Sorry? Tech CEO apologizes for rant but insists fruit vendors are a safety threat

A Silicon Valley CEO who sparked outrage for threatening to harass low-income fruit vendors in his neighborhood has issued an apology. Sort of

A Silicon Valley tech CEO who sparked outrage for threatening to aggressively harass low-income fruit vendors and "make their life miserable" now says he is "terribly sorry" - with an apology that continues to defend his position.

Mark Woodward, CEO of software company Invoca, published - and eventually deleted - a post on a public Facebook page saying that if fruit sellers were stationed outside his home in a suburb of San Jose, he would "do whatever it took to make them leave" even if "that meant destroying some of their produce, or standing out there with signs to chase everyone away".