It was posted here a day or two before, prbably during graveyard shift.
I was going to watch it then but saw that it was long and didn't. I did watch it after Q tagged it.
You can simply claim the battery died.
I suppose its time to start remembering or printing out phone numbers again, leaving all phones at homes and people sharing phones when they need one for emergency while out and about. Like the way things used to be when it was only land lines.