Monday, May 9, 2011

Four wounded in iPad fight Beijing Apple store

BEIJING- four people were taken to the hospital and a glass door broken as a riot breaks out in store Apple high in Beijing among the crowds rushing to align the 2 popular iPad tablet computer, according to the press of the State.


Angry consumers began to rush the store on Saturday afternoon after an Apple employee "abroad" would have been in the crowd to push and beat those suspected of queue jumping, said the Beijing News.


After the employee fell in the store, a crowd of consumers smashed the door glass entrance and shoved the security guards as they sweeps forward in anger on the alleged beating, said the report.


Consumers successive hours in Apple stores in Beijing and Shanghai since the iPad 2, the update of the Tablet PC version, is on sale in the largest Internet market of the world Friday.


The store chic shopping district Beijing Sanlitun closed Saturday early in the altercation, but according to a registration on telephone voice store was open for business Sunday.


Apple officials were not immediately available for comments when he phoned to AFP.


Police were an investigation into the incident and interviewed four people hospitalized with injuries, said the Beijing News.


Lines for the iPad popular 2 have increased as a long time that people started their place in the queue, sale, while a secondary market has also developed with consumers resell their lucrative tablet computers after leaving the storethe report said.


Late Saturday, the store posted a notice saying that jump the queue and unauthorized products Apple sales does would be tolerated, said the paper.

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