Finally "iPad robbery" occurred, victims are major injuries with aftereffects

It was released in the United States on April 3,With more than 450,000 units sold in less than a weekIn addition to doing so much salesSales outside the United States will be postponed for one monthApple tablet terminal "IPadHowever, at last the robbery incident aimed at the iPad occurred.

Robbery and extortion cases surrounding hit products occurred in the past in Japan, and in the mid-1990s aimed at popular sneakers "Air max picking", Famicom soft"Dragon Quest IIIAlthough the case of blackmailing by a boy who could not purchase ", etc., this case is a painful thing to have the serious after-effects of the victim.

Details are as below.
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According to this article, Mr. Bill Jordan, a 59-year-old man living in Colorado, USA, has asked a colleague living in Canada to buy an iPad at the Apple store.

And when holding the part of the handle of the bag containing the iPad in a left hand and holding out the Apple store and trying to head to a toll parking lot stopping the car, suddenly something strongly touched the hand, Two young men grabbed to take away the bag.

Mr. Jordan tried to pull back with weight so as not to be deprived of the bag, but the hands involved with the fingers twisted, and the strong power from both sides added, so the meat of Mr. Jordan's little finger dropped off, It is said to have suffered a serious injury of becoming only bone and skin.

Mr. Bill Jordan who was damaged this time


Ultimately, after the criminals deprived Jordan's iPad, they ran through a shopping mall and ran away, but the images of security cameras show the state of the culprits following Jordan who left Apple store, Apparently it seems clear that it was a crime to rob the iPad from the beginning.

Mr. Jordan, who was brought to the hospital, had to cut off the tip of the little finger and asked the criminals "for my life or my life for something that would not be usable in about two or three years, I would like you to understand how much it affected my family's life. "