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iPod: This Season's Must-Have for Muggers

Posted by pudge on from the it-just-looks-darling-with-your-ski-mask dept.

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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  1. I must be some sort of luddite! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I have never seen an iPOD. Its a glorified walkman right? When I was a kid, I used a walkman because I took the bus. But that seems pretty unreasonable to me now, wearing headphones, not paying attention to my surroundings.

  2. Re:Punishment... DEATH by iminplaya · · Score: 1, Redundant

    But if you steal an iPod, is it theft or just infringement? :-)

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  3. Re:Mugging by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Being a humorless dolt is no laughing matter, you insensitive clod!

  4. Re:Without a Doubt this Topic will Burn Through... by bryan1945 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So far it hasn't worked for you or the parent, so let's continue the theme.

    Someone please mod me Redundant.

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  5. Re:Mugging by darkpixel2k · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Then you misunderstand them. It paralyzes you. Your muscles cramp up and you can't move. It's not that the pain is so bad, it's that the signals coming from your brain telling your muscles to move are being drowned out by the signals coming from the tazer. Tazers work.. even on people pumped up on PCP.

    It's not that the pain is so bad?!?

    What were you tazed by? A Playschool "My First Tazer"?

    Not only does it screw up communication in your nervous system--it hurts like hell too!

    They are very effective.

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  6. I'll show them muggers... by sjonke · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... I'll wear white headphones, but carry a P.O.S. brand-x cassette walkman-clone. Go ahead, mug me!

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  7. Re:Dear Hambone by thebes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Slash-mugging: Close your browser and mail your laptop to: Slash-mug Dude C/O ....