Is that iPod blowing your mind?
posted July 20, 2009, 11:01 pm by hstisgod | Filed Under Music News | 
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Tags: iPod, You've Got To Be Kidding Me, Mafia, Apple
by Ross Miller, posted Jul 20th 2009 at 9:59PM
What you are about to read is from an actual court filing.
Gregory McKenna has filed suit against Apple, which he alleges is conspiring with the mob in an effort to coerce him to return to a New York-based modeling agency he quit in 2000. As explained in the 124-page complaint, an iPod shuffle he bought on eBay in 2005 and an iPod mini he bought new from an Apple store in 2006 — possibly a nano, as minis were discontinued a year prior — both contain receivers that have allowed the Mafia to send audio death threats that play in tandem with his music. The suit seeks $14.3 million total and lists ten defendants in all, including a local mechanic, a private investigator, the St. Louis Police Department, the FBI, and the US Department of Justice. While our initial reaction is to laugh at the ridiculousness of it all, it’s hard not to feel sad for McKenna and his state of mind — of course, if by some stroke of fate he manages to prove it was all one big conspiracy perpetrated by the Mafia, well, guess we’ll be ending up with egg on our faces.
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Wow…I’m speechless
And I thought Steve Berman suing Apple in ‘06 because “they make people go deaf” was bizarre. That’s just downright depressing. Anxiety is no laughing matter though; this guy is probably very troubled. I don’t see how making a big show out of it like this helps, but that’s our system for you.
Well… u may have a point, I’m adding to the stupidity by posting… but I guess its no different than the old school commercials…
“Kids, this is your brain on drugs…any questions?”
I certainly wasn’t saying you mentioning this at all was not cool. I was referring totally to his suit being accepted at all. Even if it doesn’t go to triall, that is a sure sign of someone that either needs serious mental help or a serious slap in the face for trying to manipulate the system. Almost too ridiculous to be true, but I am an avid believer that truth is almost always stranger than fiction.
Agreed… truth is always stranger than fiction….