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iMadness (formerly "iFever")

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 20 2010 10:53 AM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Apr 20 2010 02:53 PM

They may not know exactly what it does. But people want the iPad. They want it so badly, they'll steal it, and they don't care if yougive them the finger afterward. FYI: there is no App for tissue regeneration. (Yet.) DENVER (CBS4) ? A brazen theft in the Cherry Creek Mall left the victim with a permanent injury to his hand. He had just bought an iPad as a favor for a friend. Bill Jordan told CBS4 he moved his family to Colorado from New Jersey 15 years ago to get away from a crime there. Now after the iPad theft, he said his life and the life of his family will never be the same. "I saw just a bone, all the skin and tendons and everything were off," Jordan said, describing the violent robbery that tore off part of his finger. "It's like a bad dream," he said. Last Thursday afternoon the 59-year-old Aurora man walked into the Apple store to pick up an iPad for a co-worker. "I had been asked by one of my colleagues in Canada to pick up an iPad for someone who is being promoted." Jordan left the store with his iPad bag tied around his hand. Unreleased surveillance film shows two young men following him. "The film shows them walking right behind me down the stairs as I was going out the store." A few feet from the doors to the parking garage Jordan felt a violent tugging at his arm. He looked down and saw a young man trying to grab his bag. "He was almost sitting on the ground he was pulling so hard and it was still tied around my fingers; and it wouldn't come off and then finally he gave it one big jerk; and that's when he stripped the skin off my pinky and it went right down to the bone." The robber grabbed the iPad and ran out of the mall. Jordan said he went into shock and used napkins from a food vendor to try and stop the bleeding. Paramedics rushed him to a hand surgeon who told him part of his left pinky would have to be amputated. Now with his hand covered in bandages and his life changed forever, Jordan has a message for the brazen criminals who changed his life forever. "I hope you understand what you've done to my life and my family's life for a simple piece of apparatus that'll be junk in a couple of years."

soupcan Apr 20 2010 11:19 AM Re: iFever

Ouch.

seawolf17 Apr 20 2010 02:04 PM Re: iFever

I almost passed out just reading that.

Edgy DC Apr 20 2010 02:47 PM Re: iFever

That's why I shop at Marshall's.

TransMonk Apr 20 2010 02:50 PM Re: iFever

Did anyone else misread the title of this thread as "if ever" for the first couple of hours it was active? Or am I an idiot? F-yeah, if anyone ever ripped off my finger, I would beat them to death with it!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 20 2010 02:54 PM Re: iMadness (formerly "iFever")

It's almost cartoonish, if a little too macabre for "Tom and Jerry." (Maybe an "Itchy and Scratchy" gag.)

seawolf17 Apr 20 2010 05:37 PM Re: iMadness (formerly "iFever")

iAmgladthatiamnotanapplejunkie.

Valadius Apr 20 2010 09:14 PM Re: iMadness (formerly "iFever")

I don't know anyone that's an Apple junkie. My computer is a Mac, and I have an iPod, but I'm not waiting breathlessly for the next new Apple gadget.

themetfairy Apr 21 2010 05:55 AM Re: iMadness (formerly "iFever")

I'm a PC.

TransMonk Apr 21 2010 07:39 AM Re: iMadness (formerly "iFever")

I really don't get the iPad type products. Are people really going to start needing a bigger iPod Touch so that they can carry around their book collection? I love the iPod as it is great to have a big music collection on the go, but if I'm reading a book, I'll just carry the one book, not my whole library.

seawolf17 Aug 22 2010 07:18 PM Re: iMadness (formerly "iFever")

I've been a Creative Labs mp3 player user for a bajillion years, but my third model just crapped out on me this week after four years, so it looks like I'm going to join the iRevolution. I'm oh so tempted to get the 64GB Touch, but I feel like the only reason I want it is so I can waste money on apps... so I'm going to save money and get what I really need, which is the 160GB iPod Classic. I can do the app thing when I upgrade my phone some day.

Valadius Aug 22 2010 09:45 PM Re: iMadness (formerly "iFever")

While I keep hearing whispers that they're going to phase out the iPod Classic, I could not disagree more with that possibility. I'm someone that likes to bring all my media with me wherever I go, so the 160GB remains essential for me in a way that the smaller-capacity Touch simply wouldn't satisfy. On train rides back and forth from Washington, for instance, I find it much easier to pass the time by watching TV shows and movies on my iPod. Same thing with my commute to and from work every day.