Sanlitun Apple Store Violence Resolved

Adeline Wang | May 10, 2011 10:30 am | 13 comments | 6645 reads

The Apple drama seems to be settling down for now, blogged by Agenda's Adeline Wang:

According to Sina Technology Times, a fight that broke out at the Sanlitun Apple Store around 3pm on May 7 has been settled. The violence occurred as Apple fans gathered excitedly in a long queue outside the store to wait for the iPad 2 launch.

As a result, Apple Store employees were forced to manage a chaotic crowd of eager customers all day, many of whom included product scalpers, which unfortunately culminated into an assistant getting into a fight with a young Chinese male customer. Chaoyang police are not pursuing charges against the offending Apple Store employee, but have charged him RMB 20,000 to cover the victim’s hospital fees.

Get Agenda's article here.

And for the weekend drama in Sanlitun, the our post "iPad 2 Launch Turns Bloody: Apple Sanlitun Locked Down."

Photo: mychinaviews.com

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Aier2's picture Aier2 Submitted by Guest on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 00:14

admin wrote:
Btw may daily features a pic of the foreign ruffian that perpetrated the assault (http://maydaily.com/2011/05/11/rogue-apple-store-manager-compensates-chinese-man-for-mack-attack/) looks like one tough character


The only pic of the guy is at a completely separate event?...and he's the manager of the store?

Well look at that, everyone's standing!
So informal.

Oh Apple :X , you sweep me off my feet with your forward thinking and casual (yet professional!) attitude to the workplace...

But surely your store manager is missing his frappuccino?? and there is a distinct lack of pictures of Einstein, Gandhi or any other of the great minds you've baselessly associated with your products over the years.

In future I suggest carpeting your stores with astroturf, and piping your office emissions directly into the mesosphere!

Brilliant!

Throw some stuff in there about feeding hungry [insert racial/ethnic minority here] children and you're back on track.

admin's picture admin Submitted by Guest on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 17:46

Btw may daily features a pic of the foreign ruffian that perpetrated the assault (http://maydaily.com/2011/05/11/rogue-apple-store-manager-compensates-chinese-man-for-mack-attack/) looks like one tough character

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admin's picture admin Submitted by Guest on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 17:45

Btw may daily features a pic of the foreign ruffian that perpetrated the assault (http://maydaily.com/2011/05/11/rogue-apple-store-manager-compensates-chinese-man-for-mack-attack/) looks like one tough character

Books by current and former Beijinger staffers

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MoreRichInHope's picture MoreRichInHope Submitted by Guest on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 15:35

I have little interest in iPads, almost as little in this incident, but I have to ask, what's up with all the racism on the threads about this? Jeremy 29, for instance, maybe it's time to 回国, don't you think? I think Beijing can do without Chinese-hating expats, which is what you seem to be.

I have to say, I think that if you assault someone then you do pretty well to walk away from it with a fine, even a large one, rather than with a criminal record. Yes, no doubt the fine was more than the costs, but for all those saying that this supposedly "harsh" treatment was because he was a foreigner, I would contend that in fact it was more lenient treatment than had he been Chinese, where there would very likely have been some kind of custodial sentence involved.

And as for "Herojuana", please, grow up and do not make this "poor guy" out to be some kind of hero. You say you are "absolutely sure" that the Chinese guy started the fight. Why? Because you were there, or because you're also a racist? And let's get something straight. If person 1 insults someone's mother and person 2 hits them, who's "started the fight"? It's person 2.

I have to say people like you make me embarassed to be a foreigner in Beijing.

Aier2's picture Aier2 Submitted by Guest on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:14

Bullsh1t，obvious bullsh1t.

And still no pics of the actual incident?
Am I expected to believe none of these people mobbing the store like zombies had an Apple product with a camera?

Even Chinese farmers have camera phones.

herojuana's picture herojuana Submitted by Guest on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 08:36

That's some fucking bullshit right there.

I say we set up a fund to help this poor guy pay this bullshit fine.

I absolutely guarantee you the Chinese guy started the fight, probably by talking about this guy's mother's cunt.

Some drunk Chinese asshole crashes his car into another and gets a 2,000 rmb fine, this guy beats up a greedy selfish cock sucker and gets dinged 20,000?

Obvious racism.

Irish coffee, and Irish car bomb
A fat drunk jew starts singing this song
I take a closer look and the fat guy is me
So I buy him a shot, and he buys me back three

Golden_Bridge's picture Golden_Bridge Submitted by Guest on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 15:03

wtf? 20,000 rmb? I saw pics of this guys injuries, and lemme tell you: he didn't spend 20,000. I hope the perpetraitor fights these trumped up numbers.

I don't advocate violence, and it was totally unnecessary to do what he did, but c'mon now, 20K is too much.

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