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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 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 2

      I have known very few people who really care about my choice of phone. But, then, I've never thought about starting the discussion with a drunk person.

      Now I do see it here on Slashdot all the time; but in the real world, not so much. On the rare occasion it comes up, we usually end up talking about some feature on each other's phone that we like.

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

      You have a Blackberry, don't you?

    5. Re:Why it did not go further by Frobnicator · · Score: 4, Insightful

      But, then, I've never thought about starting the discussion with a drunk person.

      Agreed.

      The three causes are clear enough in the news report: Two drunken roommates around 1:00 AM were in a fight. That's it. What they were arguing about is irrelevant.

      Having heard drunks argue, I can assure you it was not an articulate and well-reasoned discussion. The argument could have been about anything from a favorite phone operating system to a favorite sports team or a favorite color. The fact that they reached for the nearest beer bottle as a weapon is unsurprising.

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    6. Re:Why it did not go further by dAzED1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I *constantly* have people ask me why I don't have an iphone. They gave me crap about my Samsung Gear Fit watch too, which I got when replacing my previous phone (which was stolen, else I'd still have it). Despite getting that watch almost two years ago, I've heard nothing but ridicule for not just waiting for the apple watch - I can complete the Trans-Catalina Trail on a single charge from my Gear Fit on a single charge, and it does everything I could possibly want my watch to do - yet yes, I get lots of ridicule for it at work. This is at multiple locations too - I'm a consultant, and I've got a long list of clients where the engineers for what ever reason think that talking about why apple is better over, and over, and over, is interesting conversation. So, chalk me up to being a witness to silly fanboy behavior

    7. 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. root cause by beschra · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "In over 35 years as a cop, this is one of the oddest reasons I've seen for assault,"

    You mean alcohol?

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  3. News at 11! by Rob+Riggs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Drunk people fight over stupid shit. Tune in this Sunday for our round-table debate: is this really news for nerds?

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  4. 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 ripvlan · · Score: 2

      What about: Tab vs Spaces?

    2. Re:Finally a good reason for an assault. by cs668 · · Score: 2

      Yea, but the vi folks have the mad left hand reach for the ESC key thing going on.

    3. Re:Finally a good reason for an assault. by cs668 · · Score: 2

      Tabs!! I could so give a beat down to everyone who indents code with spaces. Thanks for bringing it up, now I'm just amp'ed up and ready to throw down!

    4. 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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    5. Re:Finally a good reason for an assault. by ausekilis · · Score: 2

      Ah, you mean:

      Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-SHIV!

      It's one of the lesser-known commands, even if it is hidden in the acronym.

  5. Can we all agree by slaker · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can we all at least agree that the sorry excuse for a motherfucker who made the default iOS keyboard that doesn't change the case of characters with the state of the shift key needs a good shanking?

    If there's any single developer that needs a stabbing, it's that guy.

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  6. 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.

  7. youd be surprised how little branding matters. by nimbius · · Score: 3, Informative

    stabbed each other with broken beer bottles

    As a part time bartender i can attest, chances are likely it was a healthy dose of booze that brought this on. Ive had customers that beat the crap out of eachother for disagreements over how to hold a martini, where to park during a football game, and how to lace shoes properly in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

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    1. Re:youd be surprised how little branding matters. by sootman · · Score: 2

      Pinky out, near the exit, and over/under, right?

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  8. Isn't there an App for that? by dav1dc · · Score: 2

    Why did they have the smash physical beer bottles - isn't there an App for that?? ;)

    1. Re:Isn't there an App for that? by SeaFox · · Score: 2

      Why did they have the smash physical beer bottles - isn't there an App for that?? ;)

      Responding to each other's talking points with the fart app might have been a contributing factor to things escalating.