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"iPod Murder"
"July 3, 2005 -- A gang of thugs brutally stabbed and killed a music-loving teen on a busy Brookly street yesterday in a bid to steal his ipod - the first known murder in the Big Apple over the increasingly popular and expensive portable music players, police sources said."
Brooklyn Teen is Slain for his iPod
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Posted on July 3, 2005 1:40 PM
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In other news, the story was printed in the New York Post, causing everyone who read it to discount it immediately as shit someone made up to meet deadline.
Posted by G3K | July 3, 2005 2:00 PM
ha. :)
maybe you'd prefer this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/nyregion/03ipod.html
Posted by brooklynvegan | July 3, 2005 2:09 PM
I'm sure if they'd just asked nicely, he would have given them his playlist.
Posted by J | July 3, 2005 2:28 PM
"If this ragamuffin whoever he is, if he doesn't turn around his life soon, his end will not be good," she said.
Posted by Neuman | July 3, 2005 2:45 PM
killed in the apple for the apple, eh?
Posted by Robin | July 3, 2005 2:59 PM
does this mean i'm safer if i buy a diamon rio player?
has anyone been wacked for an ipod shuffle yet?
Posted by Steve | July 3, 2005 3:21 PM
remember the good ol' days when kids killed each other for shoes? this is insanity :(
he definitely lost the iPod war there
Posted by Cole | July 4, 2005 3:25 PM
I read he was listening to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and had some leaked Sufjan in his Top 25 Most Played
Posted by Miguel | July 5, 2005 8:37 AM
fuck all u guys who think its funny. because u guys didnt know them. u all who think this is funny can go rot in the deepest pits of hell.
Posted by Anonymous | September 23, 2005 10:55 PM
fuck all u guys who think its funny. because u guys didnt know him. u all who think this is funny can go rot in the deepest pits of hell.
Posted by Anonymous | September 23, 2005 10:55 PM