news.com.com — As Errol Rose made preparations on Monday to bury his 15-year-old son, Christopher, who was killed last week in Brooklyn during a fight over an iPod, he received a telephone call from a stranger. The man spoke in tones that the grieving father said had momentarily quieted his anguish.
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cal0001Jul 6, 2005
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blackryn0Jul 6, 2005
I live in brooklyn and i use to live in that part of BK and ill tell ya its ruff if your not carefull they'll get you. Crime over there is really bad.
jaybeeJul 6, 2005
This is just too damn cynical. If you were to take "steve jobs" out of the equation, the story would be that one man called another man to express his condolences over his son's murder. Instead of a simple and thoughtful gesture, we attach the aura of celebrity to the story and debate the Public Relations and ulterior motives of some CEO none of us personally know. We assign points of karma for kindness and subtract measures of respect because of some cynical assumption that this was all done for the sake of publicity.As the man stated, "He told me if there is anything--anything--anything he could do, to not be afraid to call him. It really lightened me a bit." That's the only part to the story that matters, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks about motivations so long as that man felt just a little bit less pain for a moment. Ulterior motives and PR shouldn't be even mentioned in the discussion and it's really heartless to suggest otherwise when there's a dead kid in a coffin and a family grieving over him.Perhaps most shameful of all is that the this story about a phone call gets more diggs then the actual report of the murder. It just shows you where people keep their hearts these days.
evilJul 6, 2005
But since Steve Jobs is God, why didn't he just use his divine powers to bring the kid back to life?
alexhhhhJul 7, 2005
It was thoughtful of him and that's all really.
tbechtxJul 8, 2005
You can say a lot of things about Steve but basically he's a class act.
pacobellJul 11, 2005
Yeah, it brings the hackles up on the back of my neck when someone butchers the english language by saying "mute point". Thanks for the previous commenters for setting the record straight.