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What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Are Labubu Dolls Demonic?
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An ancient Mesopotamian monster is making a comeback in 2025.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
An iPhone, An Object Worth Killing For? Dying For?
Apple Picking: How The iPhone Became An Object Worth Killing For: " . . . Around midnight on April 19, 2012, Hwangbum Yang, a 26-year-old Korean immigrant and aspiring chef, finished work as a cook at an upscale Manhattan restaurant. He rode the No. 1 train uptown to the Bronx and started walking home in the rain. He was two blocks from his house when a man holding a gun approached him, according to police. The man -- whom police would later identify as Dominick Davis -- demanded Yang's iPhone. When he refused, Davis shot him once in the chest. Yang died on the sidewalk. Yang was still wearing the iPhone’s white earbuds when paramedics arrived, investigators told his sister. Davis had left his wallet untouched, but had taken his iPhone. Police later found the phone for sale on Craigslist for $400. . . ."
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