OFF BEAT: Animals behind many strange cellphone claims

Animals are a frequent source of mobile phone mishaps in Britain, according to a company that sells cellphone insurance in the United Kingdom.

Mobileinsurance.co.uk compiled a list of the top 10 strangest claims submitted by its customers. The top contender was a farmer who lost his iPhone inside the "back end" of his cow while using its light during a calf birth, according to reports. Other claims included people whose phones were snatched by a seagull and a monkey.

Also in the top 10 were a couple who dropped their phone from a cruise ship while re-enacting scenes from "Titanic,” a pyrotechnician who accidently blew up his phone with fireworks, and a woman who baked her phone inside of a cake, reports said.

A spokeswoman for Mobileinsurance.co.uk told The Telegraph that the claims were “fully and rigorously investigated.”

“Judging by these claims, you really never know what you might need to claim for,” the company’s managing director, John Lamerton, told the newspaper. “My advice would be to just use the phone as a phone.”