Man who waited a week in line dragged out of Apple Store by security goon

Daniel Simon, the man who waited in line for a full week for the iPhone 3G, was denied access to the store. An Apple security guard just didn't like the look of him, it seems — or the basket of apples he carried. Simon was eventually allowed in, albeit supervised by police and without the fruit of terror.

The video was uploaded by "pelmerdewitt. In the comments at CNN's Apple blog, Simon writes that Apple's apologized to him:

Ron Johnson (Senior Vice President of Retail Operations at Apple Computer) apologized to me about the scuffle as TheWhoFarmers finally left the Apple Store with phones for us and for Barack Obama and John McCain. We agreed it was EXTREMELY bad judgment on the part of one private security guard (who wore no name tag, but had been barking orders all morning long.) And that bygones will be bygones.

Let’s all hope that whoever the guy who pushed me learned something from that experience. I’m not sure exactly I learned, but I’m sure it was something. (I’m still QUITE sleep deprived.}

Sounds like a perfect candidate for a position as a TSA screener.

[#1 posted by hemidemisemiquaver , July 13, 2008 4:45 PM]

I'm trying really hard to care about this.

[#2 posted by Moon , July 13, 2008 7:23 PM]

That seems like an error on Apple's part.

[#3 posted by Anonymous , July 13, 2008 7:36 PM]

man, what is that girl with a camera in the wheel?

[#4 posted by mdhatter , July 13, 2008 9:20 PM]

Don't tase him, bro.

[#5 posted by haineux , July 13, 2008 11:10 PM]

#2 MOON: Note the story: security dude freaked out, and Senior VP of Retail Ron Johnson jumped to apologize. Obviously, not as good as not freaking out, but a nice apology.

The link is broken, here is the correct link: http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/11/video-applauded-and-roughed-up-in-the-iphone-3g-line/

The words are basically the same as the quote above. The link has a video of Mr Simon being pulled aside without benefit of reporter or editing or good camera shot for that matter.

[#6 posted by historyman68 , July 14, 2008 2:09 AM]

hemidemisemiquaver: Care or do not care. There is no try.

[#7 posted by MarlboroTestMonkey7 , July 14, 2008 12:06 PM]

I'd blame on an outdated Grimm Brothers poisoned apple terror warning.

[#8 posted by artbot , July 14, 2008 2:23 PM]

He waited in line to buy a phrikkin' PHONE! If I were that "guard" I would have thrown everybody out and told them all to get a life.