Comments on: They Want Your Pod!

By: Alex Fear

Alex Fear — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:09:19 +0000

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…”

By: Sofar

Sofar — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:34:50 +0000

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

By: reply to greg

reply to greg — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:02:28 +0000

So, the criminals will go somewhere else. wow

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:57:24 +0000

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.

By: Alex Fear

Alex Fear — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:37:24 +0000

@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.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:19:36 +0000

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

By: dragon tryst

dragon tryst — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:18:08 +0000

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

By: dragon tryst

dragon tryst — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:16:36 +0000

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

By: Thebes

Thebes — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:04:04 +0000

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.

By: Neatoramawontsendmeapassword

Neatoramawontsendmeapassword — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:59:17 +0000

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

By: fireflicker

fireflicker — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:38:57 +0000

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

By: kid_icarus

kid_icarus — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:17:25 +0000

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

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:23:49 +0000

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.

By: LH

LH — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:17:23 +0000

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.

By: ted

ted — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:09:54 +0000

The guy in the coat looks like a flasher.

By: Invicta Red

Invicta Red — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:52:03 +0000

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?

By: ~Emma

~Emma — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:23:45 +0000

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

Or is that gun? I don’t remember.

By: R

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:02:37 +0000

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)

By: Sammy

Sammy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:03:53 +0000

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

By: Jan Karlsbjerg

Jan Karlsbjerg — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:57:57 +0000

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.