As you can imagine, that takes a long time:
The best part is that the auto advertisement generator on this article, naturally enough, brought up an ad for iPods.
Man, the RIAA is getting tough.
She’s got the beat, I guess.
Incidentally, the story is a hoax.
Coming from Macworld. :rolleyes:
Was the iPod okay?
The hell??? Some kind of “viral marketing” schtick?
Traumatised no doubt.
Stabbed him? With an iPod? What kind of accessories did she buy for it?
I don’t remember reading anything about this in March, and the MPD and sheriff’s department are different entities. I can’t see how it’s anything but a hoax. The local paper, the Commercial Appeal http://www.commercialappeal.com doesn’t have anything either.
-Lil
Um, what’s your point? That MacWorld isn’t a reputable publication and some faked web page is? The authors pretty much admit it’s a hoax
here.
Although the story made the rounds on the internet, note that no reputable news agency ran with it. And Occam’s Razor – which is easier to believe, that it’s a hoax, or that some woman was able to beat her boyfriend to death with a 2 oz piece of electronics.
Rolleyes, yourself.
Well, maybe if you filed down an edge of the metal case into a crude blade, or used the iPod as a projectile in a sling…
And the boyfriend was a hemophiliac midget who was trying to get himself killed. 
Where’s John Cameron Swayze when you need him?
Yes, where is John Cameron Swayze and what’s his input on all of this? That’s exactly what I want to know.
umm… who is John Cameron Swayze again?
How sad a grammar geek am I? I saw “it’s” instead of “its” in the quote, and thought, It’s gotta be a hoax.
“Stabbing” someone to death with an iPod? Barely a blip the skept-o-meter. Misplaced apostrophe? Credibility shattered.
I just wondered what self-respecting copy editor would let something like that get through.
Not to mention the difference between blunt trauma and stabbing - the story isn’t even consistent. :dubious:
:smack:
Oh, BTW:
Unfortunately, we self-respecting copy editors are a dwindling breed.
You know, if she had waited 10 months, she could have Shuffled him off the mortal coil.
And the iPod still works after being smacked against a skull hard enough to kill a man. I tell you, those things are tough.
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