Time to invest in some real headphones:
West Midlands police have issued a stark warning to iPod users: ditch the white headphones or pay the price … The thief then asked Baskerville if he was listening to an iPod and, receiving an affirmative answer, he “pulled a knife out and started waving it at me, saying: ?Well hand it over, then.? I gave it to him and he ran off. He must have known I was wearing an iPod because of the white headphones.” (full story)
I ditched those white earbuds the day I got my iPod.