Dad speaks out after saving daughter's lost phone in sewer
A father who went above and beyond is earning the praise of social media fans after he was filmed getting into a sewer to retrieve his daughter's lost cellphone.
"I like to think I'm special but I think any dad would do that for their daughter," Michael Williams told ABC News' Danny New.
Williams' daughter, singer Julie Williams, had been in Kansas City, touring with the "Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony" show, when she said someone stole her phone from her backpack during a workout class.
"I knew that if, for some reason, there would have to be a confrontation with somebody to get the phone, I was like, I need to call my dad and make sure that he's there," Julie Williams said of her father, who works in the information technology sector and had traveled to Kansas City to see her perform.
Julie Williams said because her father had put multiple safety features on her phone before it went missing, it may have led the person who had it to get frustrated and discard it in a sewer.
She said she used the Find My feature on her instructor's phone to track her phone to the sewer, in a saga she shared in a now-viral Instagram reel.
Members of the Kansas City Public Works team also jumped in to help the father-daughter duo and in the end, Julie Williams was able to get her phone back successfully.
"I thought to myself, I'm so grateful that I have my dad to call," she said.
