Those Apple Store Employees are Brave in today's terrorism climate with that backpack he could have easily had a Bomb I would have evacuated quick fast.
I understand he wanted a "refund" but for what why ?
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Angry customer destroys an Apple Store in Dijon France !
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I understand he wanted a "refund" but for what why ?
He is brave and probably sitting in a jail cell currently, while am sitting on my sofa...
It seems as though the release date wont help unless you want a Rose Gold iPhone 7, at least here in Australia. I have 5-6 more weeks to wait and I pre-orderedHe destroying them and my country still waiting for the iPhone 7 release date
And as for the video - I hope he has to pay full price for each and every item that he damaged
People only do this because they have no fear of anybody interfearing. Everyone is afraid to get involved but quick to pull out the camera. I know everyone is not an MMA fighter but any two guys watching that could have stopped him and held him for the cops.
French guy is a lot braver than this pushover American after being physically manhandled and falsely accused of shoplifting without an apology.
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/55as44/where_to_report_apple_store_experience/
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/55as44/where_to_report_apple_store_experience/
In Canada, with our lax laws, even individuals charged in knife stabbing incidents get out on a promise to appear and are sitting on THEIR sofas.
€50k sounds a lot for what he damaged. About twice the amount I would estimate. I assume the damages include a punitive element.
Nope. In today's politically correct environment you are not allowed to touch the guy until he's about to harm someone else. If crazy people can make a scene in an airplane at 30,000 ft and forces the plane to divert, causing big loss$$ to the airline and inconvenience to passengers don't get jail time, what is a few iPhone worth? They should at least be forced to do 1 year community service but nope, everybody is spoiled.
It seems as though the release date wont help unless you want a Rose Gold iPhone 7, at least here in Australia. I have 5-6 more weeks to wait and I pre-ordered
And as for the video - I hope he has to pay full price for each and every item that he damaged
It's really taking a lot of time with this launch. they usually release the new iPhones here later October but not announcement yet
It's really taking a lot of time with this launch. they usually release the new iPhones here later October but not announcement yet
Still no announcement? Darn thats bad. I wonder if the delays that most other countries are experiencing are the reasons they are delaying releases in the next round of countries? 6-8 weeks delay at the moment for the first round of release countries, so you could imagine the issues if they started releasing them elsewhere - they would not get them until the new year!
The property damage will be covered by insurance. It's probably a policy that they don't put themselves at risk by intervening.
Were any iMacs damaged in the video? It looks as though some of them have large black spots, but I'm not sure. The furniture is also pretty expensive.
4 iMacs - say €2500 each
12 iPhones - say €1000 each
1 MacBook - say €1500
Still nowhere near €50k. Perhaps there was also damage to some of the tables. Even so, seems that €50k is excessive for compensation.
Perhaps more details will filter out at a later date, as a consequence of the legal process. The video-recording may omit certain acts.
He is scheduled to appear on October 4.
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Senseless, he has only served to put himself on the wrong side of the law, and incur significant cost. EU has plenty of mechanisms to deal with customer protection/dissatisfaction, being as ass not being one of them. As unhappy he currently is with Apple`s service it`s going to burn that much more now he has to pay for the damages, if not more...
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To me glove and the ball tells me that he came to the store prepared! That should tell us something else is going on!
There is a big chance that this guy is a boule player. The sport is rather big in France and Belgium. He might have played that day and had the steel ball and glove in his backpack. When he did not get what he wanted the went postal and grabbed the steel ball as he already had it on him!
The whole incident is strangely "artsy", especially when you set it to "Blue Danube" by Strauss:
people are crazy.... that was basically for a refused refund.
http://bgr.com/2016/09/30/man-destroys-iphones-macbooks-apple-store/
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http://bgr.com/2016/09/30/man-destroys-iphones-macbooks-apple-store/
Edit: second part