Woman Shot During “Violent Armed Robbery” At Apple Store

@BuyingPowerTools_GitEmSteveDave: Epic!! That was awesome!

@gus2000: Well there is that little sliver of land on the GW Parkway that is actually a part of DC even though its on the VA side. And if you mail something to the Pentagon its not VA, but DC... random factoid

@drunkhippos: but you wouldn't. if you live in ballston you'd probably just drive

/inside arlington joke

@AreWeThereYeti: ....yeah...

hypocalypto

@blitzened: Think about all the $5,000 dollar TVs alone. Then the sub, 5,000 dollar ones. Then the other stuff. Don't forget appliances. Computers. DVDs, Blurays, CDs, slim jim's at the registers... I kinda want a slim jim now.

hypocalypto

@Americun MORAN©:

"The suspect is described as a medium build black male, aged between of 35 and 45, with facial hair. He was wearing a dark baseball cap, a light-colored shirt and pants. He fled on foot, carrying a handgun."

@gus2000: Ruthless? I just want justice. Anyone that would do something like this is not someone who should be allowed to live in society. The way I see it, if you would shoot someone over things that don't even belong to you so you can take them by force, you are less than human. You are a monster. Why should we let someone like that back into society?

He'd probably been complaining about a hardware fault with his iMac and got pissed of when Apple deleted the thread again.

citizensmith

@Δεν βρέθηκαν λέξεις: Why would you say that?

@BuyingPowerTools_GitEmSteveDave: You have waaaaaaaaay too much free time on your hands.

@DustyButtâ„¢: that was pretty awesome

jnelson2525

@Mike Cardillo: seriously?

devianaut

@Xjep: Actually, it's called "Washington DC".

At least, it's called that whenever people bring up the subject of 9/11 and the "attacks on New York and Washington". I realize that Arlington was originally part of the District until the Civil War, but apparently people have a hard time letting go.

@Valnen: Wow. Ruthless much?

On behalf of the people of the Earth, we regretfully accept your resignation from this world. Please return forthwith to your place of origin, or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.

There's an app for that.

Warren Atwater

@wAkO: Are you trying to say BestBuy has a half million in cash on hand??? I call bullshit!

blitzened

@smcallah:
There are lots of stories out there on the web of apple refusing cash for purchases.

TheCrudMan

@deanbmmv:
The apple store nearest to me has no cash register, no checkout counter. There is just a guy out there with a headset and a portable card swiper. There is a large door that leads to a back area, where I assume there is maybe a safe, but even people that commit robberies know that you go for the cash register and then get the fuck out. Front of an Apple store is all glass...you don't want to be in there very long.

TheCrudMan

@Will Ross: You also forgot, I believe, that they can't deny you a concealed carry permit in VA unless you are a felon or insane, or something equally stupid.

AmphetamineCrown

wrong place at the wrong time..
and i agree with @Travis VanNimwegen microsoft is probably having a party right now

@WarOperationPlanResponse_GitEmSteveDave: That is exactly how my last transaction went at the Apple Store. (I bought another Mighty Mouse, they can be bought with reasonable cashy money.).

@AlphaUltima: Logic FAIL.

CaptainSnarky

@AlphaUltima: "IF You Don't get, You Don't Get IT"

yungjerry703

Why is this weird? Why is this abnormal? Why is this worth the space on an international blog such as Gizmodo?

@smcallah:
You can carry concealed weapons (with permit) in VA on private property unless prohibited by owner. Also, you can open carry in VA without any permit.
The unusual places where guns aren't allowed are on University campuses (but only applying to students and faculty, not normal people just on campus), and places of worship. You also can't carry concealed weapons where alcohol is served, but open carry is okay in those places.
For other states, it's usually allowed unless the owner has posted a notice (at least for concealed carry).

Will Ross

@Sinecure:

I use to work at an Apple Store and people do pay in cash for their computers. A couple thousand a night wasnt that unusual...

But if he was going after cash I would go for BestBuy, when I worked there especially on holidays, we would get about half a million in cash EASILY.

@smcallah: I just pictured someone handing the cashier a bill, and him trying to scan it through the credit card machine, looking baffled, and asking the customer what is wrong with their card. They then call for a manager, who is old, and he explains that they used wads of paper back in the twentieth. He then reaches into a counter and pulls out a till, blows the dust off of it, and they complete the transaction.

