Well, that’s one way to end an argument about last month’s AT&T bill. A New York man has apparently been arrested after trying to ram his girlfriend’s iPhone down her throat.
37-year old patent attorney Brian Anscomb allegedly force fed his 23-year old girlfriend an iPhone during a fight on early Saturday, leaving bruises and cuts around her mouth.
Anscomb apparently has quite the temper, and his assaults seem to usually involve a cellphone in some capacity. In fact, it appears that the iPhone he tried to jam into his girlfriend’s mouth was a replacement for her last smartphone, which he snapped in half during a fight they had even earlier in the month. Bet she wishes she’d gotten a smaller, more easily digested smartphone, like an Veer, as a replacement instead.
Anscomb’s lawyer denies all charges.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
36 responses to “New York City Man Force Feeds His Girlfriend’s iPhone To Her”
Slow news day???
If someone has a problem visualizing it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… NSFW
iPhone Bitch!!!
Couldn’t resist. under no circumstances is violence the answer to anything, unless it solves the problem.
That’s hard to be a patent attorney these days, eh…
“an Veer”?
GET AN EDITOR.
That’s one hot girl in the photo. =p
I see that you can’t deal with the dumb phone anymore and went back to the iPhone.
Never hesitate to use force. It settles issues, influences people. Most people are not accustomed to solving situations by immediate and seemingly random applications of force, and the very fact that you are willing to do it – or might be – is a very powerful reasoning tool. Most people are not prepared to do that. You can establish the right reputation in this regard – you might, right in the middle of a conversation, just swat some motherf*cker across the room. Make his blood shoot out in bug spurts. I’m giving away trade secrets here.
-HST
There’s something tongue in cheeky about the tone of this post. Do you think what happened is funny? It’s not.
From the sound of it, he didn’t find the bill funny either.
Why, is the auto-correct in your brain broken? …LEARN TO READ PAST INSIGNIFICANT MISTAKES.
What a waste of oxygen. The girl could do better
Yes, insignificant maybe, but this is still a professional blog where these sort of grammatical and spelling errors shouldn’t be made.
If she had bought a Veer it would likely have lodged in her throat and she’d be dead right now. Also, a violent asshole boyfriend that assaults his girlfriend is not really an opportunity for humour.
Not funny. This just shows you up to be the same kind of guy as the idiot in the article. Even if you *thought* you were being sarcastic here, it shows that you fantasise about this kind of thing. How many women have you beat up big man?
Disgusting. Why do you use a girl avatar anyway? You’re pretty obviously not one.
Brownlee, please get the fuck out of here. Your sense of humor and spelling errors are atrocious
So, what sets them apart from us? They are HUMANS! People forget that professionals are humans too. I bet you don’t get on Steve’s case for not acting professional by wearing jeans and a sweatshirt instead of a suit.
The usual idea is that you would use NFC to set up the link between the two devices and then do an automatic hand over to a different protocol for doing the actual transfer of data – eg Bluetooth,iphone 5