Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Apple, Store, Shooting, Virginia | Themes: Smartphones, Audio/Video Players
A man fired his weapon at a Virginia Apple Store, however its unknown if he was looking for cash, looking for merchandise, or was pissed off that the new iPhone 3GS burned his hands.
The Washington Post is reporting that a man shot an Apple Store employee in Arlington, Virginia earlier this morning around 10:15 am (EST). According to police reports, the alleged robber rang the doorbell at the back door entrance, and then shot the 26-year-old female employee answering the door. The report said that an additional employee was also on duty, located in the main showroom, and called the police once he heard the gunshot.
Detective Crystal Nosal, a police spokeswoman for the Arlington police, said it was unclear if words were exchanged between the suspect and the female employee, nor has the police determined if the suspect was actually after money, merchandise, or was ticked off over recent issues with the new iPhone 3GS. Recently Apple has come under fire in regards to its just-released iPhone, an upgraded version that sports improved hardware, additional features, and the new OS 3.0.
Although AT&T claims record numbers with its release, end-users have discovered that the highly anticipated device overheats to a great extent. Apple suggests that users operate the iPhone when temperatures are between 32 degrees and 95 degrees Fahrenheit. "Low or high-temperature conditions might temporarily shorten battery life or cause the device to temporarily stop working properly," the company said in its revised heat advisory. Apple also stressed that users should not leave the device in parked cars.
As for the suspect, the U.S. Park Police and Arlington police K-9 units searched for the armed man but came up empty handed (or empty pawed). The suspect was last seen fleeing the scene on foot, wearing a light-colored, short sleeve shirt, light-colored long pants, and a dark baseball cap. The suspect was also carrying a handgun, although the reports did not indicate if he had burn marks on his palms resulting from an overheated iPhone 3GS.
"I think it's a sign of the times, the economy, when you have someone desperate enough to rob an Apple store in an area like this," said Joe Punaro, a customer who showed up at 11 a.m. to find crime-scene tape and police cars littering the parking lot.
The unnamed female employee victim received a bullet in the shoulder, however her injury is not considered life threatening.
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He must have opened up his mac and then looked at the price tag.
See, this is exactly why I hate fanboys.
i know its not funny but..... LMAO
well, at least you managed to squeeze a few words about that woman's condition at the end... WTF, we are supposed to care more about a living creature than an iShit overheating...
my 2 cents
Sounds like more of a 3gs bash story than an attempted murder one.
well, at least you managed to squeeze a few words about that woman's condition at the end... WTF, we are supposed to care more about a living creature than an iShit overheating...my 2 cents
We already care more about animals than human beings. Why not tech?
yeah i agree with doc70. I thought the girl wasn't hurt at all, tell us about the people's condition first and then about whatever else.
why is this article more concerned about overheating issues(which may or may not be realted in the slightest) than the actual event?
As much as i hate Apple this article is in poor taste, someone has been shot and all the authur can comment on is the fact the new iPhones overheat?
Well maybe ask her what they were talking about before shooting, DUUUH.
lawl? Like others stated, the author seemed to prefer ridiculing the new iphone's issues over someone's potential near death experience....for all we know she cheated on that guy and he shot her in the shoulder, he didn't actually shoot up the store if he shot a "person".
This article is stupidly misleading and uninformative.
He was just explaining his joke about the burnt hands... and I think the title goes great with the article, its a figure of speech, jeez you guys are harsh!
I'm curious what his (the shooter) motives were though.
As I logged into Tom's this afternoon, I was actually thinking about how I was glad the fake/joke entries were gone. Then I read this one, and couldn't help but notice the fun being made.
Some guy just randomly shot an Apple store employee. This is both scary and ridiculous. This story just goes into a big list of random shootings that keep happening all over this country, where some nut job just goes in shooting at everyone for whatever reason.
Yet the article makes fun of police K-9's coming up "empty pawed" and talks about the suspect having burned hands from his iPhone even though there is no factual support that the guy even has an issue with an iPhone to begin with.
This is not journalism. I just keep hoping for more from Toms.
And let the iphone haters begin on this story...He was prob pissed about no other network not being able to have a iphone killer yet. "Damnit I thought the Palm Pre would be it, thats it! Im going down to the apple store and shoot them all" lolol
Well, on a positive note, at least he didn't use a Mac to shoot that poor woman.
well, at least you managed to squeeze a few words about that woman's condition at the end... WTF, we are supposed to care more about a living creature than an iShit overheating...my 2 cents
Mac fan boys were more worried about the iPhone 3GS stock, obviously.
i thought this was toms weekly satire
Interesting story, At first I thought the title read, "Man Shoots Up at Apple Store". Haha, not quite right.
well, at least you managed to squeeze a few words about that woman's condition at the end... WTF, we are supposed to care more about a living creature than an iShit overheating...my 2 cents
Lol, I know. Some man shows up to an Apple store and shoots a 26-year old female employee and all this speculation about an overheating iPhone. You really think that was the motive for attempted murder? It could of been that she was his ex or some sort of relationship gone bad but the first thing Tom's Hardware wants to explain is the overheating iPhone.
i believe it was that crazy bill gates. he was pissed about apples success with the ipod and the iphone
Thanks Tom's website for bring this story with such a good title. The war between apple lovers and apple haters continue to flame on.
I have a friend that works at att and i asked him did anyone return the ipone 3gs to the store for over heating problem in sf he said no.
I'm afraid this is the kind of article that gives this site a bad name. When reporting on someone being shot in an armed robbery, it's not really the place for poking fun. Compare this to the article by a leading Mac website reporting the same story: http://www.macrumors.com/2009/07/0 [...] ail-store/
The fact that someone was shot is clearly told even in the title of their report. Here, its almost an afterthought. Before anyone questions the lack of the completely irrelevent aspect of the iPhone 3G overheating, they leave that to another story.
Well, I guess his iLife sucked!! He wanted his money back!!
tasteless.. keep digging that hole tom's article writers
3 different messages in one article...
"Man Shoots Up Apple Store" = Man goes on a rampage inside an apple store.
"A man fired his weapon at a Virginia Apple Store" = Man fires gun at an apple store from a distance.
"a man shot an Apple Store employee in Arlington" = armed robbery.
seriously... wtf
God! this is a new low for Toms
Hmm, I wonder if the 'armed man' was Obama, pissed that Apple turned down his "Hope" poster image as in the other story here
It bothers me that a young woman shot up by an idiot at an Apple store is only referred to as an Apple employee. Is this information reported in order of information? Is she an Apple employee first, then a 26 year old female second? is she a person at all in this, or is she just a piece of corporate property?
This sounds far more like a domestic dispute then a problem with tech.
"Recently Apple has come under fire in regards to its just-released iPhone"
lots of puns lately. Did the other employee make the 911 call on an iphone? "iPhone saves fellow employee" is a good headline.
Made my day!
Farfetched and absurd but still funny!