Filed under: iPod Family, Odds and ends, Apple
Nano crushed by highway traffic
It's hot pink, obviously, so he did find it-- just in time to see an 18-wheel semi run it over. The gory results are below. We've seen Apple products take quite a licking and keep on ticking before, but apparently sitting on the highway for 30 minutes in Boise, ID will shut them down for good. Good to know.
Of course, the real question is: did AppleCare cover it?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
mark said 6:15PM on 8-29-2007
Of course AppleCare didn't cover it! Honestly, guys, sometimes...
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joseph folkmann said 6:23PM on 8-29-2007
well I think I can beat that with the idiot award of the year. I left my macbook on the roof of my car after leaving class at the end of the spring 07 semester. it didnt fall off until I got on the freeway. I saw it bounce off my car at 65 mph and smash right into the front grill of a semi.
I think I have pictures somewhere.
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OC said 7:06PM on 8-29-2007
uhg!!!!...its disgusting!!!!!...tuaw can at least put in a discraimer or something....
Anyway...id be really surprised if applecare covered this. After all this is a case of negligance...though you know...it would be nice if it did...just saying...:D
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G said 7:15PM on 8-29-2007
It's so thin!
@3 discraimer?
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Justin said 8:05PM on 8-29-2007
Kind of looks like a Zune® now.
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OC said 8:09PM on 8-29-2007
@#4. Forget it.
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Angela said 9:07PM on 8-29-2007
I sure hope he doesn't expect Apple to send him a new one just because he posted pics!
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Simon Arch said 9:26PM on 8-29-2007
Of course Applecare didn't cover it! They never cover Acts of Dodge. (boo, hiss!)
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gldfsh419 said 10:02PM on 8-29-2007
I have a 30GB iPod that was run over by at least one car. I found it in the parking lot at the shopping mall. Had it for 14 months, still runs quite well. :-)
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tigason said 11:11PM on 8-29-2007
Does AppleCare? Of course, NOT.
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WheelSee said 11:54PM on 8-29-2007
of course I think the real question is why does a guy have a hot pink iPod
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mr black said 12:32AM on 8-30-2007
kill the grandma
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Cameron said 12:52AM on 8-30-2007
@#11 You mean men can't own something pink? What, are they gay if they like pink? Just so you know, pre-WW1, pink was associated with men (as it was the watered-down version of that ever-vibrant red). Blue was for girls.
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William Laughlin said 6:55AM on 8-30-2007
@#13
wearing wigs back in the day used to be manly too but do you sport one of them too!!!
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Fred said 8:22AM on 8-30-2007
Aw hell, that's nothin! A little bailing wire, and some duct tape, we'll fix 'er right up! Course the alignment's never gonna be quite right again, but ya know...
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erica said 9:39AM on 8-30-2007
There is no way this was a 2GB nano. Pink only comes in 4GB. Does this make the rest of his story suspect?
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Harbinger said 10:32AM on 8-30-2007
#16
2G not 2GB.
Dude first forgets it in the driveway then inadvertently sends it careening into traffic, sucks for the Nano. Maybe he should chain his new one to his pants or something.
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revolverrb said 2:42PM on 8-30-2007
I did the same thing with a 5 month old black MacBook...flew off of the back of my car and sacrificed to the highway gods. I'll send you pictures if you want.
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tom.b said 9:45PM on 8-30-2007
I want to know how it got run over sideways.
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michas_pi said 5:39AM on 8-31-2007
I think the real question is, will it blen...oh wait.
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