--- title: Man Swings Sword at New York City Apple Store description: The incident was captured on video canonical: https://time.com/4123435/apple-store-sword-new-york-city/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-21T16:55:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:27:06.273Z og:title: Sword-Wielding Man Causes Panic at New York City Apple Store og:description: The incident was captured on video og:url: https://time.com/4123435/apple-store-sword-new-york-city/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sword-Wielding Man Causes Panic at New York City Apple Store twitter:description: The incident was captured on video twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sword-Wielding Man Causes Panic at New York City Apple Store by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 21, 2015 4:55 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 21, 2015 4:55 PM UTC A man [swinging a large sword](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Man-Sword-Apple-Store-New-York-City-Fifth-Avenue-352317061.html) appeared at Apple’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan Friday, terrifying shoppers. Video showed the man, 30-year-old Hsu Chien, waving the weapon on the store’s spiral glass staircase, NBC New York reports. No injuries were reported, and police eventually tackled Chien, who was then taken to a hospital for evaluation. “I have never in my life felt so terrified,” Nancy Birnbaum, who was at the store’s Genius Bar, told the network. “He pulled his sword out and everybody got back. I honestly thought that was it.” Watch video of the incident below: > [](https://twitter.com/borisrio/status/667826545227005952) Man Swings Sword at New York City Apple Store ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4123435/apple-store-sword-new-york-city/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4123435/apple-store-sword-new-york-city/"},"headline":"Sword-Wielding Man Causes Panic at New York City Apple Store","datePublished":"2015-11-21T16:55:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:06.273Z","description":"The incident was captured on video","url":"https://time.com/4123435/apple-store-sword-new-york-city/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4123435/apple-store-sword-new-york-city/","name":"Sword-Wielding Man Causes Panic at New York City Apple Store"}}]}] ```