iPod: a deadly weapon
Posted on March 13, 2004
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Must have been the 40 Gig model:
A Memphis woman was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after she bludgeoned her boyfriend to death with an iPod.
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According to law officers, Mathers was hysterical when police arrived and told them that she killed her boyfriend only after he accused her of illegally downloading music and erased about 2,000 of her MP3s. Mathers complained that it took 3 months to build her music collection.
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“It took him a while to die,” Dr. Klamut said. “She must have stabbed him 40 to 80 times with that iPod. His death was not instantaneous, that’s for sure”
- iPod Used In Domestic Homicide
If we, as a society, have anything to learn from this tragedy it must be: always back up your mp3s.
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