Steve Jobs' Stolen iPad Ended Up in Hands of Local Clown

[firewood]

I hope you don't ever need one in your life then.

I do need one. But there are no regular parking spots left, just these wasted unused handicapped spots.

And the cost of those parking spots and ramps is sometime greater than the cost of hiring part-time servants and personal chefs for the few people who might benefit. Why should the government mandate one and not the other? Go figure...

 

[bretm]

Parking in handicap spots is pretty douchey if you aren't handicapped.

Well, he's had debilitating pancreatic cancer, a failed liver, oh and he died. Let him park where he wants.

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Burgled is not a word in american english, You sound like blair JR.

burgle |ˈbərgəl|
verb
another term for burglarize.
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: originally a humorous and colloquial back-formation from burglar.

 

[NY Guitarist]

Requiring handicap spots and ramps that are rarely used by handicapped people is pretty douchey of the government. Stupid waste of pavement. They are also a very high income employment act for douchey non-handicapped lawyers.

That's the stupidest thing I think I've ever read on MacRumors. Sounds an awful lot like something a Rand-like sociopath would think.

 

[cgk.emu]

Your mom commented on this thread.

Pretty much what I expected from the level of intellect on this forum.

 

[Arran]

Clever headline from The Columbus Dispatch:

New owner of Steve Jobs’ iPad had big shoes to fill

Priceless

 

[manu chao]

I do need one. But there are no regular parking spots left, just these wasted unused handicapped spots.

And the cost of those parking spots and ramps is sometime greater than the cost of hiring part-time servants and personal chefs for the few people who might benefit. Why should the government mandate one and not the other?

So, in your ideal world the government would leave the choice whether to offer ramps or personal assistance to the company involved. Fine. But how do you ensure compliance? With a ramp, you have to check once whether the ramp is there, with personal assistance, you would have to check continuously whether it is offered.

Thus, is your example evidence that the government is stupid and unnecessarily meddling or is it evidence that you are convinced of your own superiority in knowing what would be the better solution (particularly if the 'better' solution would bring benefits to yourself)?

 

[Death-T]

Noteworthy or not, I find this news infinitely more amusing than all the relentlessly boring speculation on the next iPhone's slightly smaller charger...

 

[Fruit Cake]

3 iPads ? Geeze man how many he need?

 

[JAT]

Job's carried blank checks. He had no license or photo ID because he would have to stand in line at the DMV to get one.

State of CA backwards much?

 

[radardude]

I make a pretty decent salary and rarely have more than a few bucks on me.

From the list of your TOYs, I understand. LOL

 

[5534929]

I don't mind handicap spots, only mind when there is to many of them, like 12-16 you see at home depot.

 

[the8thark]

This is ridiculously close to being an article from The Onion.

I second this. This article has Onion smell all over it.

 

[terraphantm]

Remember when he had cancer, got a liver replacement, and went through chemo? Do you know anyone who had chemo? It's not the nicest of times, to say the least.

In the US you can get a handicap plate just for being moderately obese and complaining enough.

He wasn't always that unhealthy. He's been parking in handicapped spots long before it was justified.

 

[tech4all]

Next, Eric Schmidt's Android tablet winds up in the hands of a male stripper.

If he even owns one, that is. (Who'd want an Android tablet?)

Quit being an Apple fanboy. You've probably never even used an Android device and just put down anything that isn't Apple.

I have a Nexus 7 and it works great. 16GB for $250 which is half the price of the iPad with the same specs. 7" screen works fine for me. Although the iPad 3 screen is the best on the market. But didn't feel like shelling double the money just for 2.7" of screen.

Not being anti iPad. They're great machines. Heck the iPad's design is the best out there. Even better than the Nexus 7 IMO.

 

[cjmillsnun]

Because she doesn't care?

Bearing in mind that Laurene married Steve Jobs, and stayed with him even when he was close to losing everything he had (i.e. near the end of NeXT and before Toy Story was released), I would say she cared very much. That's quite an insensitive comment.

 

[pacalis]

An "invitation from London?" Several "iPods." A small "demo sized" Macbook.

What is this nonsense?

Anyway, got to run. London is calling.

 

[macmastersam]

this isn't funny...

 

[Dowjohnny]

that clown is scary as hell ^^

 

[Garrod]

I just woken up and this was the first thing I read. It feels like I'm in some sort of nightmare that's had Terry Gilliam's hand involved or something.

 

[Death-T]

Anyway, I find it odd the clown hasn't been charged with theft by receiving.

A person commits theft by receiving if the person receives, retains, conceals or disposes of property of another knowing or having good reason to know that the property was the subject of theft.

People have been convicted after buying stolen goods for suspiciously low prices--indicating they had 'good reason to know that the property was the subject of theft'. The clown's 'I got it from a friend and didn't know it was stolen' excuse has been shot down a million times in court for cheaper and less significant items.

I guess the cops didn't want any clownin' around.

 

[olowott]

of All Kinds of People , it Just had to be a Clown Dammit!!!

 

[mrinternet]

It's a good thing ... this bozo came forward

 

[Tricky_Trav]

Does anyone else find it ironic that someone who was known for calling people "Bozos" has his iPad end up in the hands of a literal clown?

 

[ixodes]

Hilarious & ever so appropriate. Always good for a laugh

 

[Arran]

Didn't apple lose an iPhone 4 prototype right before its launch?

Ended up with a clown too, IIRC.