Man with gun threatens to shoot iPhone at Apple Store.

[onehandle]

Man threatens to shoot iPhone at Genius bar

Even morons buy Apple products.

There's a story on ifoAppleStore today about one Mr. Donald Goodrich, who was having trouble with his iPhone. As many customers have done, Mr. Goodrich brought his iPhone to his local Genius Bar in Cincinnati, OH. While talking with an Apple Store employee, he allegedly said, "I'm so mad, I could pop a 9mm at it," meaning the iPhone.

According to police, he then said, "I'll do it right now! Look!" and pulled his shirt aside to show the employee the handgun he was carrying. While that employee escorted him to the Genius Bar (clearly not the right place for Mr. Goodrich), another called police who quickly arrived and arrested him.

We should note that Mr. Goodrich did have a permit to carry a concealed weapon and was cooperative with his arresting officer. We should also note that flashing it to a young person in a crowded mall while visibly upset and threatening to use it was a very dumb idea. Also, as Brandon points out in the comments below, the mall housing the Apple Store is private property and has posted "no weapons" signs.

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/10/02/man-threates-to-shoot-iphone-at-genius-bar/

[Buzz Clik]

1. Is there an app for that?

[edbermac]

2. I-diot.

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. Jesus! Should I start worrying about my son? He is.......

a Apple genius. Here I thought he had a fairly safe job.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. No, crimony.

one-off incident, not likely to re-occur, with one monumental dumbass.

relax.

[tridim]

4. "Even morons buy Apple products"

:rofl:

I've been saying that since about 1977. :)

Relax Apple folks, I'm not a tenth of the anti-Apple evangelist I used to be. I liked OSX and the iPhone, but I still hate the "Apple Approved App" BS. Software should never be caged.

[Treo]

5. And in other news

2 million other permit holders did nothing wrong today.

But hey in an effort to curb drunk driving why don't we take the driver's license from all the sober drivers?

[divideandconquer]

7. Japan, no guns, no gun crimes

Guns bring out the worst in people.

[PavePusher]

8. Ah, that old chestnut...

Guns 'cause' crime.

Very asstute of you sir.

But full of the fail...

[PavePusher]

12. Oops, inadvertently misspelled 'astute'...

but it ended up being ironicly appropriate.

[Euromutt]

10. Ever hear of the Akihabara massacre?

It happened summer of last year. No, it didn't involve a firearm. It still left 7 people dead and 10 injured.

Why should human suffering only count when it's inflicted using a firearm?

[Treo]

11. Japan no guns

So they kill each other W/ nerve gas and knives.

If guns bring out the worst in people why do we give them to cops?

[Euromutt]

13. Bite your tongue

A friend of my wife's is a faculty member at one of the SUNY campuses, and the administration won't authorize firearms for the campus police (and they are a state-accredited police force), on the basis that if you give people guns, they might be inclined to resort to their use too quickly.

Personally, I'm inclined to think that if you don't trust your cops ability to absorb and apply their training sufficiently, you propbably shouldn't have campus cops in the first place, but this is the kind of bliss ninnyism that is not susceptible to reasoned argument. Because what it's really about is that guns have mind control powers, whereas badges and powers of search, seizure and arrest do not.

[Endangered Specie]

6. lot of good those, "no weapon" signs did.