Authorities identify bicyclist killed by school bus

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Authorities have identified the bicyclist killed yesterday when he was struck by a school bus near Lake Calhoun.
The Hennepin County medical examiner says the victim was 30-year-old Adam Ray Finley of Minneapolis.

[ebrandel]

Read this on a gadget blog about why it took so long to identify him:
Adam Finley, a blogger on Engadget's sister blog TV Squad (http://www.tvsquad.com/bloggers/adam-finley/), passed away last week when his bicycle was hit by a school bus only two blocks from his apartment in Minneapolis. This tragic news did not reach Adam's family until nearly two days after his death, due to the fact that he was not carrying any identification; his only possessions at the time of the accident were some keys and his iPod. During that time Adam's family, friends, and colleagues were left unaware of his whereabouts until he was identified by investigators who brought his iPod to an Apple Store, where the company's corporate security office was able to cross reference it against their serial number database.http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/ipod-used-to-identify-crash-victim-fellow-blogger-adam-finley/

[soupboy]

Tragic. Rough news for that family.

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Its kind of cool to know if you register your ipod, that they can find out it belongs to you.