iPhone 4S China release sparks scuffles and eggings

[TigerToMany]

http://behindthewall.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/13/10147277-iphone-4s-china-release-sparks-scuffles-and-eggings

It’s a question Apple officials in China must be asking themselves today after fighting outside a Beijing store forced the company to close its stores nationwide, leaving hordes of outraged Chinese out in the proverbial cold.

Outside one store in Beijing’s Sanlitun entertainment district, Chinese buyers had been lining up outside of Apple stores around China since yesterday in anticipation of the official launch of Apple’s new iPhone 4S. By 1 a.m. Friday, the line had devolved into a thrall of people gathered around the front of the store.

Many of those in line were scalpers intending to resell the phones at inflated prices to impatient consumers.

Between 4 and 5 a.m., scuffles broke out in the line, first between groups of rival scalpers and then later between scalpers and police. Perhaps fearful of a repeat of the violence that occurred at the same Beijing store just eight months prior at the release of the iPad 2, the store remained closed past the pre-announced 7 a.m. time.

[deucemagnet]

1. They're not doing it right.

Everybody on the internet knows that this is how you fight over the iPhone.

[TigerToMany]

2. It's sad and funny at the same time how a cell phone can reduce people to animals

[Taitertots]

3. Am I the only person who wonders "Where did the eggs come from?"

Is there someone in China that just brings eggs to wait in line or did someone have to walk down to a store and get eggs just to throw them?