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$50 laptop sale sets off violent stampede

21 durable postsStarted 2005-08-16Latest 2005-08-19
#17846Post 1 of 21

[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8973616/[/url]

"One woman went so far to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line."

"People threw themselves forward, screaming and pushing each other. A little girl's stroller was crushed in the stampede. Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd."

Sounds like insanity....is a four year old used apple ibook really worth it?

#462310Post 2 of 21

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:ROFLMAO:

#462311Post 3 of 21

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crazy stuff. and they didn't even come with white headphones.

#462336Post 4 of 21

Jesse Sandler said he was one of the people pushing forward, using a folding chair he had brought with him to beat back people who tried to cut in front of him.

my kind of party

#462349Post 5 of 21

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check out the vid [url]http://www.wwbt.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WWBT/MGArticle/WBT_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784465955[/url]

nutters!

#462364Post 6 of 21

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G is for Ghetto....

         great reporting TaRhonda!
#462371Post 7 of 21

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those ibooks are POS... so outdated...

#462386Post 8 of 21

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Pretty fucking funny...and those people they interviewed weren't the brightest minds on the block too I think :D

#462422Post 9 of 21

^^since when do the media EVER interview the smart ones :lol: :lol:

What some people won't do for a deal :roll:

:ROFLMAO:

#462497Post 10 of 21

That is hillarious. :CrackUp:

#462580Post 11 of 21

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Someone actually tried to drive a car through a crowd like that?? Stupidity is amazing.

#462586Post 12 of 21

Here's a story of how out-of-touch some of these people really are:

I was an Operations Manager for Best Buy a few years back in Gainesville, FL. As you all know, the day after Thanksgiving is labelled 'Black Friday' and is the busiest shopping day of the year. Well, we had some special about 4 years ago that was a $29 DVD player that was one of those 'door buster' 6 hour sale items. In one of the other stores in our district (Jacksonville - Regency) there was a couple in line waiting before we even opened. Husband and his pregnant wife burst through the doors as soon as they opened and started running toward the DVD player. Wife trips over an end-cap and falls, husband continues to DVD player and grabs one. Comes back to make sure that wife is ok. Managers are already on the scene and are calling paramedics. She gets put into the back of an ambulance and the paramedics tell the husband that he can sit in the back with his wife. He proceeds to tell them...

Get this...

That he's going to stay back so he can buy the DVD player. They sue Best Buy and the company settles for a nice 5-digit sum.

:!:

#462597Post 13 of 21

hey ska.... remember our IM conversation from 5 minutes ago? I read this after that, and it looks like another case of you know what....

#462605Post 14 of 21

[img]http://photos.yafro.com/pics3/i/20050817/11/3/6/b/36b7dd1bf10d7de7f94da6cdeb507ae00_full.jpg[/img]

#462722Post 15 of 21

People that sue over shit like that deserve to be shot :x

#462739Post 16 of 21

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all that's missing is a bottlenecked corral outside the entrance, with a stage on one side, and a screaching punk band to play over the madness. make an event out of it-- cheap, stale beer and howling reverb.

everyone signs a release form at the entrance :twisted:

:RockOn: :BangHead: :smack:

#463117Post 17 of 21

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#463119Post 18 of 21

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#463243Post 19 of 21

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[img]http://i4.ebayimg.com/01/i/04/b6/dc/f6_2.JPG[/img]

[url]http://cgi.ebay.com/HENRICO-COUNTY-50-iBook-t-shirt-kicked-in-the-balls_W0QQitemZ8327177210QQcategoryZ15687QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]

:lol:

#463246Post 20 of 21

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i would go there just to stampede someone!! :P

#463267Post 21 of 21

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[quote=hulkhuss]i would go there just to stampede someone!! :P[/quote]

now that would be worth the 50 bucks!

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