Australian drops his new iPhone 6 on live television

There probably isn't a worse time to have butter fingers.

Jack Cooksey was the first customer in line at the Apple store in Perth, Australia. After camping out overnight to get his hands on the coveted new iPhone 6, the Today Show took him aside for a live unboxing of his brand-new phone. Unfortunately for Jack, excitement and television cameras made him fumble a bit...

...sending the shiny new iPhone straight onto the hard concrete as the crowd gasped. Thankfully, the phone managed to land face-up, and Jack averted true disaster.

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Samantha Rollins is TheWeek.com's news editor. She has previously worked for The New York Times and TIME and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.