Word: walkman
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...alleged attacker was Michael Abram, 33, from the Liverpool suburb of Huyton. Nicknamed "Mad Mike" by neighborhood children, Abram was occasionally seen listening to a Walkman and serenading no one in particular from the balcony of his apartment. His mother told the Liverpool Echo that he had recently become obsessed with the Beatles but "hates them and even believes they are witches." He wore a Walkman, she said, "to stop voices in his head...