They Want Your Pod!

• Jan Karlsbjerg
  July 8th, 2008 at 2:57 am

  Wow, that’s pretty much free advertising for Apple there. They use “pod” instead of “iPod” for copyright cover-your-ass purposes, but then they do the headphone cable outline silhouette style graphics.

  Plus of course the mp3 player itself looks suspiciously like an iPod, though I’ve never seen one of those things belt-mounted Blackberry-style like that.

• Sammy
  July 8th, 2008 at 3:03 am

  In Canada, they plan to do this at border crossings.

• R
  July 8th, 2008 at 4:02 am

  They want our pods! The pod people have run out of their own! Soon they’ll be after our triffids!

  (and once you realize that both figures are facing the same way, you can see just how terrifying the pod-people’s appearance is — with their backwards feet and one massive upper lip)

• ~Emma
  July 8th, 2008 at 4:23 am

  I’ll give you my iPod when you take it from my cold, dead hands!

  Or is that gun? I don’t remember.

• Invicta Red
  July 8th, 2008 at 6:52 am

  I live in Lambeth. It’s not the nicest part of the world, there is crime but, fortunately, I’ve never been a victim. What good do these posters really do, though? Other than to foster a climate of fear. Maybe that’s part of their real purpose?

• ted
  July 8th, 2008 at 7:09 am

  The guy in the coat looks like a flasher.

• LH
  July 8th, 2008 at 7:17 am

  I agree with Jan. At first sight I thought this was an Apple ad, and no one will stop using the “pods” in the streets just for a billboard.

• CheeseDuck
  July 8th, 2008 at 8:23 am

  No mugger steals my iPod or I just might go all Joe Horn on his ass and shoot him in the back with a shotgun.

• kid_icarus
  July 8th, 2008 at 11:17 am

  so, would you call these thugs pod people? omg….it’s invasion of the body snatchers in some weirdly different way!

• fireflicker
  July 8th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

  I think they are just to lazy to select their own music

• Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
  July 8th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

  I thought “pod” was a euphemism for something else.

• Thebes
  July 8th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

  Too bad the UK is a society of victims, waiting patiently for armed criminals to ask for their stuff. I would guess that even using one’s fists to try to protect their “pod” would result in criminal charges against the true victim.

• dragon tryst
  July 8th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

  wow. thats where all the “mildly scratched” iphones\pods come from… we should have them checked for prints

• dragon tryst
  July 8th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

  exactly why I carry a fake Ipod with me everywhere I go!

• Christophe
  July 8th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

  Yep pod has another meaning which put “they want your pod” totally in another context
  check #2
  http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pod

• Alex Fear
  July 8th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

  @dragon tryst

  Fake iPod sounds awesome idea. What do you use for it? Also would be cool to put a mini explosive in which triggers when you press play- but then Pod victim falls victim to more important law of anti-terrorism.

  No poster-warnings there, just surveillance and arrest.

• Darren
  July 8th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

  Putting signs up sure beats having an effective police presence!

  The inclusion of the complaint line, sorry, Crime”stoppers” phone number is a nice touch too.

• reply to greg
  July 8th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

  So, the criminals will go somewhere else. wow

• Sofar
  July 8th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

  Ah, a pun, or a play on words. But I digress, this sign shows prejudice against people who wear puffy down jackets.

• Alex Fear
  July 8th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

  Actually I was going to suggest puffy down-jacket man is the potential victim here. iPod guy seems to have the shirtless Bruce Lee thing going on… my guess is he’s going to put a roundhouse kick on puffy before he can say “Gimme that…”

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