Broken Beer Bottle Battle In Debate Over Merits of Android Over iPhone 134
HughPickens.com writes Lee Hutchinson writes at Ars Technica that platform loyalty is a powerful thing, as two roommates in Tulsa, Oklahoma stabbed each other with broken beer bottles in a debate over the relative merits of Android versus iPhones. Tulsa police were called to Evergreen Apartments at 1 a.m after a woman found a man covered in blood, stumbling around the parking lot and found that two roommates had been drinking and arguing over their mobile phones. The two men broke beer bottles and stabbed each other with them and one of the men smashed a bottle over the back of the other man's head. "In over 35 years as a cop, this is one of the oddest reasons I've seen for assault," says Maj. Rod Hummel. According to Channel 8 News, police had no comment when asked which phone was in fact better.
Why it did not go further (Score:5, Funny)
They would have escalated to a steel-cage death match, but the signal drop was too great,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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I have known very few people who really care about my choice of phone. But, then, I've never thought about starting the discussion with a drunk person.
Now I do see it here on Slashdot all the time; but in the real world, not so much. On the rare occasion it comes up, we usually end up talking about some feature on each other's phone that we like.
Re:Why it did not go further (Score:5, Insightful)
But, then, I've never thought about starting the discussion with a drunk person.
Agreed.
The three causes are clear enough in the news report: Two drunken roommates around 1:00 AM were in a fight. That's it. What they were arguing about is irrelevant.
Having heard drunks argue, I can assure you it was not an articulate and well-reasoned discussion. The argument could have been about anything from a favorite phone operating system to a favorite sports team or a favorite color. The fact that they reached for the nearest beer bottle as a weapon is unsurprising.
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The fact that they reached for the nearest beer bottle as a weapon is unsurprising.
We don't know from this article that it was in fact the nearest beer bottle which was reached for - perhaps there had been a previous equally spirited debate on beer and/or beer bottle quality. Given the evident discerning nature of the combatants I would guess the two reached for that beer bottle which, when broken, is the superior weapon.
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Having heard drunks argue, I can assure you it was not an articulate and well-reasoned discussion. The argument could have been about anything from a favorite phone operating system to a favorite sports team or a favorite color. The fact that they reached for the nearest beer bottle as a weapon is unsurprising.
Good point. I mean, arguing over who has the biggest di..phone and resolving the issue with broken bottles is kinda wimpy, nothing like the real arguments we had about serious issues like whether the Amiga was better than the Atari ST, which often came close to armed conflict. I mean, I personally beat some idiot to death with a VIC20 for suggesting that his Commie 64 was better than my IIgs. Now those were real arguments, none of this cellphone woosiness there.
Re:Why it did not go further (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Why it did not go further (Score:5, Funny)
Have you considered stabbing them with a broken beer bottle? Just a thought.
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This is why society would be better off legalizing marijuana. Just chill man.
Nobody ever got hurt by a broken spliff or hash-brownie. Okay, you could strangle someone with a hemp rope ...
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Just tell them that you're not a sheep and that you don't want to waste money on overpriced apple crap. People who buy apple products have more money than sense.
Good thing there aren't any beer bottles within your reach...
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You have a Blackberry, don't you?
Re:Why it did not go further (Score:5, Funny)
Wait until they find the body of the Windows Phone fanboy.
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>body of the windows phone fanboy is that like bigfoot? at least we have video of bigfoot
And like Bigfoot, Windows Phone Fanboy lives in the forests around Seattle.
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That's funny!!!
But fact is the Windows Phone fanboy wasn't actually invited to the party. Isn't that like most of us during our high school years?
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He was probably in a completely different geographical area. The one WinPhone Fanboy can't be everywhere!
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Why you being mean to me!
Re:Why it did not go further (Score:5, Funny)
The Android guy won the fight. After the beer bottles, they hit each other with their phones, but the iPhone guy dropped his; turns out he was holding it wrong.
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If only the iPhone can be held wrong, where are there so many instructions on how to hold Android phones correctly? http://dontholditwrong.tumblr.... [tumblr.com]
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The Android guy won the fight. After the beer bottles, they hit each other with their phones, but the iPhone guy dropped his; turns out he was holding it wrong.
