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Broken Beer Bottle Battle In Debate Over Merits of Android Over iPhone

Posted by samzenpus on from the sticks-stones-and-beer-bottles dept.

HughPickens.com writes Lee Hutchinson writes at Ars Technica that platform loyalty is a powerful thing, as two roommates in Tulsa, Oklahoma stabbed each other with broken beer bottles in a debate over the relative merits of Android versus iPhones. Tulsa police were called to Evergreen Apartments at 1 a.m after a woman found a man covered in blood, stumbling around the parking lot and found that two roommates had been drinking and arguing over their mobile phones. The two men broke beer bottles and stabbed each other with them and one of the men smashed a bottle over the back of the other man's head. "In over 35 years as a cop, this is one of the oddest reasons I've seen for assault," says Maj. Rod Hummel. According to Channel 8 News, police had no comment when asked which phone was in fact better.

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  1. Why it did not go further by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Funny

    They would have escalated to a steel-cage death match, but the signal drop was too great,

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    1. Re:Why it did not go further by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wait until they find the body of the Windows Phone fanboy.

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    2. Re:Why it did not go further by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The Android guy won the fight. After the beer bottles, they hit each other with their phones, but the iPhone guy dropped his; turns out he was holding it wrong.

    3. Re:Why it did not go further by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      You have a Blackberry, don't you?

    4. Re:Why it did not go further by Mike+Buddha · · Score: 4, Funny

      Have you considered stabbing them with a broken beer bottle? Just a thought.

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  2. Finally a good reason for an assault. by cs668 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm ashamed that vi vs. emacs never ended in a knife fight. The youngens are showing us up!!

    1. Re:Finally a good reason for an assault. by ClickOnThis · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm ashamed that vi vs. emacs never ended in a knife fight.

      It did. Sort of.

      The emacs dude ran M-x knife-fight.

      The vi dude ran :s/knife/pillow/g.

      The rest of the fight was obscured by flying feathers.

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  3. Who won? by nine-times · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does the article say who won the fight? I'm thinking of buying a new phone, and I want to know if I should buy and Android phone or an iPhone. Since stabbing each other with broken bottles is an appropriate way to determine who has the best phone, this information is relevant to my interests.