“You, you, you otter know” —Alanis Morissette. (Photo: CNET).



One bold otter has ripped the lid off of what could very well be the biggest tech scandal of our time.

Per a report from a local Fargo, N.D., TV station, someone was snapping photos of the Red River Zoo’s adorable North American river otters, when the person accidentally dropped their phone into the exhibit. An otter examined the specimen to discover it was in an OtterBox phone case. The otter was not impressed by its namesake product and proceeded to rip it, and the phone, to pieces.

The act may have been retribution for the many years of tension between the otter population and the best-selling phone case company. The OtterBox website has long exploited the otter name to sell its products. One promotional line reads: “Similar to the otter’s fur, our original line of cases is waterproof.”

OtterBox did not respond to requests for comment on whether it has tested its cases against actual otters.



UPDATE:

An OtterBox representative told Yahoo Tech that “while OtterBox previously offered an ‘otter-tested’ case, it proved not to be very popular due to limited human-otter interactions.” She also provided video proof, below, of the experiment.

Clearly these otters above have been paid off with Big OtterBox money. Thanks to one brave Fargo otter, we know the real truth.

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