“A teenager who was part of a gang that fatally stabbed a 15-year-old boy over an iPod was convicted Tuesday of murder,” The Associated Press reports.
“Brooklyn prosecutor Charles Hynes said a jury deliberated for three hours before convicting Darren Samuel, 17, of robbery and second-degree murder in the July attack. He faces as many as 25 years in prison,” AP reports.
“The victim, Christopher Rose, was stabbed in the chest when he and friends resisted a group that accosted them in the street and demanded they give up an iPod one of them was carrying,” AP reports.
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Really torture him. Give him a cell with Windows.
iJustice
how many tasteless jokes will there be?
how many tasteless jokes will there be?
Fourteen? Oh, wait, was that question rhetorical?
Sad, truly sad.
I once served on a jury for a teenage murder– he was convicted. No matter if justice is served, there is nothing to smile about. Two lives wasted.
Meanwhile, 50 Cent and Eminem are inspired. They promise to to put the rap in crapstorm. Or the other way around. Keep on killin’ my chillin’. What?
I like the Islamic retribution method for stealing, they chop off your hand.
Static: that’s not your hand but what it’s holding?
my guess is more than that.
Only one life wasted
Sad. Just sad.
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Static: that’s not your hand but what it’s holding?
I’m standing in front of a mirror with my iPod in my hand.
how many tasteless jokes will there be?
Depends on the build. My guess is 3.1
I’ll tell you the truth from personal experience, those young gangs who prey on others only learn empathy after something terribly horrible physically happens to them.
They all big in the group, but take a body part from each of them and see how bad ass they are after that.
The death of the victim is a tragedy, of course. But others can learn from what may have been the victim’s fatal mistake.
A human life is more important than an iPod! If it were me, I would have given the gang the iPod without resistance. The iPod and the songs on it could have been replaced. But now there is nobody to listen to them. 🙁
This story has absolutely nothing to do with iPod. The bottom line is that if you give any device to a large enough percentage of the general population, the chances that one of those devices will center in a violent crime becomes statistically probable. In the early days of cell phones, there were probably a few people who were murdered for those as well. It’s a shame, but it’s nothing new, and it’s got nothing to do with iPod, per se.
Earlier this year there were news about Myspace.com incidents, i think one of them was a murder. I guess anything popular ends up associating to everyday human life.
Apple and Nike are a good match. People have killed for both their products.
Greg… good points… it’s like back in the day when kids were getting killed for Air Jordans.
“how many tasteless jokes will there be?”
Okay, someone has to say this,
Finally, the first and only true iPod killer.
I’m leaving now to wash my mouth out with soap.
Cain killed Abel… and for what? A sacrifice to iGod.
Oh guys!!
Guess what I’ve found!
A early test of the Quad Core Conroe that will most likely make it’s way into the next Mac Pro (PowerMac G5 replacement) here shortly.
I think it would be rather temptating of Apple to put two of these in a Mac Pro. (8 cores total!)
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1527913
What I suspect Apple will do is again provide three Mac Pro models,
two will be Quad Cores and the very high end will be 8 cores.
They have done this twice before
Single 1.6 and 1.8 Dual 2 (when PowerMac G5 first released)
Dual 2, Dual 2.3 and Quad. (like right now)
New line up
QuadTel, QuadTel and Dual QuadTel
They can call it the Mac Quadra!
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(How did we get on this subject again?)