Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Stabbed for iPod

Sure, it only happens to others right? Nothing bad can possibly happen to me, walking around oblivious to my surroundings while listening to music? Not in this nice neighborhood? Surely no one is going to harm me for a lousy $150?

Story:
A 48-year-old man was stabbed in the back by a teenage boy attempting to steal his iPod nano. The man was cutting across a ball field to his home across from an elementary school when police say a 17-year-old boy stabbed him once in the lower right section of his back.

The suspect never threatened the victim before approaching about 1:30 a.m., police said. The man, who often takes late walks up to nine miles, sprinted the final few hundred yards from the school and woke his sister.

A King County sheriff's spokesman said it's non uncommon for people to be mugged for iPods, "but the stabbing is the unusual part." In this case, the victim got away before the thieves could take the device.

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