Death by iPod
June 19, 2004 8:26 AM   Subscribe

Death by iPod A Memphis woman blugeoned her boyfriend to death with her iPod. Her boyfriend had accused her of illegally downloading music and erased all the songs on her precious iPod, which she then turned around and beat him senseless with it (as the coroner said: "His death was not instantaneous, that’s for sure”) wow. blunt force trauma with an iPod.
posted by meanie (11 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: uh, it's a satire piece, not real news



 
when it's a knifing do the ads feature cut-price knives?
posted by andrew cooke at 8:31 AM on June 19, 2004


Is the iPod OK?
posted by Space Coyote at 8:34 AM on June 19, 2004


hahahah I saw that too. iPod Mini starting at $250 -- wack your grandma with this one!
posted by meanie at 8:35 AM on June 19, 2004


It's a joke, you should mention; neither funny nor well-executed, though.
posted by planetkyoto at 8:35 AM on June 19, 2004


Anybody else notice the 'Related News' item on this page:

Get great deals on the new Apple iPod mini. Starting at under $250

?!

I wonder if they would have ads for knives if the murder weapon was a knife...
posted by sunexplodes at 8:36 AM on June 19, 2004


Definitely a hoax/joke, as was said the first time this made the "news" rounds.
Note the page layout obviously stolen from CNN, tons of non-working links, and most of all, http://www.liquidgeneration.com.
posted by mrbill at 8:43 AM on June 19, 2004


Its gotta be a hoax, I mean, the iPod's just not the right tool to beat someone to death with, those Archos MP3 players had the proper heft though.

But it is clever and kind of funny in a we're-laughing-at-death-and-cheapening-life way.
posted by fenriq at 8:59 AM on June 19, 2004


Cheapening life? If it was a couple of hundred MP3s I'd agree but dude, where's your sense of perspective? A few thousand for a life is totally believable.
posted by vbfg at 9:03 AM on June 19, 2004


rats.
posted by andrew cooke at 9:12 AM on June 19, 2004


Well, even if it had been a 40 gig iPod with 8000+ songs on it, she would have still been able to dock it and just download them all back on it in about 20 minutes.
posted by fenriq at 9:29 AM on June 19, 2004


album shuffle off this mortal coil...
posted by machaus at 9:53 AM on June 19, 2004


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