Didn't it just bend? :-P
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You mean like this? http://www.cnet.com/news/oh-no... [cnet.com]
Samsung's response to this testing: "You're bending it wrong."
I'm not even kidding. They told SquareTrade to test it differently, as if that somehow invalidates the bent ones they have laying around the lab.
Those who do not understand the BSD vs System V... (Score:2)
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They would have escalated to a steel-cage death match, but the signal drop was too great,
At least, it would have been too great for the iPhone.
Or more accurately (Score:1)
Alcohol leads to bad decision making and can easily lead to an escalation over any petty debate..
It may be the oddest the police man has seen drunks fight over, but i doubt it was the most petty
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I'm just going to leave this here. [youtube.com]
Idiots ... (Score:2)
So two complete idiots almost earned themselves Darwin awards then?
Fucking morons.
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I don't know I have an iphone and it does what it is supposed to. I like it fine but I was working a fanboi the other day...
iphone this, ipad, that , macbook mabook macbook...
I was ready to hit him with a car just to get him to shut up.
root cause (Score:5, Insightful)
"In over 35 years as a cop, this is one of the oddest reasons I've seen for assault,"
You mean alcohol?
possibility + time = certainty (Score:2)
possibility that someone will argue over X types
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possibility that someone will get drunk and fight after arguing over X
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yes yes yes
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Hence the oddity. Ba-dum-tsh
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"In over 35 years as a cop, this is one of the oddest reasons I've seen for assault,"
You mean alcohol?
Pick a couple of rabid folks from the emacs vs. vi crowd, give them a case of Bud in long-necks . . . and you will probably end up with the same behavior.
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Nunchucks (Score:2)
Cops deal with crazy things all the time. The last time I listened to a scanner there was some guy under a bridge attacking people with Nunchucks.
News at 11! (Score:5, Informative)
Drunk people fight over stupid shit. Tune in this Sunday for our round-table debate: is this really news for nerds?
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is this really news for nerds?
Let's see ... they were fighting over Android vs. iPhone. That sounds like many Slashdot posts on a typical day. So yes, it's news for nerds.
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Drunk people fight over stupid shit.
You're missing the point. Oklahoma is a 3.2% beer state [wikipedia.org]. So they actually managed to get drunk enough on 3.2 beer to get into a brawl over phone OS's. That is some serious dedication. I'm guessing the bottles were used as weapons because the whole room was full of them, so there was nothing else to grab.
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Clearly you CAN make up for quality with quantity.
Finally a good reason for an assault. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm ashamed that vi vs. emacs never ended in a knife fight. The youngens are showing us up!!
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I'm ashamed that vi vs. emacs never ended in a knife fight. The youngens are showing us up!!
Years back I heard a rumour that at a conference in Australia that Theo de Raadt and a relatively big name Linux contributor got in an argument over autoconf which ended with them being physically restrained.
I don't know if it's true but it's one of the more awesome things I've heard.
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I'm ashamed that vi vs. emacs never ended in a knife fight. The youngens are showing us up!!
No offence to Vi users but have you ever tried using Emacs? With those kinds of finger gymnastics the Emacs user would win a knife fight in a heartbeat.
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Yea, but the vi folks have the mad left hand reach for the ESC key thing going on.
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Meta-x Meta-c Meta-shank
I'm a vim user for life, but I'm pretty sure there's an emacs command for knife fighting.
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Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-SHIV!
It's one of the lesser-known commands, even if it is hidden in the acronym.
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What about: Tab vs Spaces?
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Tabs!! I could so give a beat down to everyone who indents code with spaces. Thanks for bringing it up, now I'm just amp'ed up and ready to throw down!
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Spaces muthafucka!
This can only be settled by a cage match, with the cage suspended over a shark tank filled with ravenous clowns!
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No, no, a Clown Tank [tumblr.com] is totally different.
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Perhaps the sharks are still in there, but they're afraid of clowns too?
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Tabs, change your damned tab stop if you want to ;-)
They had knives back then? (Score:2)
Clubs and sticks maybe... perhaps some stone tools, but that is about it.
