iWay robbery: iPod's a dud for a mugger
GEORGINA ROBINSON
March 9, 2010 - 4:38PM

It appears you won't get mugged for your iPod in Sydney any more.

A 15-year-old boy found out the good news at gun point in the city's south yesterday.

Police said the teen was walking along Strickland Crescent at Ashcroft when a youth with a black handgun and a purple streak in his hair approached him and demanded he hand over money.

"[The boy] offered him an iPod but the attacker didn't want that," Green Valley Local Area Command duty officer, Inspector Siobhan Busetto, said.

The youth ran away, leaving the boy unharmed and still in possession of his mp3 player.

Inspector Busetto said the boy thought he might have seen his attacker before.

"He thought it was someone who attended [his] high school a number of years ago ... and that's part of our investigation," she said.

The boy had short blond hair with a rat's tail. He was described as white or European in appearance and was about 15 or 16.