Photos: Beijing Brawl as Apple debuts iPad 2 [PHOTOS]
May 09, 2011 11:49 AM EDT
An Apple Store employee and a customer got into a fight amid the launch of the new iPad2 in China, making for the most intense debut of the iPad in any country.
Witnesses say a fight between a native Chinese man and a "foreign" Apple employee broke out on May 7 as customers waited in line for the new iPad 2.
Four people were injured and hospitalized, and a glass door was smashed by the crowd because it was so incensed at the physical violence.
One witness reportedly got hit in the head with a glass bottle. Photos taken in the aftermath of the scuffle showed customers with wounds and some laying on the ground injured.
An Apple Store employee and a customer got into a fight amid the launch of the new iPad2 in China
Source: Reuters
An Apple Store employee and a customer got into a fight amid the launch of the new iPad2 in China
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Security staff watch customers as they wait in a fenced-off area outside an Apple Store in central Beijing
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Customers wait in a fenced-off area outside an Apple Store in central Beijing for the China launch of the iPad 2
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APPLE Inc's iPad 2 has been sold officially in the Chinese mainland since 8 a.m. Beijing Time on May 6.
Source: NetEase
An Apple store employee gives a class on how to use the new iPad 2 during the China launch at an Apple Store
Source: Reuters
An Apple store employee gives a class on how to use the new iPad 2 during the China launch at an Apple Store
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A customer looks at an iPad 2 during the China launch at an Apple Store in central Beijing
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