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Why is there suddenly national paranoia about iPods and their headphones. The Times devoted half of the whole of its front page to a story about how wearing the white headphones that ship with an iPod makes you a target for muggers.

The Register explains why:

West Midlands police have issued a stark warning to iPod users: ditch the white headphones or pay the price.

So how many people have actually been mugged for their iPods? Not many, I’d guess. The first I heard about this was a couple of months ago when the BBC rang me up and asked if they could send a TV crew out to film an interview with me in the office talking about how you can make yourself safe when wearing iPod earphones, but it was such a nothing story I turned them down.

In spite of that, the woman from the Express who rang me up today to do precisely the same interview for a piece she is writing for tomorrow’s edition seemed completely amazed that it wasn’t a piece of breaking news.

Anyhow, I did her the interview and there was a lot of tapping going on in the background as she typed out my words, so it’ll be interesting to see how it comes out when it’s published. I’ll pick up a copy on the way into work.

I wore my white iPod headphones with pride all the way home tonight, though. Lead by example, they say, so I’ll show the residents of Tottenham Court Road it’s safe to listen to music on the move.

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