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Henrico County iBook Sale Creates iRiot
pikester writes "What do you get when you combine 1000 used iBooks being sold for $50 and 1000 people desperately wanting to buy them? You get an iStampede of course! Add into the mix one guy who watches too much wrestling and one gal who re-lived her first Backstreet Boys concert by wetting herself and you'll being looking for video of the whole thing. CNN has some extra details as well." From the article: "Officials opened the gates at 7 a.m., but some already had been waiting for hours in line. When the gates opened, it became a terrifying mob scene. 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."
I'm really starting to think that money is the #1 concern in most Americans' lives right now. We see it every day with the Wal-Marts, the Best-Buys, the eBays, and anecdotal things like this. Don't people give a shit about anything other than themselves and how much crap they can acquire? I live in a small community that isn't quite as consumerist as most parts of the US, and I'm always amazed when I have to go into "the real world" and see how insane people get over money. Wow.
I don't respond to AC's.
Mac Users.
help me i've cloned myself and can't remember which one I am
Only something made by Apple would have this problem. That is, only something currently sold by Apple would be barely better than something they sold 4 years ago. [ ducks ]
Good God, man, that's fuckin' pathetic. Can you get off your whinging tear-jerker Bush-is-Evil performance even once in a while? For Christ's sake, man, it's a bunch of Apple retards, what has it got to do with the Decline and Fall of America (coming any time now)?
Fuck it