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$sade: nationalpost: Shoppers riot at Beijing Apple store over delayed iPhonesEnraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc.’s flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches broke out with police on Friday when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the iPhone4S as scheduled.Apple said later after the fracas at its store in Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun district that it would halt all retail sales of the latest iPhone in China for the time being, but said the phones would be available online, through its partner China Unicom or at official Apple resellers.An announcer with a bullhorn told the Sanlitun store crowd around 7 a.m., before sunrise, that the phones would not go on sale as planned and that they should leave. As the crowd became more unruly, scuffles broke out between security staff and shoppers, many of whom had waited overnight in freezing weather. Police moved in and dragged some people away. Photos appeared on the Chinese blogosphere of a man who had brought raw eggs in a plastic bag, handing them out before people heaved them at the store’s tall glass windows.“We’re suffering from cold and hunger,” a man in his 20s shouted to Reuters Television. “They said they’re not going to sell to us. Why? Why?” (Photo: Feng Li/Getty Images) lmfao First of all, if you are hungry while waiting here, you are just plain dumb because you could send your friend up to Element Fresh or Blue Frog to get some amazing take out. Second, you cannot ask why in China. Finally, I was here a few weeks ago and there are always so many people selling fake iphones right outside of the store which is hilarious because that could never happen so openly in Canada.$

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Shoppers riot at Beijing Apple store over delayed iPhones
Enraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc.’s flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches broke out with police on Friday when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the iPhone4S as scheduled.

Apple said later after the fracas at its store in Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun district that it would halt all retail sales of the latest iPhone in China for the time being, but said the phones would be available online, through its partner China Unicom or at official Apple resellers.

An announcer with a bullhorn told the Sanlitun store crowd around 7 a.m., before sunrise, that the phones would not go on sale as planned and that they should leave. As the crowd became more unruly, scuffles broke out between security staff and shoppers, many of whom had waited overnight in freezing weather. Police moved in and dragged some people away. Photos appeared on the Chinese blogosphere of a man who had brought raw eggs in a plastic bag, handing them out before people heaved them at the store’s tall glass windows.

“We’re suffering from cold and hunger,” a man in his 20s shouted to Reuters Television. “They said they’re not going to sell to us. Why? Why?” (Photo: Feng Li/Getty Images)

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First of all, if you are hungry while waiting here, you are just plain dumb because you could send your friend up to Element Fresh or Blue Frog to get some amazing take out. Second, you cannot ask why in China. Finally, I was here a few weeks ago and there are always so many people selling fake iphones right outside of the store which is hilarious because that could never happen so openly in Canada.