iPod Charger Helps Nab Rapist

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A Long Island woman stabbed an attacker in the neck with her iPod charger, then managed to pick the twice-convicted rapist out of a police line up — he still had the prong marks from the charger on his neck.

According to a local paper, at 2 a.m. the rapist approached an 18-year-old as she was walking home from a friend’s place. He made a pretense of asking for directions, then put her in a chokehold and pulled her behind a church.

In the struggle, she stabbed him with an iPod charger which didn’t prevent the rape but became key in identifying her 23-year-old attacker.

Sources told the paper that by the time police rounded him up as a suspect, about a week later the rapist still bore “two prong marks on the neck from the charger.”

Wondering whether the European iPod charger with rounded prongs would come in as handy for impromptu self-defense.

Via Macenstein

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6 responses to “iPod Charger Helps Nab Rapist”

  1. mathue says:

    I guess now the criminal is pretty plugged in to current trends. ; )

  2. imajoebob says:

    The 2-prong Euro one is probably lethal. But the UK one has that stupid plastic prong, so keep an adapter handy.

  3. phoenix says:

    That’s really awesome. Damn right girl, put that bastard behind bars. :D