, everyone hates those guys a bit, because it’s one big corrupt state, they say.”
And then? “So I’m waiting and they look at the circle where he was last online and start talking a bit vaguely Spanish. Luckily I had a driver who could translate a bit.”
Fired immediately
What did those agents say about Giel’s mobile? “They said: ‘He was found in a part where quite a few people work, so they want to take a look, because a new shift starts in half an hour.’ At that moment – I had not expected it anymore – that iPhone came online again for a short time.”
“Long story short: they opened all those lockers of those people who work there. And I do feel guilty about that: there is one person who has really lost his job. But I had my phone back.”
Giel and his girlfriend on vacation: