Amid China's iPad 2 launch frenzy, witness says Apple staffer in scuffle with customer

BEIJING, China — A Chinese man says he saw a fight between an Apple store
employee and a customer amid a frenzy to buy the newly launched iPad 2.

Thirty-year-old Wang Ming says Saturday's scuffle at the Apple store in
Beijing's Sanlitun district was between a "foreign" Apple staffer and a
Chinese customer. Wang says he heard that the customer had cut into a line
and was a scalper.

Unconfirmed Chinese news reports said three or four customers were injured.
Wang says he was passing by when a bottle hit his head, causing a gash.

Photos taken in the aftermath of the scuffle showed Wang and another man
with a wound on his back lying on the ground outside the shop and the
store's glass front door shattered.

Apple Inc. staff could not immediately be reached for comment.

fren・zy[ frnzi ]
[名][U][C]

1 熱狂；逆上，狂乱，乱心，激高

in a frenzy (of delight)
（喜びのあまり）気が狂ったようになって

drive a person into a frenzy
人を逆上させる

work oneself up into a frenzy
狂乱状態になる.

2 狂乱発作，（発作的な）精神錯乱；躁(そう)病の発作.

━━[動](他)((主に受身))〈人を〉狂乱［逆上，熱狂］させる，夢中にならせる

become frenzied with grief
悲しみのあまり取り乱す.

［古フランス語←ギリシャ語phrentis（狂った）. △FRANTIC］

scuf・fle[ skfl ]
[動](自)

1 （…と）取っ組み合いをする，争う((with ...)).

2 あわてふためいて［音を立てて］歩く［動き回る］.

━━[名]（…間の）つかみ合い((between ...))；あわてて歩く［行動する］こと［音］.

scalper
［１］頭の皮をはぐ人.

［２］米話利ざやを稼ぐ人.

［３］米話ダフ屋（tcket sclper）.