A US Apple Store customer lost most of his little finger when a thief struck grabbing his newly purchased iPad.
Customer Bill Jordan was the victim of a bag snatch outside an Apple store in Denver, Colorado, which resulted in surgeon's having to amputate his finger.
Mr Jordan had bought the iPad for a friend in Canada, where the device, like the UK, has yet been released.
"He kept pulling until something had to give, and it wound up being my finger," said Mr Jordan. "There was nothing but bone showing on the whole back of the pinky. The skin was just gone."
Police has released dramatic CCTV footage of the incident, in the hope the thief will be caught.
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aidanbree said on Fri, 23 Apr 2010
Didn't look particularly violent to me. I expected to see the guy getting his head stamped on or similar. Looks like the guy had the bag wrapped round his finger. He shouldn't have been robbed but the yank journalists really like to sesationalise.
gordon said on Fri, 23 Apr 2010
If someone pulled half my finger off, I think I would call that violent.
Dragonfly said on Sat, 24 Apr 2010
@aidanbree
Yeeuurk, he stripped the skin off his finger and had to have part of it amputated, that's pretty violent. Possibly he didn't intend to injure the guy, but he did.
In some Arab countries he'd have his hand chopped off for that, so he couldn't do it again (nor could he ever use an iPad successfully). Hope they catch him.
Wonder if Apple will get a record of the products serial number when it's set up (With GPS positioning).
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