Teen Threatens To Blow Up SI Apple Store

This week 17-year-old Jason Barry, who we can only imagine is a disgruntled PC user, has been busted after threatening to blow the Staten Island Apple Store to bits. The NY Post reports that he typed a letter and signed it with his friend's dad's name on Monday, leaving it in the store, and warning that he would bomb the shop with C4 on January 17th.

The letter said, in part, "I have threatened your store and all its employees with a bloody death... whoever the crew maybe working, or the innocent citizens that walk in... will be eliminated with the force of a 98lb bomb located with C4, strapped to my chest." He was arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat, according to the 122nd Precinct. According to NY1, Barry says he was just kidding.

Also, Staten Island has an Apple Store.

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By Jen Carlson in News on January 14, 2010 1:10 PM

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S.K.

Perhaps the teen was fed up with Apple's price gouging. $40 for the plastic cover around your MacBook?

$900 for Final Cut Pro?!

His anger is understood!

ANGRYGOD11

Queens has about 10 times the population of Staten Island. Brooklyn has even more. And between the 2 most populated boroughs there's only 1 Apple Store?

Snoopy

It's called economic profiling.

Thelonius Funk

It's funny how excited the hipsters and yuppies on this blog get when they hear of a new apple location.

Snoopy

It looks like an Apple knockoff store.

seven

That's coming to Chinatown

jaycjay

I heard the DA is adding also adding a charge of misspelling a terroristic threat.

Dude69

I wonder if they can fill up their "Genius Bar" in that store. Also nothing less than jail time for the kid, and the Newark Airport romeo.

JMH

This is why Staten Island can't have nice things.

jimmycracks

"disgruntled PC user"

he probably was tired of everyone rubbing the apple status symbols they have in his face at high school and wanted to end it all

or android user

Vincent

I'll give Gothamist credit. At least they're finally acknowledging that NYC extends beyond Williamsburg, Park Slope and Manhattan.

imadick

staten island is a shit-hole that no one has cared about since the wu-tang dropped their last album.

longacre

They're coming out with a new one soon. I just heard the first single...it's atrocious.

mdow

Staten Island has an Apple store? Also, why?

sidenote

Exactly my thoughts on reading this story - not, "wow, what an awful thing to do", not "wow, this kid is an idiot", but "wow, SI has an apple store?"

Splicer

Trying to figure out how long you'll spend in jail? We've got an app for that.

Shinobi Shaw

SI has an Apple Store?

I thought Apple was careful with the locations because they wanted to keep a certain integrity.

THIS, Apple just took you down by notch.