What happens when you glue a brand new iPhone 5 to the pavement?

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People around the world have queued for days to get their hands on Apple's new iPhone 5.
So if you saw one just lying on the floor would you pick it up? If a video made by a team of Dutch pranksters is anything to go by the answer is yes.
The coveted smartphone does not go on sale in the Netherlands until Friday, but the boys at iPhone5.nl somehow got their hands on one ahead of the release.

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Won't budge: A youth in a hooded top tries and fails to prise the glued iPhone from the pavement
Is that a... Dutch pranksters glued Apple's new iPhone 5 to one of the busiest squares in Amsterdam and filmed people trying and failing to prise it from the pavement
Is that a... Dutch pranksters glued Apple's new iPhone 5 to one of the busiest squares in Amsterdam and filmed people trying and failing to prise it from the pavement
Exclusive: The coveted smartphone does not go on sale in the Netherlands until Friday, but the boys at iPhone5.nl somehow got their hands on one ahead of the release
Exclusive: The coveted smartphone does not go on sale in the Netherlands until Friday, but the boys at iPhone5.nl somehow got their hands on one ahead of the release
This should hold it: They used super strong super glue to stick the handset to the ground
This should hold it: They used super strong super glue to stick the handset to the ground
The decided to stick the model to a pavement in the Leidseplein, one of Amsterdam's busiest squares, with super glue and set up a video camera to capture the results.
The iPhone's shiny casing was something of a beacon to passers by. Most attempted to pick the handset up before realising it was glued to the floor and hurrying off red faced and giggling.


    Others spotted the phone and looked around shiftily before casually reaching down to scoop it from the concrete.
    Duped: After failing to prise it from the ground, the man walks off red-faced and giggling while holding an older iPhone model
    Can't be: A man debates whether to pick up the iPhone 5 handset that has been secretly glued to the ground
    Should I? A man debates whether to pick up the iPhone 5 handset, left, but walks off red-faced and giggling after failing to wrench it from the ground
    Covert: Some looked around shiftily before attempting to pick the iPhone 5 up from the ground
    Is anyone watching? Some looked around shiftily before attempting to pick the iPhone 5 up from the ground
    Is anyone watching? Some looked around shiftily before attempting to pick the iPhone 5 up from the ground
    ...Others simply pointed the discarded handset
    ...Others simply pointed the discarded handset
    Look! Others simply pointed at the discarded handset 
    ...Before taking a photograph of it
    ...Before taking a photograph of it
    Some got angry, kicking the phone in an attempt to release it from the pavement. One girl even stamped and jumped on the handset.
    At least the rather amusing experiment proves one thing: the new model is certainly durable - even if the battery life is still a bit iffy.
    They came, they went...without the iPhone: A man attempts to pick up Apple's new handset not knowing it has been glued to the floor
    They came, they went...without the iPhone: A man attempts to pick up Apple's new handset not knowing it has been glued to the floor
    They came, they went...without the iPhone: Two others attempt to pick up Apple's new handset 
    Now now: Some got angry and attempted to kick the phone off the ground before jumping on it
    Now now: Some got angry and attempted to kick the phone off the ground before jumping on it
    Old and new: Apple's new iPhone 5, left, is a bit longer and thinner than the older iPhone 4s, right
    Old and new: Apple's new iPhone 5, left, is a bit longer and thinner than the older iPhone 4s, right

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    Source: dailymail.co.uk
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