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iPod: This Season's Must-Have for Muggers
KH writes "West Midlands police have issued a stark warning to iPod users: ditch the white headphones or pay the price." Apparently, muggers recognize the headphones and target passersby for muggage.
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If you hand over your iPod to the first guy with a knife, you deserve to be mugged.
Anyway, notice where the story is: England. Guns are illegal there, so you're not allowed to defend yourself against muggers.
Yeah, because we all know that nobody ever gets mugged here in the US where everybody carries guns.
Right.
Where exactly do you live in the US again? Because see, here in NYC, we gots plenty of guns, and we also gots plenty of muggings. The iPod thing hasn't really caught on here, but mainly because there are more expensive things to steal (easy way to tell someone who's new to the city: they actually take their laptops out in public), not because muggers are afraid of their victims. As an attempted mugging victim myself years ago, and as someone who knows people who have also been mugged, raped, shot at, stabbed, and assaulted in other ways, I can assure you criminals are quite confident their own skills with their weapon of choice trump those of their victims (wrong as they often are; criminals are not usually the brightest people in the world).
Back on topic - I've always wondered why nobody bothers changing out those white headphones when they buy an iPod, as I've always thought it'd eventually be a magnet for theft once every moron carrying a laptop finally figures out to keep it locked up in a bag that's shaped like something other than a laptop. Plus, they're earbuds - who really likes wearing earbuds? I'd much rather wear my Koss Portapros, which no doubt sound better anyway. If somebody gets robbed because of their white headphones, I say it's their own damn fault. If you're going to be such a pretentious fop, so conspicuous because of the supposed "status" the headphones bring you, you deserve whatever happens as a result.
The only proper response:
Start catching muggers or start collecting unemploymentage when we (the people who run the town, its being a democracy and all) replace your lazy ass.
(Hint: requires the actual fortitude to do your democratic duty; something most Americans wouldn't do unless you offered them a free beer.)
Special news bulletin, this just in: Muggers will steal something which looks valuable.
Boy I'm glad I read slashdot for these highly insightful news articles.
Tommorow's headlines: Eating too much may cause weight gain.
Then explain why the UK's rate of gun related crime is going thru the roof?
I KNOW!@!!!! The people already breaking the damn law to rob/rape you don't really care if they break another one!
Yeah, and who cares anyways if some poofter gets a punch in the nose and loses his iPod.
Wow, all you have to do to get Funny mods is ask for them? Don't forget to say please. Hey, can I bet some Flamebait, please?
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage