Now u can get murdered for ur iPod

[W1nTry]

Yuh know... I thought it was bad enough ppl got killed over and Xbox, and it was absolutely horrific that baby dying over WOW, but being killed over an iPod???  I mean COME ON PPL when is this MADNESS GOING TO END? I pick this out of an article about Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple) calling the parents of the deceased young boy who was killed because he wouldn't give up his iPod... sounds so reminescent of ppl being killed over shoes long ago... *sighs* heres the article:

Jobs calls murdered Apple boy’s parents

Incomprehensible

By Nick Farrell: Thursday 07 July 2005, 06:51
APPLE BOSS Steve Jobs rang up the family of Christopher Rose who was murdered for his iPod.

According to the New York Times, Jobs personally called the family of a 15-year-old New Yorker to offer his condolences after the teenager was killed last week during a fight over an iPod.

Jobs, hearing of the murder, got the phone number of the victim's father, Errol Rose and rang him up. Unfortunately it didn’t go quite the way he planned it. Rose apparently didn’t know who initially didn't know who Steve Jobs was when he called.

Jobs told Rose that he understood his pain and asked if there was anything he could do to help. Rose said the call really lightened him.

"Some people talk to you like they’re something remote," Rose told the New York Times.

Christopher Rose was killed Saturday in Brooklyn after Rose and three friends were confronted by a group of teenagers who demanded that Rose give them his iPod. Rose was stabbed twice in the chest after he said no.

[ProtoJoe]

Wow.... The thing that suprises me right now, is that I am no way shocked by something like this happening. It seems to be almost....normal now....

I am feeling scared now....

[Kaizen]

"were all living in americaaaa ...americaaaa "
that is sick i tellyou and ppl wonder why this world comin to an end?
we get our just desserts peter pay for paul and paul pay for all ?

[Narcissus]

'coca cola and sometimes war'
anyways it's times like dese when i'm glad to be livin in a somewhat technologically backward country...
how much ppl in trinidad know what an iPod is

[justinkoo]

i have to into hiding then!  don't wanna get killed or robbed

[ganja_man_biatch]

shit is like this in new york, if u have it, i'm gonna get it.i aint to sure about which part of new york dis happened, but where i lived this was somewhat of a usual thing. i hope the kid rest in peace but he should have known, flashing an expensice piece of shit like that around (maybe $300us), is bound to have your ass beat down and get your stuff stolen, i know it aint a good thing, but that's how brooklyn is.

[TriniXaeno]

pressura

no amount of words could make up for the loss of a child.

sad times for that family.

I hope the bastards that did it get dealt with appropriately.

[TinyGrasshopper]

yep, theft of iPods on the subway was an emerging problem in New York recently. In New York iPods are so ubiquitous it's amazing. I find the fact that Jobs called was pretty cool though. Not really surprising for Jobs, but still.

[W1nTry]

NY has enforced a NO TOLERANCE policy wrt crime on a whole. 3 violations and ur @$$ is grass. I would like to think that the perpertraitors will be brought to justice and publicly flogged, beaten and put on a wrack. What is this world coming to? "can't we all just get along?"

[specialK]

i miss the good old days when people were dealt with by putting them in barrels riddled with nails and then dragged through the streets.

[W1nTry]

0_o where and when were you born? 1920 in old USA?

[pleb]

wouldnt it be more like 1620 England???
seriously guys how can someone kill over material things??
that is so pitiful
i must say that boy was brave though
to say no even at knife point
i hope those thie......murderers get caught

[Kaizen]

boy we all hope they get caught ....if only electric chairs where brand name in prisons around the world.
and they still had guilotine
ppl could go so low to steal stuff like that and kill the person i woulda understand if they beat the @$ out of him but kill...damn

[justinkoo]

really hope the murderers are put to justice. But for an ipod they must be desperate? anyway it s now like part of our culture like cellphones. It's like a status quo

[Starless_Everdark]

lol...ipod...the antichrist...

I BLAME APPLE!!

right...

this is interesting...that's like someone killing u for a remote... :S

[greyfox]

^not really an i pod is a very expensive piece of equipment, ppl around my area are still using  tape's and cd's ,