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Rob Beschizza

AT 9:06 AM
Friday July 3, 2009

Industry

Apple • crime

Shooting at Arlington Apple store

Witnesses heard shots fired in the back room of an Apple store in Arlington, Va., at about 10 a.m. this morning. One person was shot, and the shooter escaped on foot, and was reported to be wearing a fake beard. The extent of the victim's injuries are unclear. [Fox]

Cult of Mac Updates: "Police have confirmed that a 26-year-old, female Apple employee was shot in the upper body and injured at the Apple Store Clarendon in Arlington, Virginia, during a "violent armed robbery."

10 Comments

strider_mt2k

#1 – 9:45 AM July 3, 2009

It was bound to happen sooner or later.
Smug bastards.

(Look, if YOU get to crassly use it for it's Apple connection, then so do I.) :p

therevengor

#2 – 10:43 AM July 3, 2009

Actually, it was a fake soul patch.

(hope they're ok...)

iamanumlaut

#3 – 11:14 AM July 3, 2009

And a black turtleneck, although the robber should have used GDGT first.


Dan S

#4 – 12:07 PM July 3, 2009

Wow. I used to work there. Not something you would expect to happen in that neighborhood. Hope she's OK...

Ryan

#5 – 1:15 PM July 3, 2009

@#4: You obviously haven't heard Arlington: The Rap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T1RMuoQnKo

Clarendon's brown flip-flop CENTRAL.

laura lemley

#6 – 3:14 PM July 3, 2009

Poor crowd control considering the perp was on the run...nearby Whole Foods was buzzing with people. A helicopter overhead was searching for the shooter. How did he know the store would have a back door bell? Hopefully the injured woman will make a full recovery.

Anonymous Anonymous

#7 – 10:18 PM July 3, 2009

It wasn't a robbery. It was her ex!

(90% of the time)

jayboo

#8 – 10:43 AM July 4, 2009

It's actually a really tough neighborhood....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T1RMuoQnKo

Ambiguity

#9 – 11:41 AM July 4, 2009

It's funny (well, not really): I used to live near that neighborhood 15 or 20 years ago, back when it was all small ethnic stores, restaurants, and little shops that had been around for ever... before all the high-rises were built. Back then, of course, there were no "violent armed robberies." Sure, there was crime, but it was of a different character.

"Gentrify" a neighborhood, kick out all people who have lived there, make it homogeneous and without face, anonymize it and make it interchangeable with any other nameless, faceless place, and you get homogeneous, faceless crime,

Apple products are a perfect metaphor. Real individually replaced with branding, where people "express themselves" by buying mass-produced toys which are just like 100,000,000 other people's toys...

playghost

#10 – 4:35 PM July 4, 2009

it's funny.......lol

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