This guy really loves his iPad.
Alex Paul waited in line three hours when the latest version of Apple’s uber tablet came out in March — so when a petty thief snatched it from his hands on a stopped Brooklyn subway train, Paul went into recovery mode.
Paul, a triathlete, chased the thief out the door and onto the platform at the Parkside Avenue station — and caught him on a staircase.
But when the iPerp reached in his pocket, apparently for a weapon, Paul backed off. iPads are very versatile, but there’s no app for that.
“I said, ‘What am I doing?’ ” said Paul. “I had my flip-flops on and I couldn’t get my feet right. But then I really started to sprint.”
But Paul, 32, didn’t leave the confrontation unscathed.
He said he felt the cartilage tear in his right knee just before he reached the mugger — an injury that will sideline him for three months after having surgery.
Paul, a carpenter, was on a Coney Island-bound Q train with his sleeping wife at around 6:30 a.m. Aug. 13 when he got caught up in a story on the iPad about the London riots.
“It was early in the morning,” Paul said. “I was not really being aware.”
