Women Shut Down Subway to Retrieve Dropped Phone

Commuters travel on the District Line of the London Underground, April 30, 2014 in London. Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Two women trying to retrieve a dropped cellphone forced the shutdown of London’s four subway lines during rush hour on Jan. 18.

Metro has pieced the story together from Instagram videos and tweets. Apparently, a mother and child were crossing an overpass over a set of underground train tracks when the girl dropped her cellphone.