Apple Store shoppers rescued from glass elevator

[g-funk]

The New York City Police Department on Thursday was called to the site of Apple's flamboyant new retail shop to rescue a group of students who had become stuck inside store's glass-encapsulated elevator system.


The six students were visiting Manhattan as part of a school trip, one wrote in a blog posting about the incident. She said all but herself wound up stuck inside the captivating gizmo for about 45 minutes while the police were called to the scene.

As the students waited to be rescued, Apple Store employees used step-stools to slip bottles of water through the elevator's erratically opening and closing doors. All the students eventually exited safely once police leaked the hydraulic lines, though some were reported to have received minor burns.

The elevator is part of the $9 million 32-foot glass cube that rests atop the new Apple store in the plaza of the General Motors building on Fifth Avenue. It's wrapped by circular staircase -- also made of glass -- that takes patrons to the 20,000-square-foot subterranean retail space.

According to reports, the cube was designed and paid for by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. In fact, it's also been reported that Jobs demanded he be able to keep the structure at the end of the store's twenty-year lease (though he must replace it with a "comparable structure" before hauling it off).

The Fifth Avenue Apple Store elevator is now "out of order," according to tipsters who swung by location this holiday weekend.

[mac girl]

if I were there, I won't let them get me out
I mean seeing all of these beautiful mac products ! lock me in now !
thanks for the news, and as we arabs say it's just:
عين حاسدين lol

[g-funk]

You'll be trapped in the elevator and all the products are out side. :-) that's no fun :-p

[mac girl]

lol, I know.. but here I can't even see the mac products unless they were on the computer screen .. so, seeing the REAL products will mean alot to me ..
and don't worry, when they get me out I'll litigate Apple for this mistake of course unless they gave me a macbook pro

know do you now where can I lock my self ?

[g-funk]

:-)

[الطبيب المناوب]

is this SJ in the Jeans
is this was on TV too

[g-funk]

Doc.

It's not steve.. i guess it was in the news..i don't have 100% confirmation on that

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