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Fuming man walks into Apple store and calmly smashes up every iPhone in sight (video)
The Mirror UK ^ | 30 SEP 2016 | BY KEYAN MILANIAN

Posted on 09/30/2016 10:35:50 AM PDT by Swordmaker


iPhones, iPads and laptops were severely damaged as the man used a metal ball to crack the screens in a shop within a French shopping centre

VIDEO

This was the moment a vandal calmly walked into an Apple store and began smashing iPhones, iPads and laptops with a metal ball.

The man, dressed in shades and wearing a backpack, was filmed as he walked from one tech stand to the next in a French shop.

He can be seen picking up iPhones , placing them on the counter then bringing a metal pétanque ball crashing down on the screen.

As he wanders through the store he smashes pieces of tech as he goes while ranting in French.

Eventually, a security guard jogs over and asks the man what he is doing.

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: applepinglist; crime; vandalism
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To: Swordmaker
A couple of weeks ago we had some friends in town visiting from Argentina. Since Apple isn't allowed to sell their products in Argentina, the woman wanted to go to the Apple store here in Boca Raton to upgrade her phone from 5 to 6.

She had hoped to get the 7, but they weren't available yet... and you can't trust the services in AR to have it shipped, so she went with a 6.

We waited about 15 minutes to get an Apple employee who then helped her choose a phone, then it took 2.5 hours to transfer her stuff from the old phone to the new one. Then, she had to go to a different store to have the SIM card cut to fit the new phone's slot, then return to the Apple store to finish the activation.

This took the entire afternoon!!!

Sheesh... whenever I upgrade my Android phone it takes them all of 5 minutes to do the entire process.

21 posted on 09/30/2016 11:03:50 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Swordmaker

If he destroyed 5 or more, he’s an Ace.


22 posted on 09/30/2016 11:10:33 AM PDT by SIDENET (Tagline free is no way to go through life, son.)
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To: Swordmaker

Eventually?


23 posted on 09/30/2016 11:14:02 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger)
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To: NonValueAdded

And he had to ask the guy what he was doing....

#securityguardsurrenders


24 posted on 09/30/2016 11:24:56 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Swordmaker

So is it Apple Lives Matter or is it Vandal Lives Matter?


25 posted on 09/30/2016 11:25:33 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Swordmaker

Maybe he was sent by his psychotherapist who thought it would be a good exercise for him in which he could release all his pent up rage against his mother who made him eat apples when he was growing up.


26 posted on 09/30/2016 11:26:16 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A

Europeans in general take their silly phones too seriously - they would die for them if they had to. Go anywhere in Europe and you will see people everywhere looking down at their phones and checking them constantly. It’s embarrassing to be among them.


27 posted on 09/30/2016 11:32:02 AM PDT by fision
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To: Cementjungle

Should’ve gone to a cellular carrier store instead of the Apple Store. They’re more efficient.


28 posted on 09/30/2016 11:40:58 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: fision

Doesn’t sound a whole lot different from here, to me.


29 posted on 09/30/2016 11:44:14 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Swordmaker

Anyone seen Vandekoik?


30 posted on 09/30/2016 11:51:46 AM PDT by itsahoot (GOP says, Vote Trump. But if your principles won't let you, Hillary is OK.)
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To: Cementjungle
Sheesh... whenever I upgrade my Android phone it takes them all of 5 minutes to do the entire process.

This is pure B$.

31 posted on 09/30/2016 11:58:12 AM PDT by itsahoot (GOP says, Vote Trump. But if your principles won't let you, Hillary is OK.)
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To: Swordmaker

The witty sarcasm in these comments is golden!


32 posted on 09/30/2016 12:05:32 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Too many angry bird losses.


33 posted on 09/30/2016 12:06:09 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: fision

Only in Europe?

Once, here in Texas, I saw a family at a restaurant around a table, all with their heads bowed. I though, “that’s great that at least a few families still pray before eating.” That was before I realized they were all looking down at their idiot phones.


34 posted on 09/30/2016 12:09:53 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: Swordmaker
Eventually, a security guard jogs over and asks the man what he is doing.

Um... I'm destroying private property. You?

35 posted on 09/30/2016 12:20:25 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Cementjungle

“We waited about 15 minutes to get an Apple employee who then helped her choose a phone, then it took 2.5 hours to transfer her stuff from the old phone to the new one. Then, she had to go to a different store to have the SIM card cut to fit the new phone’s slot, then return to the Apple store to finish the activation. “

With my impatience at this type of thing I would have gone NUTS.

.


36 posted on 09/30/2016 12:25:18 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Swordmaker
This was the moment a vandal calmly walked into an Apple store and began smashing iPhones, iPads and laptops with a metal ball.... Eventually, a security guard jogs over and asks the man what he is doing.

Well, that was the dumbest question of the week. Possibly the century.

37 posted on 09/30/2016 12:47:09 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. --Donald Trump (standing ovation)
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To: itsahoot
This is pure B$.

Nope... it's a very quick process.

38 posted on 09/30/2016 12:49:06 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Swordmaker

What, nobody had the Tazer app on their phone?


39 posted on 09/30/2016 1:13:59 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Red Badger

In my phone store brands are separated from other brands ...... He seemed to be walking from display to display initially .... sort of busting up every brand, not just apple.

Or was this just an Apple Store ??


40 posted on 09/30/2016 2:40:44 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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