“Rachel Cambra couldn’t wait to see the look on her 14-year-old son’s face when he opened a very special present on Christmas morning. The Mililani, Hawaii, woman had saved up to surprise her son with what he wanted most for the holiday, a new Apple iPod with video,” ABC News reports. “Surprised he was, and so was Cambra. When her son opened the box for the high-tech toy, he discovered the iPod that should have been there wasn’t. It had apparently been replaced with some kind of mystery meat.”
“Cambra says the box was sealed and that it didn’t appear to have been tampered with when she brought it home from the Honolulu Wal-Mart where she works,” ABC News reports. The meat in question “appeared to be some kind of sealed fish or meat product, certainly not a state-of-the-art MP3 player… Dan Fogleman, a spokesman for Wal-Mart, said it did appear that the package was sealed and has contacted Apple about the matter. He says Cambra will be given a new iPod for her son from the very next shipment the store receives.”
Full article here.
Don’t complain too much Cambras, you got a nice free snack for your trouble! There’s really nothing quite like mysterious sealed “meat” stuffed inside an iPod box that once graced the shelves of a Wal-Mart (however briefly). Yum!(1)
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1. Do not eat iPod meat.
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Wouldn’t that be Podded meat?
First pun!
Sounds fishy to me. Sorry.
She just wanted to get two iPods for the price of one.
Hmmm, and in some nameless high school lunchroom, some kid will get an iPod next to his mashed potatoes and peas!
Shrink wrap machines aren’t as uncommon as people think especially at a place like Walmart. “Sealed” doesn’t mean it hasn’t been opened.
Even so, how friggin funny would that have been to see that.
LOL Ampar! Ham it up! Steak your claim!
She had a beef with Wally World
Sorry.
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::Name the Mystery Meat::
Wait, this story takes place in Hawaii? My money’s on Spam™!
will have a fit!
There’s only two explanations for this:
1. Some employee at Wal-Mart did a bait-and-switch with a shrink wrap machine.
2. More likely scenario: This woman is pulling a scam on Wal-Mart (and Apple)! She wants TWO iPods for the price of one! The spokesman for Wal-Mart said that the package appeared to be sealed?? Um, how does he know? Was he there on Christmas morning when they opened their gifts? Wal-Mart supposedly didn’t see the iPod box until AFTER it was opened, in which case this woman could have put ANYTHING inside.
THIS IS WHY WAL-MART DOSN’T DESERVE APPLE PRODUCTS
BASTARDS!
Better scam would have been if she’d ordered a thumb drive and got a real thumb instead. Is it USB? Nope, human.
It was a Kalua pig with a microchip that played “Louie, Luau.” Nice practical joke!
This is not the first time this has happened. Happened at target last year. Someone was buying iPods and removing them in the parking lot and putting batteries in the box. They shrink wrapped the box and returned the iPod to the store. They eventually got caught.
Obviously what happened here is a serious security breach at Apple; that was the prototype of the grow-it-yourself bio-iPod. If he’d just put a little of his DNA into the depression on one end, and loaded all his favorite songs from iTunes into the USB port in the other, in about a week it would have turned into 10,000 songs in an implantable pancreas.
funny beyond words!
but… the lady should be compensated should the story be proven true. question is… if an employee had the opportunity and access to a shrink wrap machine (and a sufficient supply of Mystery Meat), why stop at one?
DO NOT EAT iPOD MEAT! LOL! Gotta love the iPod Shuffle.
This isn’t a relative of the Californika woman who found a thumb in her Wendy’s Chili is it?
Bozo
SJ
Hmm, Apple’s privacy policy always states that they won’t send you Spam. I guess this is the exception.
There’s a mouse in my beer, eh!
Ron said he saw this report on local TV in Honolulu. The woman and child were obviously distraught, and didn’t look as if they were pulling a scam. They didn’t want to sue Wal-Mart for a gazillion dollars. They just wanted an iPod. Another report said two other ‘meaty iPods’ (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) were also found and Wal-Mart has agreed to replace them with lower calorie, lower protein iPods. This sounds more like a disgruntled employee prank than Apple slipping up and shipping new iPods before their official introduction.
I can see the billboards all over San Francisco:
“iPod beef. 10,000,000 bacteria in your pocket.”
Tera Patricks
Mac360
last year my father bought a sony digital camera at circuit city. when he opened the box there was a different model camera inside. at first, circuit city didn’t believe him when he brought the camera back to the store. they called the sony rep and he randomly opened a few more boxes at the store and found that several of the boxes had different cameras inside. the gave my father a new camera and apologized for questioning his story. the circuit city manager said he had never experienced that situation before.
Wal-Mart.
Says it all.
Speaking of packages with something else in it…
One time I dated a girl with a very shapely figure. When I finally got my hand down her bra all I felt of toilet tissue – it was heavily padded!
But the last laugh was on me – I had a pair of rolled up, extra-large socks stuffed down my trousers.
Whew-You should have seen the look of dismay on her face when she saw the real (tiny) thing!
Ha. Ha. Fooled her!
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