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Lawyer Allegedly Tried To Shove iPhone Down Girlfriend's Throat
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John Del Signore
Published Jul 20, 2011
Modified Jul 20, 2011
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Brian Anscomb, an attorney who resides on the Upper East Side, seems to have anger management issues when it comes to cell phones and his girlfriend, according to court papers obtained by the Post. On July 10th, Anscomb, 37, allegedly snapped his 23-year-old lady friend's phone in half during a dispute, then gave her a black eye. Now the so-called "iPerp" is back in trouble: law enforcement officials tell the Post the patent attorney "stuffed an iPhone down his girlfriend's throat" during a domestic dispute in their "posh" York Avenue home on July 16.
The altercation left the poor woman with bruises and cuts on her mouth. Anscomb was arrested on Sunday, and his lawyer tells the tabloid, "We deny all of the allegations." It's unclear how far the iPhone made it down the victim's throat, but surely there's an app to get it out. What we really need is an app to kill all the lawyers, amirite?
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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