Post: #26

For those who don't want to provide hits to the BBC website.

Post: #27

(10-01-2016 09:43 PM)Suits Wrote:  

(10-01-2016 10:08 AM)apolis Wrote:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audi...s/37522714

Major newbie fail here.

We don't start threads by posting a single link with no commentary or at least copy and pasting more than a one sentence description.

Try harder.

If what you're posting isn't important enough to warrant your commentary, find an existing thread to post it in.

Apologies...

Post: #28

I approve of smashing apple products, and I approve of stupid hipsters getting arrested.

This is really a win-win here.

Post: #29

(10-02-2016 02:37 AM)apolis Wrote:  

(10-01-2016 09:43 PM)Suits Wrote:  

(10-01-2016 10:08 AM)apolis Wrote:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audi...s/37522714

Major newbie fail here.

We don't start threads by posting a single link with no commentary or at least copy and pasting more than a one sentence description.

Try harder.

If what you're posting isn't important enough to warrant your commentary, find an existing thread to post it in.

Apologies...

Relevant.

Post: #30

I had a chuckle. His methodical way of smashing them is just amusing, especially when he moved on to the larger devices at the end.

Also, I've just realised my French is getting rusty. I was trying to translate and thought he said 'appelle' instead of 'apple' in a french accent.

Post: #31

A real man eats raw onions and garlic, and swats at every crapple he sees, or breaks them in the crook of his jacked arms.

Post: #32

Apparently, this guy really really wanted a headphone jack on his Iphone 7.
Probably just bought the new Beats by Dre headphones that matched his hipster hoodie.
This guy must have known the hands-off security rules there.
Several men just stood and watched a 140-pound manlet destroy thousands of dollars of product.
In the US, one of the female, land-whales working there would have been triggered and bum rushed this guy to the ground.
Even the security guards must be operating under a "hands off" policy as they kept using "futbol shoves"-hands at the side, so its a legal shove.
Undoubtedly, someone would have kicked this guy's ass in the US.

Post: #33

(10-02-2016 07:07 AM)AboveAverageJoe Wrote:  Several men just stood and watched a 140-pound manlet destroy thousands of dollars of product.

More like a bunch of display models.

Post: #34

(10-02-2016 07:31 AM)aSimpNamedBrokeback Wrote:  

(10-02-2016 07:07 AM)AboveAverageJoe Wrote:  Several men just stood and watched a 140-pound manlet destroy thousands of dollars of product.

More like a bunch of display models.

OK, thousands of dollars worth of display models. Probably cost about $20 wholesale from the factory. It is still felony criminal property damage, in the US. When charges are filed they will use the retail price to determine damage.
I have never been in an Apple store but I assume the display models are the same as the normal ones and are just tethered and set to display mode. Same product.

Post: #35

I have been to a few London/ Greater London Apple stores. The phones are real, I don't know about Dijon, but they should be normal demo £500-£700 iPhones.

Post: #36

When they remodeled the Apple Store near me recently, after it reopened they removed the Apple logo. It's just a blank white facade now.

They're like "Bitch you know what we got in here, as if we even gotta tell you"

(10-02-2016 07:07 AM)AboveAverageJoe Wrote:  Undoubtedly, someone would have kicked this guy's ass in the US.

Beta: Kick the guy's ass, then have to deal with the inevitable "I'm-a-victim-now" lawsuit, which is a pain in the ass even if you're eventually found not liable

Alpha: Casually walk out of the store, and while he's distracted, drop and latch the front security gate from the outside. Even if it doesn't drop fully before he notices, it would be hilarious to watch him try to scramble out before it closed, like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Surprise!

Post: #37

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Post: #38

(10-01-2016 11:00 PM)NomadofEU Wrote:  ROFL! The T-restricted Apple store employee doesn't know what to do when confronted with real anger^^

What a vivid snapshot of the two types of "men" that feminists and single mothers have raised. On one hand, you have a meek non-confrontational people-pleaser scared to really confront someone who is ostensibly a nuisance in his store. Then you have a volitale over-emotional male who lashes out violently in public on the regular. Sad.

Post: #39

(10-02-2016 12:41 PM)eatthishomie Wrote:  On one hand, you have a meek non-confrontational people-pleaser scared to really confront someone who is ostensibly a nuisance in his store.

I don't think picking and choosing your battles is necessarily meek. If I were in the same position as these employees? Yeah, I'm just going to sit back and chuckle, sorry. I don't own the store, I don't own the products, I'm not jumping a mentally-deranged hipster with a whacking tool over a dozen iPhone 6es to defend the honor of the spirit of Steve Jobs. As if the Apple Store deserves my loyalty - everyone knows in retail that they'd can your ass over just about anything given the opportunity of someone who would work for less.

