Man arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot iPhone
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We all express frustration with our electronica in different ways.
Some shout at Comcast cable boxes that refuse to delete recorded shows, leaving no room for new ones.
Others smack their microwaves when, commanded to heat some old spaghetti bolognese, they get stuck with 45 seconds to go.
But few are those who threaten to blast their gadget and actually mean it.
Which makes one wonder what thoughts might have been brewing at the Kenwood Towne Centre Apple Store in Cincinnati on Thursday.
According to WCPO9 (which is a Cincinnati TV station rather than C-3PO's illicit lover), Donald Goodrich, 38, wafted into this very Apple Store. His cup appears not to have been overflowing with joy for his iPhone.
This is not, to my knowledge, an iPhone that was already shot.
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Court papers do not seem to be specific as to what element might have been malfunctioning on his 115.5mm-long gadget. However, they do allege that Goodrich told an Apple Store employee that he was "so mad, I could pop a 9mm at it."
I am not sure how many people are so intimidated by the Apple store's graphic perfection and preternatural youthfulness that they actually take an extra 9mm with them.
However, the allegation is not merely that Goodrich told the employee that he would, indeed, blast his iPhone. For he is accused of revealing that he happened to have the perfect little weapon behind the right side of his shirt. (Strangely, it was a black shirt.)
You will perhaps experience a sense of stunned discomfort when I tell you that Goodrich has, indeed, been charged with aggravated menacing and causing fear of harm to an Apple employee.
Oh, as well as something of a concealed weapons violation. You see, he had a concealed weapons permit, but omitted to mention to the arresting deputy that he actually had the gun on his person, according to WCPO9. A frustrating iPhone can sometimes affect one's memory.
If your iPhone is causing you difficulties, don't smoke it, stroke it. Or take it to an Apple store where a genius will offer counseling.
Taking a gun to a gadget is like taking a blow-up doll to a dinner party. It doesn't reflect well on you at all.
Really the biggest difference between the Iphone and every other all touch device probably is multitouch/pinching. That's really it. I don't think the Iphone is worth the hassle. People seem to think the Iphone is the only way to listen to music on a cell phone, though that is very far from the truth.