A brawl broke out in Beijing Saturday as tech-hungry Apple fanatics waited anxiously on line to get their hands on the iPad 2, state news reported.
The incident is being blamed on a "foreign" Apple store employee, the Beijing News said.
The employee allegedly pushed and beat several people accused of jumping the line. This sparked a melee which lead to four people getting injured and a glass door being shattered, according to the report.
Hundreds of iPad-craving consumers were in line for hours waiting for the store to open. Apple started selling the updated version of their popular tablet computer in Beijing and Shanghai on Friday.
The store in Beijing's chic Sanlitun commercial district closed early Saturday because of the altercation, but according to a voice recording on the store's phone was open for business Sunday.
"We're working hard to get the iPad 2 into the hands of every customer who wants one as quickly as possible," said Carolyn Wu, a Beijing-based spokeswoman at Apple. Demand for the iPad2 "has been amazing," she said.
One 30-year-old man, Wang Ming, claimed to have been hit in the head with a bottle.
Lmao! I'm just happy it's the chinese acting ignorant & ghetto this time! See! We're not the only one's that do it! They do it for tech sh!t!
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