A young boy and his parents have sued Apple, Inc. over a new feature in their portable devices that they say have caused the boy to receive death threats, similar to those in "A Thin Line Between Love And Hate".
Little Jimmy Porter, 15, had left his iPhone 4 at school on his desk while he got up to write an answer on the board. "it was only for, like, 2 minutes," he said.
Those two minutes proved to be more dangerous than any short period of time in the history of Mankind. A classmate, Billy Boyle, picked up the phone and noticed that even though Jimmy's screen was locked, his girlfriend Katie had texted him a question: "do u think we'll alwayz b 2gethr?" Billy, being the sort to play a prank, took the opportunity to reply to the message, saying: "not unless u get a boob job lol"
Normally, such a message might be taken as a joke and laughed off, except that Katie was extremely self-conscious with her sub-size-A breasts. She didn't send a text back, but began stalking Billy and waving knives at him menacingly.
"Apple has to take responsibility for this," said Ms. Boyle. "I mean, who creates a feature where you can reply to text messages from a LOCKED phone? It's locked for a reason!"
Steve Jobs did not reply to a request for comment.