“Now any true gangsta’ knows, nobody be messing wit’ our iPod and shit.” That’s probably something like the mentality these kids at Germantown High School were under when they beat the living hell out of a teacher who had taken away their iPod. We’ve talked about the lengths at which people would go for their iPods before but we can not get over this. A 17 and 15 year old boy either punched or helped trip Frank Burd, 60, where he then hit his head . Burd was taken to Albert Einstein Hospital where he is being treated for two fractures in his neck, which luckily do not involve paralysis. The two unknown little squirts who committed the crime were arrested for aggravated assault, simple assault, and reckless endangerment. Whereabouts of the iPod are unknown at this time, but we fear the worst. — Andrew Dobrow

Philly Teacher Assaulted Over iPod [PhysOrg]