This person must be incredibly unintelligent, our for vengeance on someone, or just a loon if he thinks he can walk into a place with cameras covering everything, tons of people, not to mention how beloved the Apple store tends to be in whatever area it is.

If the cops don't get this guy, the neighborhood probably will.

@AlphaUltima: How are things in mom's cave? Did the news of the last two elections in Va.--and in the United States--reach you down there? I think you're just trying to bring the snark, but the onlything worse than a techie that knows little about tech is a techie who tries to make an ignorant political joke--a fault that can be cured by reading the WaPo every so often.

DangerousLiberal

@AXSLV2: Really. Remember, fanbois, sarcasm, voice inflection, facial expressions, etc. don't come across on comments very well. Even if you are doing all your web stuff on an iPhone.

DangerousLiberal

@Xjep: It is considered both a county and city, because of its small size as a county.

But yes, technically it's a county. But people that live there and in the area just call it Arlington as if it's a city, because that is pretty much how the area is organized.

There are no incorporated towns or cities in Arlington County, so that is why it is usually just referred to as Arlington.

No one ever says that the Pentagon is in Arlington County, they say it's in Arlington. The same thing with the Arlington National Cemetary.

@Kyle Bowles: In most states, it is unlawful, unless you are law enforcement, to enter a private business with a legally concealed firearm.

So if you're going to go into a store with your gun, and that store is being robbed, and you use it to fight or dissuade the robber, you too can go to jail.

@Samifumi: Obviously it's a "yuppie" area, there is an Apple Store...

Which is why criminals in search of money would come to an area that actually has money, and maybe no one that will fight back for it.

@TheCrudMan: You didn't check thoroughly then. Not everyone uses credit/debit cards. They have to have cash in the store to cover change for people that spend cash. And then, once those people spend their cash, the store has even more cash on hand.

Why would you think the Apple Store, just like any other brick and mortar retail store would not have any cash?

@92BuickLeSabre: sadly i think your sarcasm might be lost on him. i wouldn't be surprised to see an "exactly!" follow up from him.

@roflwaffles is terribly unfunny: find me a cop who will tell you this a wise idea. just one ... just find me one.

@Kyle Bowles: this is the second worst comment i've seen in this post. the first being some dribble about red state/blue state or some bunch of nonsense.

congrats kyle! we can all aspire to be as deep as you.

@superberg: Clearly you're not looking very hard. I've seen plenty of videos of civilians stopping these inhuman animals, both with guns and other weapons.

Look at it this way. Someone may get shot when you fire upon the robber, but the robber will get what he deserves...not like what our broken justice system will give him.

Stuff like this makes me want to not live in this world. That we have people so evil, they would shoot an innocent woman over material possessions.

People that do things like this deserve the death penalty...whether they succeed in killing their victim or not. They've already shown how inhuman they are regardless.

@orthorim: Yeah... we don't know if this person had a choice to take a bullet. If this psycho was able to fire a gun in public on innocent civilians then I'm pretty sure this is the kind of individual who would fire on somebody who was trying to escape said situation unscathed.

Sunburn_summer

damn...I live a few blocks from there

Dan King

@Mike Cardillo:

@Duckspwn: *sigh* Damn them typos.

@TrollSlayer: I believe the only thing more annoying then someone feeling the need to say "first" and the parade of people after him and the person who gets annoyed at those people is the person points this out for absolutely no reason at all, besides to waste a gigantic amount of time typing out a big block of snarky gibberish.

@CaptCaveman: Oh I missed the end off :P
"Last you checked? And how did you check exactly?....:P"

@roflwaffles is terribly unfunny:

Actual video, or movies? Because I have seen maybe one or two.

As has already been stated, escalation does not usually end well. If the gunman was willing to shoot one person, he was likely willing to shoot more. No one walks in to rob a place thinking "I'll kill one person but no more! That's my limit."

@Travis VanNimwegen: I find ur comment disturbing... think about the family of the victim, DUDE

AXSLV2

@AlphaUltima: Virginia voted blue in the last election.

I bought my iPod 4th gen at that very same store - that area is about as hipster, up-and-coming, revitalized as it gets. I can't talk for Richmond and the southern parts of Virginia but Northern Virginia is bluer than California.

blash

@zjgz: I believe the only thing more annoying than someone feeling the need to say "First" and the parade of people after him who have to tell him he's banned is the person who gets annoyed at those people.

