The Apple Store in downtown San Francisco got its own water fountain yesterday… sort of.
In the afternoon, a construction worker carrying out work on the the corner of Stockton and Ellis Streets, near to the Union Square brick-and-mortar store, accidentally burst a fire hydrant — resulting in a spectacular geyser of water erupting outside the Apple Store.
Although it didn’t last for long, the spectacle certainly made an impression on onlookers: one of whom filmed it using the slo-mo function on their iPhone.
You can check out the video here.
This isn’t the first time Apple’s San Francisco division has been menaced by a jet of water. Back in 2013, plans for a new Apple Store in the city were called into question when it was discovered that Apple’s designs included tearing up a beloved water fountain. Fortunately, Apple walked away from both water-based disasters relatively unscathed.
Apple will, incidentally, give you an Apple Store gift card if you trade in a water-damaged device. That’s certainly useful in situations like this one!
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
One response to “San Francisco Apple Store gets unintended water feature”
Wow, they’re still doing construction there? I remember the weirdness of navigating around that construction when I visited a year and a half ago.