Ipod bad for you health !

Ponster

From Slashdot :

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.'

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49282165,00.htm

Mushy

Phew, Iv just ordered a Zen micro :P

jebuz

great beards of zeus! i'd better stop clipping my ipod to my belt now, but the guy in the ad is allowed do it!

does anybody use the original headphones with the ipod? A lot of my friends just got rid of them straight away and used other ones...shouldn't have to....shouldn't have to

Ruu_Old

Its pretty much the same as having a mobile attached to your belt for all to see. Just keep it well out of sight.

"Look at my phone, rob me"

Gone West

The Christopher Walken method
Pulp Fiction fans will remember Christopher Walken's speech to the child of a man killed in World War II. His father had asked Walken's character to look after his watch when the two were captured and held in a Vietnamese prison camp. Wanting to keep the watch safe from the guards, "he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide somethin'". Anti-mugger rating: 10/10

nice ...

Dave!

I have a Creative

Splinter

used to work in a pc/electronics store and i ALWAYS told people to get rid of white headphones that came with creatives and ipods. there just a target marker

Dooom

Pah, Ipods.

Minidisc ftw!

astrofool

The danger with MD is that the mugger will go after you again to give it back and avoid the recycling charge.

Dave!

Spike wrote:

Minidisc ftw!

Do you live in the stone age?

Zapp Brannigan

The Christopher Walken method
Pulp Fiction fans will remember Christopher Walken's speech to the child of a man killed in World War II. His father had asked Walken's character to look after his watch when the two were captured and held in a Vietnamese prison camp. Wanting to keep the watch safe from the guards, "he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide somethin'". Anti-mugger rating: 10/10

Ehm....Butchs Dad was killed in the Vietnamese War wasnt he? Hence the POW camp?

Miguel_Sanchez

Sony Discman. The only way to go.

I'd just like to point out that the Naked Galwegian saw this one coming ages ago:

http://www.geocities.com/nakedgalway/4-imugging.htm

whiskeyman

astrofool wrote:

The danger with MD is that the mugger will go after you again to give it back and avoid the recycling charge.

lolzers!!

Seriously though, the way some people carry their iPods or mobiles is just asking to be robbed.
I once saw a girl text using her moible at arms length at the hal'penny bridge crossing as it was red for pedestrians... along came a scally on a bike and just snatched it from her hand.
Some of us are going around carrying well over 700 Euro of electrial goods on our person these days. No wonder wallets arent getting a look in anymore. Tis madness!!

mada999

Archos Gmini xs100.....tbh ftw nice.....

quad_red

Ruu wrote:

Its pretty much the same as having a mobile attached to your belt for all to see. Just keep it well out of sight.

"Look at my phone, rob me"

I think it's more

'Punch me cos I'm a twat'.

I cannot explain it but only total arseholes wear their mobile phones on their belt.

Archeron

quad_red wrote:

I think it's more

'Punch me cos I'm a twat'.

I cannot explain it but only total arseholes wear their mobile phones on their belt.

I've found that also applies to keys for some reason.

Ponster

quad_red wrote:

I cannot explain it but only total arseholes wear their mobile phones on their belt.

Err, I always do. I can get anything between 10 and 50 calls a day at work and my shorts don't have any pockets !

Splinter

Archeron wrote:

I've found that also applies to keys for some reason.

i wear my keys in my back pocket latched onto my belt but cant understand how that makes me seem that way

Fanny Cradock

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Sony Discman. The only way to go.

I'd just like to point out that the Naked Galwegian saw this one coming ages ago:

http://www.geocities.com/nakedgalway/4-imugging.htm

what's a sony i-pod?

J.R.HARTLEY

Slurms wrote:

Ehm....Butchs Dad was killed in the Vietnamese War wasnt he? Hence the POW camp?

what makes it funnier is it says World War two, and then two lines down it says Held in a vietnamese Prison Camp, , so thats how Hitler lost the war, the economics of trabnsporting POWS to south east asia crippled the reich



you are of course correct, it was the vietnam war

Miguel_Sanchez

Fanny Cradock wrote:

what's a sony i-pod?

I think that was supposed to be part of the joke.

quad_red

Ponster wrote:

Err, I always do. I can get anything between 10 and 50 calls a day at work and my shorts don't have any pockets !

Ah, you're ok.

If you're wearing shorts you've got to be cool.

Ponster

haha,

We have a rule at work that when it gets above 29° we can wear shorts. At 39° C we don't have to go in at all

quad_red

Ponster wrote:

haha,

We have a rule at work that when it gets above 29° we can wear shorts. At 39° C we don't have to go in at all

Wish we had that here

Swampy jocks ahoy here.

Rb

jebuz wrote:

great beards of zeus! i'd better stop clipping my ipod to my belt now, but the guy in the ad is allowed do it!

does anybody use the original headphones with the ipod? A lot of my friends just got rid of them straight away and used other ones...shouldn't have to....shouldn't have to

I still wear mine, probably 'cause I haven't been bothered replacing them (even though their quality is pretty crap), use my iPod every time I leave the house for over a year and have never had a problem.
That said, I take out the headphones and put them in my pocket any time I'm unlucky enough to have to walk through a dodgy area.

Dooom

DaveMcG wrote:

Do you live in the stone age?

As much as I'd like to grunt at women without reprisal and drink loads of Volvic water (especially if they have the flavoured stuff), I'm afraid I don't.

My Zen Micro broke a few weeks ago, so I've been forced to downgrade back to my Minidisc...