@DustyButtâ„¢: Saved to favorites!

CaptCaveman

As long as the Beijing store is safe, who cares?

heroineworshipper

@Azteck: Good one, you would think there would be a dozen videos of this on Youtube already.

Just for the record, I was in a Apple store this afternoon. But it was in Iowa. Nothing seemed out of place. The orange shirts were by the door, the blue shirts were near the bar, the black shirt was wandering around, and geniuses were fixing stuff.
Got the same sales pitch for Mobil Me that I always get and I was in and out of there after getting my phone replaced for an uneven bezel.

CaptCaveman

His Mac kept crashing when it is not supposed to ever, his thigh was burned by his 3GS and someone had to pay...

@deanbmmv: I really don't think they do a lot of cash transactions. Yeah, little Jimmy could save up his allowance and have mom and dad drive him to the Apple store one day to pick up a iPod. But how often is that going to happen?

CaptCaveman

@Sinecure: You would be wrong. My friend, years ago, paid cash for his Powermac G5. Three grand. He's weird, but not *that* weird, plenty of people still use paper money.

I sure hope the person who got shot is ok.

Mac007

awesome
@DustyButtâ„¢:

@Samifumi: Yes, and as we all know, the mere presence of a Whole Paycheck eliminates any possibility of crime or poor people! They're practically like those bug-zappers for the underprivileged.

FubarGuy

@vinnyr: Don't know I think fanatic employees who'd take a bullet for the company are much more frightening.

orthorim

@Samifumi: I doubt it was one of the yuppies.

I'd imagine the guy thought robbing an Apple store would be easy - lots of highly desirable expensive goods, and not much security.

We also know the perp did not read Gizmodo or any other tech website or he'd have known that trying to steal from rabid Apple fanboys is not a good idea. She was probably like "hell no you're not stealing our shiny stuff". A true heroine of our times.

orthorim

Apple salesperson: "You can pry this iPod from my cold, dead hands!"

Now that's what I call commitment.

orthorim

Too bad that the iBauer was recharging it's batteries after a day of dealing with the iRan and iRaq. Otherwise it would have caught the gunman, kept the woman from being shot, saved the Apple store, and found out where the godd*mn bomb is.

taniquetil

@Travis VanNimwegen: Lol, it's okay I do it all the time.

@Maladjusted:
I've seen plenty of videos of bank tellers/gas station attendants pulling guns on robbers if thats what you mean.

I wonder if anyone with a iphone 3GS caught it on video?

Azteck

@snitch: Hmmm yeah I'm gonna go ahead and say maybe he was going for something more valuable.

INF1N1TY

@bosskev: best reply ever.

glinden9

@Kyle Bowles: when has some bystander with a gun *ever* stopped a crime / shooting in progress?

Maladjusted

@bombastinator:
It's because they're covering up the porno they were filming. "Man shoots woman and withdraws out back door." See? Porn.

dacaeq

@zjgz: I hope the meta-snobbery of your comment isn't lost on you. (Or the meta-meta-snobbery of mine)

jetRink

@Sinecure: You're fucking kidding, right?! LOL

@zjgz:

I find it very, very humorous, actually. However, I might agree with you here because of the whole mood of the entire post about that woman getting shot.

uRbAnlP

Its called Arlington County, Virginia you make it seem like its a city when its not.

@92BuickLeSabre: Yes, escalation has always been the correct solution.

For example, I was at the Apple Store and they did not have the orange LaCie "tough" drives. So I took out my Glock 22 and demanded they give me something else that is just as good. Got a new MacBook Pro (13"), iPhone (with activation) and Adobe Creative Suite.

See, it works just fine! And people think we need less CCW! Feh!

Damn! That's 3 blocks from me!
For the record I was playing golf at 10am.

The area is like a yuppie paradise! This news is crazy!

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DustyButtâ„¢

@AlphaUltima:

Don't talk about something you know nothing about. Northern Virginia very liberal and in fact the majority of Virginia is liberal. Even if Virginia was a red state don't claim it's residents are support armed robbers because of their political views.

iatca

@Kyle Bowles: Agreed. A full-on shoot out in the store, wild west style, would have definitely been the best resolution.