Re:Finally a good reason for an assault. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm ashamed that vi vs. emacs never ended in a knife fight.
It did. Sort of.
The emacs dude ran M-x knife-fight.
The vi dude ran :s/knife/pillow/g.
The rest of the fight was obscured by flying feathers.
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Tsss. There nothing better than a good slap of keyboard in the face of an emacs user. I've heard that's the recommended way to do those pesky combinations of keys on emacs.
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I'm ashamed that vi vs. emacs never ended in a knife fight. The youngens are showing us up!!
Because their tools are softened enough to not hurt anybody. You need sed to do that.
Obviously Blackberry (Score:2)
Since anyone using it would be embarrassed to admit it, there won't be any fights over it...
They needed this phone case... (Score:2)
Can we all agree (Score:5, Informative)
Can we all at least agree that the sorry excuse for a motherfucker who made the default iOS keyboard that doesn't change the case of characters with the state of the shift key needs a good shanking?
If there's any single developer that needs a stabbing, it's that guy.
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Android lets you change keyboards. IOS has something that appears to do this, but it randomly reverts (such as when entering passwords) and is terribly limited compared to Android, not even supporting dictation.
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Siri does not work with all applications like a keyboard does. I cannot open an arbitrary app's arbitrary text field and dictate into it; this means the only reason I can dicatate youtube searches is because the Youtube app specifically implemented it.
Try SwiftKey for android and you will see what I mean. Dictation is a part of the keyboard, and does not rely on the "personal assistant" app knowing where to stick text.
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It left me scratching my head as to why someone would do such a ridiculous thing where the only indication that you were typing in uppercase was the shift key highlighted a different colour.
My guess is that they wanted the keyboard to look like a traditional keyboard with the non-ch
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To be fair the extra couple of lines of code may have caused keyboard lag on early IOS devices like my iPod touch 3g. A capable device it was not!
My later iPod touch 4g could probably have handled it but then but then they would have had different devices exhibiting different behavior.
Typed on my droid with it's correctly capitalized keyboard.
Debate? (Score:1)
two roommates in Tulsa, OklahomaÂstabbed each other with broken beer bottles in a debateÂ
I wasn't on the debate team in school, but I'm pretty sure once you start using whatever is within arms reach as a weapon to physically attack your opponent, it's no longer a "debate". Or perhaps this is some new definition of the word.
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I wasn't on the debate team in school
Obviously.
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It is the continuation of debate by other means.
Apologies to Carl von Clausewitz.
Tulsa, go figure (Score:1)
Tulsa, where they filmed both The Outsiders and UHF--with good reason.
So of all places, it makes perfect sense to me.
Siri... (Score:2)
...get me an ambulance.
"Sure. Ordering you a ham sandwich."
Who won? (Score:5, Funny)
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Pinky out, near the exit, and over/under, right?
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Yeah gads man, way to leave us with a cliffhanger. What were the correct responses!
Zombie Apocalypse (Score:2)
As a part time bartender i can attest, chances are likely it was a healthy dose of booze that brought this on. Ive had customers that beat the crap out of eachother for disagreements over how to hold a martini, where to park during a football game, and how to lace shoes properly in the event of a zombie apocalypse.
I can understand the martini and laces, but why would you go a football game during a zombie apocalypse?
Isn't there an App for that? (Score:3)
Why did they have the smash physical beer bottles - isn't there an App for that?? ;)
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Why did they have the smash physical beer bottles - isn't there an App for that?? ;)
Responding to each other's talking points with the fart app might have been a contributing factor to things escalating.
Clearly Android wins! (Score:2)
I mean with it's larger screen, removable storage device, and replaceable battery it definitely has the advantage.
What? Oh wait... nevermind.
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I mean with it's larger screen, removable storage device, and replaceable battery it definitely has the advantage.
What? Oh wait... nevermind.
The Android guy won because the Iphone guy could only use one bottle at a time.
Chevy vs Ford? (Score:2)
The cop says it was the oddest reason he's seen for an assault, but this is Tulsa, and two rednecks going at it over Ford vs. Chevy pickups is nothing noteworthy there.
They both got it wrong (Score:1)
Keep the beer, toss the phones