If he looked like he was going to take it to another employee, that's a different story. But hey, if all you wanna do is smash a bunch of Chinese made crap, have at it pal.

Self-defense is pretty narrowly defined around here as well. Pounding the stuffing out of a vandal likely wouldn't qualify, and then you're a guy with a criminal record, too. And facing a lawsuit.

The guys who feel this is a situation worth confronting anyone over are exactly the same guys who'll lash out in public over trivia, in my estimation. It sounds like some guys harken back to some supposed golden age of masculinity, where miscreants and ruffians would have immediate justice dealt out if they pulled a stunt like this. But as onerous as our Western legal system can be, the reason it's there is because that era absolutely sucked nuts for just about everyone.

YMMV.

Post: #40

^ +1

Employed by some rich guy with insurance? Walk out and call the police.

I've never been cracked in the head by a man holding a metal ball and I'd like to keep it that way.

Post: #41

(10-02-2016 01:26 PM)XPQ22 Wrote:  

(10-02-2016 12:41 PM)eatthishomie Wrote:  On one hand, you have a meek non-confrontational people-pleaser scared to really confront someone who is ostensibly a nuisance in his store.

I don't think picking and choosing your battles is necessarily meek. If I were in the same position as these employees? Yeah, I'm just going to sit back and chuckle, sorry. I don't own the store, I don't own the products, I'm not jumping a mentally-deranged hipster with a whacking tool over a dozen iPhone 6es to defend the honor of the spirit of Steve Jobs. As if the Apple Store deserves my loyalty - everyone knows in retail that they'd can your ass over just about anything given the opportunity of someone who would work for less.

If he looked like he was going to take it to another employee, that's a different story. But hey, if all you wanna do is smash a bunch of Chinese made crap, have at it pal.

Self-defense is pretty narrowly defined around here as well. Pounding the stuffing out of a vandal likely wouldn't qualify, and then you're a guy with a criminal record, too. And facing a lawsuit.

The guys who feel this is a situation worth confronting anyone over are exactly the same guys who'll lash out in public over trivia, in my estimation. It sounds like some guys harken back to some supposed golden age of masculinity, where miscreants and ruffians would have immediate justice dealt out if they pulled a stunt like this. But as onerous as our Western legal system can be, the reason it's there is because that era absolutely sucked nuts for just about everyone.

YMMV.

Retail workers are specifically told to not confront or accost shoplifters and thieves. You call the management or loss prevention.

It's a natural reaction to try to prevent the thief but your well being and your life isn't worth some cretin stealing or damaging things that belong to a multi billion dollar corporation which would most likely fire you for not "following the rules" and possibly opening yourself up to a lawsuit by the "victim".

Post: #42

I think I'd have knocked out that trumped up little security guard as well. The way he did the arms by the side to make himself bigger

No okay, I wouldn't because I'm heterosexual and would never buy an apple product and I wouldn't be stupid enough to go in the store to smash up some stuff or take on the security guard.

Some plus marks for choice of weapon though. Go in with a hammer and you're in deep doo-do I suspect.

Post: #43

All you guys virtue-signaling by saying that you don't own an Apple phone and trying to shame others for owning them are being just as bad as some of the SJW crowd.

I've never owned an Apple phone, but that kind of shaming language and holier than thou attitude is not needed here.

Now, what we do need is to ban heavy round objects like this guy used. Ban them all!

Post: #44

(10-05-2016 04:03 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote:  All you guys virtue-signaling by saying that you don't own an Apple phone and trying to shame others for owning them are being just as bad as some of the SJW crowd.

I've never owned an Apple phone, but that kind of shaming language and holier than thou attitude is not needed here.

Now, what we do need is to ban heavy round objects like this guy used. Ban them all!

I have an iPod Touch, it's a pretty cool pocket computer and you can use all the iOS apps plus iMessage, all you need is a WiFi connection. WiFi is everywhere. Install the app that finds all the open commercial WiFi networks in the area, picks the strongest one and logs you in automatically. Use a VPN if you're paranoid. Lock it down and use it to run all your financial/online dating/booby texting apps and keep your main phone clean of personal info as much as possible. As we know from recent news, an Apple product that you lose and is password locked and encrypted is essentially a paperweight to anyone who takes it, even the FBI.

95% of the time you don't even need a voice/data connection, who needs a $600 phone and a $70 cellular package. Just pick up a $20 prepaid burner phone with unlimited texts for that.

A player thinks in terms of tools, not brands.

Post: #45

The French are always letting people walk in and smash their shit up.



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