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Lawsuit claims Apple, Mafia sent threats via iPod | Apple - CNET News

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:41 PM EDT
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Gregory McKenna, of Florissant, Mo., is suing Apple because he says two of the company's iPods contained illegal receivers that allowed the Mafia to send him threatening messages, according to court documents obtained by CNET...

...The alleged motive for the threats was that the Mafia wanted McKenna to work as a fashion model for them at a New York modeling agency. McKenna said he called local police and the FBI field office, but allegedly nothing was done. This allegedly allowed the Mafia members to "stalk, threaten, attempt rape, and kidnap" him.

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Josh of Arc

This happened to me too! Except the mafia wanted me to put my shirt back on...

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Reply#1 - Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:41 PM EDT
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Brian Ford

Steve Jobs should resign. Too many frivolous lawsuits, too much interest in his personal life.

It's what any good point guard would do.

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Reply#2 - Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:10 PM EDT
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Holly-348328

So that's who stole my iPod.

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Reply#3 - Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:53 PM EDT
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MarkD-555

Even more amazing is that his headphones send these messages in a frequency only he can hear.

Technology is wonderous.

At least they weren't all paranoid delusions about people wanting him dead, at least some of the voices in his head(phones) thought highly enough of him that they wanted him to be a model.

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Reply#4 - Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:48 AM EDT
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gladbutterfly

Maybe his Shuffle was morphing into an iPhone;-)

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    Reply#5 - Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:23 PM EDT
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