UK Street Crime Rise Blamed on iPods

CNET reports that the British Government today attributed the country's 22% rise in street crime to iPod robberies. This has hit CNET close to home. Guy Cocker, a CNET (Gamespot) journalist based in London, was mugged last week. The muggers held 'a semi-automatic weapon to the back of Cocker's head and told him, "we're taking all your stuff"'. CNET's solution to the problem is suggestions on how to conceal your iPod from attackers. These include 'The gaffer tape method,' 'The Coke can method,' and 'The Christopher Walken method.'

Comments

the "Christopher Walken" method?

[Paperghost]

I was hoping it'd show you how to dance like a maniac then fly off into the sky :(

Ipod ppffft

[Soupy69]

See in Scotland we dont have Ipods yet, but ukele and banjo crime has gone through the roof

Summary of recomendations

[DigitAl56K]

Here are some of the recomendations from TFA:

1. Don't wear earbuds, headphones, or use any attachment that might make sound incase a mugger in close proximity detects it
2. Avoid dressing in black and dancing like a zombie in public
3. Be prepared to one-up your semi-automatic carrying attacker at all times
4. Wear not one, but an array of bullet proof iPods to form a bullet proof iPod vest
5. Ensure that, for your own safety, your government is monitoring your phone calls. In a post-911 world we must all take additional steps to ensure the iTerrorist threat is neutralized

If, after following all of the above guidelines, your iPod should happen to be stolen, contact the RIAA as quickly as possible and inform them of all the illegal music you have stored on it, then wait for them to subpeona your assailiant and recover your costs in an out of court settlement.

Re:22%??

[tgd]

Probably a metric conversion error. 7,457 metric crimes committed... thats 22,000 foot crimes.