After spending nearly a week camped in front of the Fifth Avenue (NYC) retail store for the iPhone 3G debut and his White House Organic Farm cause, Daniel Simon had the welcome mat pulled out from under him at 8 a.m. Instead of entering the Glass Cube first, he was whisked away from the entrance by a security guard as he walked up to the door carrying a basket of apples and an American flag. No one has explained exactly why Simon was pulled aside, but he was later allowed to enter the store and make his iPhone purchase. Now, on a Fortune magazine Web page, Simon calls the incident, “a simple misunderstanding.” He explained that he was taking the apples into the store to share with employees. Simon said that Sr. VP Retail Ron Johnson had apologized to him about the incident. “We agreed it was EXTREMELY bad judgment on the part of one private security guard…and that bygones will be bygones.” Despite the encounter, Simon said, “All in all, it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life.”
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Thanks to the security guard this kook got the attention that he wanted. Let him start his own damn organic farm and leave the White House alone.
OK, riddle me this Batman! what exactly would happen 2 months ago or 2 months from now if any member of John Q public tried to enter an Apple store with a bushel of Apples? Most likely they would be told to leave the apples outside. In this age of heightened concern, if anything had gone wrong, and said bushel was a distraction or an implement for harm, you can be damn sure that all the critics on the sidelines would be quick to blame the security guard for not doing his job and for not enforcing security policies.
“All in all, it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life.”
Loooser!
On one side you have a naive young man with good intentions and the other a gruff no exceptions “security” person. We see them all the time at our airports! Ah, Johnny Appleseed in a grownup security atmosphere. They just don’t match!