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4 hurt, glass broken in tussle in iPad 2 line at Beijing Apple store

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 08 May 2011 2:16 User comments (7)

4 hurt, glass broken in tussle in iPad 2 line at Beijing Apple store Hysteria over the launch of the iPad 2 has led to four would-be buyers being injured, and a glass door being smashed through at the Beijing flagship Apple store.
The state press says four people were taken to the hospital after "a foreign" Apple employee jumped into the crowd "to beat" people who had allegedly cut in line.

In response, the crowd smashed the glass front door and rushed the store in anger, leaving those four injured.

Just like in the United States and other nations, there were hours worth of lines for the iPad 2, which just went on sale in China this weekend.

The store closed and has not yet re-opened, and a sign has been posted saying "queue jumping and the unauthorised sales of Apple products would not be tolerated."

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7 user comments

18.5.2011 11:09

FREAKS!!

28.5.2011 12:17

ROFL!!!

38.5.2011 15:13

What people haven't realized is that this is perfect!
The mac lovers will eventually kill each other off!
seriously, get their leader [Jobs] to autograph an ipad and throw it into a crowd and watch them kill each other over it!

48.5.2011 15:17

Originally posted by flyingpen:
What people haven't realized is that this is perfect!
The mac lovers will eventually kill each other off!
seriously, get their leader [Jobs] to autograph an ipad and throw it into a crowd and watch them kill each other over it!
Natural selection. It just works. Please no one get too butthurt, i'm just joking.

58.5.2011 16:01

LOL. What a bunch of losers Apple Fanboys are. Little do they realize they can go next door and buy a small netbook with more functionality, better performance, and for half the price of an iPad.

68.5.2011 21:29

Originally posted by flyingpen:
What people haven't realized is that this is perfect!
The mac lovers will eventually kill each other off!
seriously, get their leader [Jobs] to autograph an ipad and throw it into a crowd and watch them kill each other over it!
BRAVO. :)

710.5.2011 02:20

apple nuts do have one advantage over us all, if the world was on the verge of a zombie apocalypse they'd all be immune. cant infect the already infected you know.

Uuuuuhhhh....I...pa...d....Nuaaaaaahhhhh.

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