Chicago Apple Store Vandalized! (w/ Link)

[robzr]

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/05/window-smashed-at-downtown-computer-shop.html

Witnesses saw someone resembling Steve Ballmer running down the street afterwards, cackling like a hyena.

Rob

 

[leekohler]

Ack! That's MY Apple Store! That stinks.

 

[Pixellated]

Ouch. Why don't they do it to PC world or something...

 

[leekohler]

Ouch. Why don't they do it to PC world or something...

Why bother?

 

[Pixellated]

Why bother?

I guess all of the Windows there are broken right out of the box.

 

[pilotError]

That iPhone on a stick was taunting him! LOL

 

[leekohler]

I guess all of the Windows there are broken right out of the box.

Ha! That's pretty much a given.

 

[darklyt]

Is that the brick smashed up on the ground in front of the crack? That's pretty impressive glass if so. I think Rock/Paper/Glass is broken now that they found this hack.

 

[v66jack]

apple stores are quite well made arnt they!!! I guess that he's a PC lol maybe Microsoft should make an ad about it - they finally found someone who prefers Windows!!

 

[Mr. Giver '94]

61 years old???? A little too old to be busting down shop windows.....

 

[patrick0brien]

Must've had dinner at Gino's

 

[GSMiller]

That iPhone on a stick was taunting him! LOL

Good thing he just broke a window and not the worlds biggest iPhone.

 

[sammich]

Is that the brick smashed up on the ground in front of the crack? That's pretty impressive glass if so. I think Rock/Paper/Glass is broken now that they found this hack.

The Apple Store in Sydney, Australia, apparently has some of the thickest or largest (can't remember which one) sheets of glass in the world.

EDIT: here we go

The Apple fans on the pavement are separated from the store proper by a window of glass slabs, 15 metres high. That makes them the largest plates of laminated glass in the world, Apple's head of retail, Ron Johnson, says.

 

[Abstract]

Yes, the Sydney store has tall sheets of glass. No way they're of a special thickness though. They certainly don't appear like it. Besides, glass isn't transparent enough when it's thick, so it'd be too dark. If you go into the Sydney Apple Store, you'd see that the glass is rather thin.

 

[darklyt]

So we're thinking Apple has better windows than Microsoft?

 

[Ivan P]

So we're thinking Apple has better windows than Microsoft?

Well, Apple's glass windows are more effective against outside threats then Microsoft's Windows operating system, at least

 

[iCantwait]

clearly he was a fanboy thinking apple should have nothing to do with windows.

And my first iPhone came from that store :'(

 

[weckart]

How apt was it that this was posted on Chicago Breaking News?

 

[Grimace]

Windows doesn't need help getting broken!!!

 

[Mr. lax]

I like all the clever jokes, but i hope they catch the guy regardless of what store he was throwing things at. Its against the law

 

[jav6454]

I bet he was quite mad at glassy style glass panes/windows.

 

[Sesshi]

Wasn't me.