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New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones
turbosaab writes "A woman who said she was asked to leave New Hampshire's Pheasant Lane Mall because she wanted to buy too many iPhones was pinned down by Nashua police and zapped by a Taser (video) as she shrieked in front of crowds of shoppers Tuesday. The Chinese woman from Newton, Mass blamed a language barrier for the confrontation outside the Apple Store in the Pheasant Lane Mall Tuesday afternoon. Police say Li knew exactly what they were telling her and simply refused to comply. Police said Li had $16,000 in cash in her purse at the time of her arrest and may have been purchasing the phones for unauthorized export resale."
How are they supposed to make obscene profits if people 'illegally export' things?
There's an app for that.
... you mean she had enough to buy a few iPhones ?
Oh my god, arrest her, she has money, she must be doing something illegal !
Uh.. I don't think it's because the police were out of shape. They sure could have tackled and pinned her to the ground, which likely would have caused a hell of a lot more long-term injury to her than simply getting tazed would.
They did; for fuck's sake, man, it says so right in the damn summary!
I mean, shit! I see why nobody RTFA's anymore, it seems some folks can't even make it through the
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Cash transactions at banks over $10,000 are subject to special reporting requirements, thanks largely to the War on Drugs. It wouldn't surprise me if trying to make any kind of cash transaction for $16K draws unwanted attention in the current police state environment.
Obviously, she was taking the money she earned selling drugs, and laundering it by buying iPhones for cash, then reselling them. Makes perfect sense to a cop, who has been trained to assume that EVERYBODY is a criminal....
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Don't taze me, iBro!
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>We do not live in a police state.
Let me guess...
We live in a police planet?
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This. I think a good solution here would be for police to just tase anyone attempting to buy an iPhone in an Apple store.
It's an elegant, simple, user-oriented solution to an age-old problem. It could be augmented by intelligent choices among typefaces, and skeumorphisms to make the analogy clearer. And you have to admit, it has a certain Steve-Jobs-flair (tm) to it, don't you? The policeman could come right up to your face, and with a breath wreaking of donuts and stale coffee, shriek "OH AND JUST ONE MORE THING!!" right before pulling the trigger.
Android simply couldn't compete with this. Apple's vertically-integrated retail channels offer "marketing leverage". Apple would be lifting something that was previously a simple transaction and transforming it into an integrated, social experience. Again, Apple is setting the pace.
If she won't leave, and either doesn't (or pretends not to) understand commands, what else are you supposed to do? Spend 4 days developing some kind of rudimentary language bridge and debate the finer points?
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
high tech weaponry.
They were tasers, not phasers. Sheesh.
Woman: I just wanted some phones.
MallCop: You bought too many, ma'am.
Woman: They're Christmas presents.
MallCop: Ma'am. Your agonizer, please.
I'm sure the police are checking that their tasers are charged at this very moment...
I wonder if the tasers are made in China too?
the iZap 2000 is made in china.
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Yes, your views are sexist. Women today are fully equal, and equally as deserving (undeserving) of having violence used against them as men.
Not on the phone, on the iPhone.
If the battery was replaceable, she wouldn't have had to buy so many phones at once.
Not really relevant. A store doesn't have to sell you multiple copies of something. You can't take the store hostage to force them to sell you more.
And the proper response to this is to taser her.
Clearly you've never dealt with rabid Apple fanboys.
Tasers are often ineffective. We've got orders to shoot on sight.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.