Man with iPhone Rage Threatens to Use Gun at Apple Store

Nicole Martinelli ()

Frustrated iPhone owner Donald Goodrich. @HCSO

Frustrated iPhone owner Donald Goodrich. @HCSO

There’s frustration over stuff like dropped calls and tethering troubles, then, you know, there’s Frustration.

The latter was apparently what fueled Donald Goodrich, 38, to threaten to pull a gun on his iPhone at the Kenwood Towne Centre Apple Store in Cinncinati.

Goodrich came in with an iPhone that wasn’t working properly, telling the employee he was “So mad, I could pop a 9mm at it.”

To prove he meant business, Goodrich flashed the employee a gun hidden under his jacket.

The cool-headed employee told Goodrich she’d get his phone fixed and walked him over to a Genius. She then told her manager of his iHomicidal intentions, who called police.

Goodrich was charged with aggravated menacing, causing fear of harm to an Apple employee. He’s expected to be arraigned this morning.

No word on exactly what drove him to want to kill his phone.

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Any guesses?

Via KY post, ifoapplestore

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  • Tyson

    OS3.1

  • Poppa
  • http://na RSanders

    wow….about 10 mins from my work lol

  • firesign3000

    holy crap, that’s right up the road from me!

  • Hans

    No Flash support? I know I want to pop a cap in my iPhone when it gives me those stupid blue cubes instead of Flash. J/K!

  • ALex

    Oh my, I was about to drive up to kenwood that same day. Probably a good thing that I didn’t with that loon running around.

  • Chris

    Well, if the guy had a legal concealed-carry permit, he doesn’t now.
    But the charges sound a bit overboard to me. Does Apple post ‘no firearms allowed’ signs?

  • Charli

    doesn’t matter Chris. a permit to carry, even concealed, isn’t a permit to flash it about particularly while enraged. and double when you express that you will use it in a tone that suggests that after the phone, you might put a cap in the employee that didn’t fix it. which could be the case here

  • hardenstuhl

    While I admire her courage I wonder how the genius felt after they had been told the guy had a gun in his waistband and he had threatened to murder his iPhone so I gave him to you while I ran for a manager.

    Thanks for nothing….

  • http://www.me.com me

    i’m guessing your 10 most beautiful apps review caused him to go off the deep end.

  • John T

    FREE DONALD GOODRICH! This week my new iPhone stopped working for the second time in a month – once again when I was on the road – and I was horribly inconvenienced for several days. Luckily for me, I don’t own a gun. I say, free Donald now and throw the iPhone team into jail in his place.

  • Erin’s Dad

    If he can’t get the arched John Belushi eyebrow thing fixed, will he be shooting himself in the head?

  • Willie

    AT&T’s service?

  • http://iPaperWeight.info Andrew Rouse

    most certainly was related to the recent bondogle known now as the Firmware 3.1 COMA bug.. http://coma.iPaperWeight.info that used to have 12,000 pages! If it happened to you, go fill out the details.