In this day and age, owning a cell phone is about as special as using your tooth brush every night before bed.

For some people, however, these gadget must-haves cause more trouble than they're worth.

For others, they are literally a life-saver. Either way, they often make life just a bit more fun.

While Piotr Staniaszek imagined that tethering the phone to his laptop and downloading to his hearts delight was kosher, wireless carrier Bell Mobility had other ideas.

The service provider informed the oil worker that using the phone as a modem was not covered under his plan, and it proceeded to charge him on a per-kilobyte basis.

As a token of "goodwill," the company eventually lowered the bill to only $3,243.

A bank in Alabama was recently held up by a robber who didn't find it necessary to get off of the phone while committing the crime.

Surveillance footage shows the man pointing a firearm at a teller and demanding money, all while conducting a conversation on his cell phone. All we want to know is, why didn't Pacino think of this one in 'Heat?'

A man from the United Kingdom received a bill for £11,000 (about $22,000) after his wife downloaded four episodes of the popular TV show from his cell phone.

Apparently, she began downloading shortly before the man left for business in Germany, where roaming charges made the bill skyrocket as the downloads continued.

The good news is that one of the episodes the couple downloaded was the one where – eh, never mind.

Andrew Cheatle was playing with his dog at a beach in England when his phone slipped out of his pocket. He thought it was gone for good, but a week later, someone dialed his girlfriend from that phone number.

Glen Kerley of Worthing, West Sussex, had caught a 25-pound cod and found the phone inside the fish! He retrieved the SIM card, inserted it into a dry phone, and found Cheatle's saved numbers.

When Cheatle retrieved the phone and dried it out, it still worked—but not perfectly. He had the circuit board replaced and still uses the phone, which has since lost its fishy smell.

A phone found in a taxi cab sounds like an everyday story, but in at least one case it could help convict a murderer.

Taxi driver Brian Douglas Horn was arrested in connection with the murder of 12-year-old Justin Bloxom in Bossier Parish, Louisiana.

A cell phone found in his cab contained records of text messages that were entered as evidence that Horn lured Bloxom into the cab the night he was killed.

This is not the first time a found cell phone was used as evidence in a murder case.

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