stupid people trample each other for 4 year old laptops

[ziggytrix]

Thousands show up for computer sale
Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. - People trampled, beaten with a folding chair. A woman urinating on herself. The police called, then themselves calling for backup. All to get a bargain.

The stampede erupted Tuesday when a crowd estimated at 5,500 showed up at the Richmond International Raceway to purchase 1,000 used Apple iBook laptop computers. The Henrico County school system was selling 1,000 of the 4-year-old computers to county residents for $50. New iBooks cost between $999 and $1,299.

"I could not move, I could not breathe," said Latoya Jones, 19, who lost one of her flip-flops in the ordeal and later limped around on the sizzling blacktop with one foot bare. "This is total, total chaos."

Officials opened the gates at 7 a.m., but some already had been waiting since 1:30 a.m. When the gates opened, it became a terrifying mob scene. People threw themselves forward, screaming and pushing each other. Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd.

Blandine Alexander, 33, said one woman standing in front of her was so desperate to retain her place in line that she wet herself.

Seventeen people suffered minor injuries, with four requiring hospital treatment, Henrico County Battalion Chief Steve Wood said. There were no arrests, and the iBooks sold out by 1 p.m.

[AChimp]

$50 is too much.

[ziggytrix]

I'd pay 50 bux for a G3 iBook, especially if the money was going to a local school. But I wouldn't shove an old man onto the pavement for one.

[AChimp]

What if you got the laptop AND got to push the old man, all for $50?

[Dole]

Blandine Alexander, 33, said one woman standing in front of her was so desperate to retain her place in line that she smeared herself in her own defecate and vomit, in an attempt to repel the other shoppers around her. When this failed, she threatened to 'rape everyone in this room' if she did not receive her discounted goods forthwith. Upon finally being presented with one of the second hand ibooks, she sat quietly amongst the crowd, smearing her own blood onto the laptop, wailing in an orgiastic frenzy of consumer satisfaction.

[El Blanco]

Originally Posted by AChimp

What if you got the laptop AND got to push the old man, all for $50?

You miss munderstood. He doesn't care about the laptop. He just wants to push around old people.

[Mockery]

Yep, that's my hometown. Scroll to the bottom of my latest piece for my thoughts on the whole stupid ordeal:

http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/watermelon05

Or you can always just see what El Serpento had to say about it:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/rva/709619.html

[Geggy]

Jeez I almost thought fires were bursting into flames in some of the pictures but turned out they were car headlights. But it wouldn't have surprised me if it was actually the fire.

[FPS Andy]

I wouldn't mind a $50 laptop, AND the chance to beat down seniors

[kahljorn]

"who lost one of her flip-flops in the ordeal and later limped around on the sizzling blacktop with one foot bare. "

Does it really get *that* hot in VA? ;/