"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present to you the murder weapon - and no, you can't have it after the trial."
- Arleen Mathers, 23, was arrested Thursday morning after she called Memphis Police and said she had killed her boyfriend, according to a Sheriff's Department report.
When deputies arrived at Mathers' apartment at 528 Poplar Avenue, Mathers led them to the body of her boyfriend, Brad Pulaski, 27.
Brad Pulaski had died of blunt trauma to the head after being repeatedly bludgeoned with an iPod, a popular MP3 player produced by Apple.
Police said no motive has been confirmed, although evidence suggested the murder was the result of a domestic dispute after Pulaski erased the contents of Mathers' iPod.
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. [Headlinednews.com]
Three months? Well then death was too good for the bastard.
The coroner said she must have hit him 40-80 times with the iPod, which, fortunately for her, is "partially made of a hard metal plate that's been praised for its resistance to regular wear and tear, like drops and coffee spills." Or use as a bludgeon.
A question: was the guy asleep or something? How could a grown man allow himself to be beaten 40-80 times by a woman with an iPod? If my life is at stake, I'm kicking the bitch down the street regardless of what damage it does to the iPod.
Article comments
1 - Mark Saleski
see...i told you guys that downloaded music was bad.
buy more records and your life will be better.
;-)
2 - Craig Lyndall
Too bad for him, the Mini Ipod hadn't come out yet. If it had, he might still be here alive.
3 - Jim Carruthers
The guy probably died because survival would have been too painful: Your girlfriend beat you up with an iPod?
4 - Eric Olsen
death by mortification
5 - Tom
...while "GoodBye Earl" played on it's tiny hard drive.
6 - Phillip Winn
I want to say that you're all being crass and insensitive, from Eric's use of a a rude term to the rest of you poking fun at a dead man.
But honestly, I'm just annoyed that I can't think of anything clever.
7 - Eric Olsen
The reality of the situation isn't funny in the least. But in the abstract it's hilarious.
8 - Mac Diva
Oh, Gawd! Now, I have heard it all.
As, Phillip said, tragic and all that.
But, does anyone know:
*Was it a 10, 15, 20 or 40GB iPod? (The 40 is the bigger and heavier, but still hardly noticeable on your arm or in your pocket.)
*Macintosh or Windows? (Windows people have been known to do strange things.)
*Is it still in warranty? (Apple might refuse to authenticate it otherwise.)
Is this story real? The only other place I found it was iPod Lounge.
9 - Eric Olsen
Important lawyerly questions. Okay it isn't real, but it sure would have been amusing (not that I wish death on poor Brad or anything). It was pretty well done, though in a faux-CNN stylie
10 - Mac Diva
Actually, those are tongue-in-cheek questions-:).
But, it would be funny to hear Steve Jobs very pontifically say: "The item resembles an iPod. But, Apple has no record of this alleged murder weapon in its records."
11 - Jim Carruthers
Or to hear Apple's avoidance of warranty service because your iPod stopped working because you beat somebody to death with it. I can't wait until "murder or assault" appears in the license agreement.
12 - Mac Diva
Can tell you've been there like me, Jim. The lengths manufacturers will go to disown their product when it effs up is amazing.
13 - kneemow
sorry to burst your bubble, but this is a fake story.