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| 2008/11/14-26 [Consumer/CellPhone, Computer/Companies/Apple] UID:51981 Activity:nil |
11/14 Angry sysadmin gets iPhone stolen out of his hands while riding Muni,
pummels
thief, retrieves phone, gets back on train
http://tinyurl.com/5poc89 (from http://valleywag.com)
\_ huh i know that guy. he's a KALX dj.
\_ Muni actually
\_ oops, tnx |
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| tinyurl.com/5poc89 -> cs.cementhorizon.com/archives/2008_11_14_that_should_be_an_apple_ad.php I figured I'd travel light today and didn't bring my blue messenger bag, just my AskJeeves lunchbox and my iphone+headphones. The train was not very full, I think I got the last seat and there were a few people standing. I put my lunchbox on my lap and started watching my movie. All of a sudden a hand from behind me grabs the iPhone and it's gone. At this point I was lucky to get to see a part of me that isn't usually expressed. I think of myself as a thoughtful guy who's pretty laid back so what followed was a surprise. The second the phone leaves my hand I jump up, lunchbox falling to the ground and run outside the train to see the guy who grabbed my phone running from the train. He's only about 6 feet from the train door at this point since I jumped the second the he grabbed the phone. I jumped on his back and got my arm around his neck tackling him to the ground. We slide up against the brick wall that makes up the stairs going up at Church. I bring my other arm around and push his face into the corner of the wall and the ground with my elbow. " I stand up with him still on the floor, now with phone in hand and begin walking back to the train briskly in order to not miss it. I'm looking down to check that I haven't gotten hurt or torn my clothes or anything. Before getting to the door of the train I turn and the guys still on the ground in the corner and I yell "Fuck you!" which after doing it I felt may have been a bit overboard as it echoed through the massive concrete station. I then turned back and stepped onto the train, for the first time looking up to see a train full of people staring mouths agape. I'm immediately embarrassed since an outburst like that is clearly outside of the allowed social interactions on the morning commute muni. I manage a somewhat silent "Sorry" as I walk back on the train, in the same almost inaudible voice one uses when saying "Excuse me" in order to get up from a seat or to sit down if someone's in your way. I walk back to my seat where my lunchbox is on the ground and everyone is talking to each other. I sit down and begin checking out my phone to see if it's destroyed but it's fine. Someone else on the train says above the murmur of conversations "That should be an Apple ad" and everyone laughs. Headphones are a little jacked up and I've got a bloody forehead and knuckles but not that much worse for wear. I guess my findings from this event are : * I don't think of it but when carrying a 16GB 3G iPhone around you're essentially carrying a very liquid, high demand, easy to fence, $500 object. ASP Tri-Fold Tactical Restraints every where I go, but had I had my messenger bag with me today they sure would have come in handy. Not sure how to mitigate this risk, I'll have to think about it Posted by gene_wood at November 14, 2008 10:21 AM Comments Seriously awesome! I don't blame you at all for wanting to chase down someone. As much as a phone is a utility or entertainment device, it also serves as a lifeline to the outer world and a functional life manager, I find a huge emotional attachment as well. at November 14, 2008 01:16 PM From the Valleywag comments: "This Gene Wood fellow seems like the shizznickle, though. I still say you should have tried fluffy fingers before resorting to this violence. |
| valleywag.com Googling the vote Google CEO Eric Schmidt, left, sits at a campaign event for Barack Obama in October. YouTube's growing role in politics makes Schmidt an unelected Washington player. Rearden Commerce cuts 50 people A tipster sent in word that Rearden -- an e-commerce startup from Foster City -- is rumored to have cut 72 people. The company provides a "personal assistant portal" that streamlines travel planning, reservations, and general logistics within corporations. Our tipster's contention is that no one, especially customers, is quite sure just what exactly the company does. Rearden raised $100 million in funding back in April of this year and claims to have signed off service contracts with 1,700 companies. com, flopped to accommodate the right-to-left Hebrew script. Right down to the icons, it mirrors the website developed by Blue State Digital, reports the New York Times. Israel only has a couple thousand Twitter users, making it an unlikely get-out-the-vote mechanism. The imitation is meant as flattery: Netanyahu and Obama have met twice and are said to get along, and the Israeli candidate is campaigning on a similar theme of change. Eric Schmidt and the YouTube election Is YouTube making Google a political player? YouTube, having conquered online video, is taking over political broadcasting. The conventional unwisdom in Manhattan and Washington, DC, is that this election made YouTube. It's true that campaign videos spread faster than ever thanks to YouTube. But they made up a tiny fraction of clips and traffic on the site. Google sends tourists looking for wrong subway line As a stunt, Google has wrapped subway trains in New York City with ads for Google Maps. Inside, ads give specific directions to tourist landmarks like Madison Square Garden. misplace Grand Central Terminal by several blocks, directing people to subway lines which do not run through the station. A mistake we can see someone sitting in a cube in Mountain View making -- but doesn't Google have a large New York office full of employees who might have been called on to vet the ads in their 20 percent time? Barack Obama's going to upload to YouTube, reports the Washington Post. The WaPo says the Obama administration will also make "online Q&As and video interviews" part of its communications strategy. wrestled a mugger to the ground rather than lose his iPhone, for which he paid $499. While riding on a subway train in San Francisco and watching a movie, Wood felt a hand reach behind him and snatch the phone. Wood, who is 6 feet tall and weighs 240 pounds, jumped from his seat and pursued the thief. Bill Joy sells $40 million condo to Hugh Jackman at half off Dreamily inventive billionaire Bill Joy, the cofounder of Sun Microsystems, has predicted doom for the human race in the pages of Wired. The donation is an open secret within Clarium, and it has enraged several staff members who joined Clarium because they believed Thiel shared their libertarian ideals. When I asked Thiel if he'd made the donation, an underling passed on a nondenial saying the company didn't comment on "gossip and heresy." A typo -- he meant to say "hearsay" -- but a suggestive one. |