WESTON, Wis. (WSAU) — An argument between a couple near Wausau led to an unusual chain of events. The Everest Metro Police Department was called to a Village of Weston residence Tuesday. The 42-year-old man’s complaint was that his live-in girlfriend, “swallowed his cell phone SIM card” as retaliation for an argument.
It’s not the first time she has retaliated against the man through his technology. She damaged a cellphone belonging to the man several days before swallowing the SIM card.
A SIM (Subscribe Identity Module) card is that tiny, flat, removable storage device in phones, tablets, and computers that stores things like phone numbers, addresses, messages, pictures, videos, and other data.
Police told WAOW television the woman was placed under arrest on a probation hold and taken to jail. She will be charged with criminal damage to property and domestic abuse.