@TheCrudMan: Last you checked?

@Mike Cardillo: I believe the only thing more annoying than someone feeling the need to say "First" is the parade of people after him who have to tell him he's banned.....

zjgz

This is why we need more responsible people with conceal carry permits. Since criminals more often use illegal guns with no permits, it helps people protect themselves much more.

Kyle Bowles

Very strange indeed. This area is so yuppie, there is a Whole Foods across the street.

@Toastie: Oh, never mind. I get what you are saying now. And yeah, you're right.

Travis VanNimwegen

I thought all apple stores had iKill missile defense systems!

now that I think abut it the thing in an apple store with the greatest potential value is the hard drives of the computers in for repair assuming you know what is on them.

bombastinator

disguises generally mean inside job. Apple is a big company though. It is interesting that they are not disclosing what has been taken

bombastinator

@Toastie: Just because I said I wasn't serious doesn't mean what I said was supposed to be funny.

Travis VanNimwegen

@Mike Cardillo:

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@Mike Cardillo: AND LAST AHAHAHAHAHA

xblindx

@urbanturban666: MJ's Death Coverage time.

@snitch: twelve seems like a good number, yeah?

@N1k0s: Oh shit hahahah!

Was it at about.. 10:00 AM?

Alexandru Dragunoiu

@N1k0s: That was funny.

@Matt_Calhoun: $250 iPods that you can fit about 100 of them into your pants.

@Mike Cardillo: The BanHammer hath stuckth!

Apple stores don't have cash last I checked...

TheCrudMan

Announcing the iVebeenshot

(seriously, hope they recover ok)

AreWeThereYeti

@urbanturban666: Our innocence.

It reminds me of the blackberry shooting straigt through the apple.

Obey__

@d_r_e: Dear sweet lord! Kudos for you XD

Obey__

so what did the gunman steal?

urbanturban666

@Matt_Calhoun: You forgot about the computers. Those are worth like $1000!!!

what happens when you bring blue state tech to a red state.

AlphaUltima

Yeah, Microsoft is loving this...

"This is Joe. He wanted an Apple laptop for under $15)0.00. So we gave him a gun and told him, you find it, you keep it."

@Travis VanNimwegen:

@drunkhippos:

So we have possible suspect,where were you at exactly 10.00 AM?

Amir Oulad

@Travis VanNimwegen: Yeah but you know those moments where you say something that might have sounded funny in your head, but just end up being kind of akward.......yeah.

@kimchi43: that's terrible. but i see what you did there.

TonyRockyHorror

@Sinecure: Good point. All Apple stores carry $250 iPods and nothing else worth any value.

@Mike Cardillo: You've broken the 3rd rule of Gizmodo: Thou shalt not say "first". May the mighty thunder of Jason Chen's banhammer strike you with full force.

Amen.

tok3ninja; is strapped to a rocket for the 4th

this is freakishly close to me. i could walk to this store in under 3 minutes

drunkhippos

My guess is that he was going for the iPhones. iPhone are going for $700 a pop on ebay but damn how many was he thinking of stealing?

snitch

@d_r_e: Epic.

tok3ninja; is strapped to a rocket for the 4th

@Mike Cardillo:

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@John Hines: Because now people will be timid going into the Apple store and I wasn't completely serious with what I said lol.

Travis VanNimwegen

bummer. i used to live a few blocks from there. very nice, yuppie area. but i guess every very nice, yuppie area has it's bad apples.

kimchi43

@Mike Cardillo:

Scotland

WTF? Apple stores hardly have any cash anyway. Would you hold up an apple store for an iPod? Sad.

@Travis VanNimwegen: why would microsoft love seeing this? this is not "hah their OS just proved inferior" some one was shot

John Hines

@Mike Cardillo: Bye!

i.M.A.p.C.

I'm sure Microsoft is loving this.

Travis VanNimwegen

first

Mike Cardillo

1. That was awesome!!!!

2. @Travis, timid? So is everyone timid to go into:

banks
grocery stores
liquor stores
toy stores
hardware stores

..... Do I need to keep going? What you said makes no sense.

ISOHaven

@DustyButtâ„¢:
Bad Ass!!!

Was it Lauren from the microsoft ads?

I blame the fact that it's so easy to get a handgun in the state of Virginia, and its usually the people with the least scruples who have them.