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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."
"In the ghetto...."
That's my state's citizens, neighbors, and friends at their best!
I couldn't be more proud.
*tear*
Blessed be he who reads this post, Cursed be he who tells my boss.
Everyone is at the sale...
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
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I usually only piss myself over new apple products...
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As a matter of fact, no, iWont.
"What do you get when you combine 1000 used iBooks being sold for $50 and 1000 people desperately wanting to buy them?"
Looks a lot like one each to me...
All white and promising good stuff. then you get really disappointed by the quality and want to knife your dealer.
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Steve,To:sjobs@apple.com
I think we've found the perfect price point to really boost Mac sales. I'll have marketing look into it, but as best I can figure, we'll lose money on every sale, but we'll make it up in volume.
See you in Paris next month,
Phil"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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Seriously, they had to expect this. They should've had a more orderly way to deal with this sale.
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NSFWCome on, doesn't everyone know they found all the golden tickets already?
You would get everyone living happily ever after with their iBooks. But there were actaully about 3000 people, which changes everything.
Actually, I bet most of 'em were Windows users, driven around the bend by viruses, bugs, and bloat, and desperate to switch. It's the only thing that could explain it.
So, we have a real live meatspace slashdotting.
Sigh.
No wonder everybody steers clear of this planet.
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first official slashdot post from a $50 iBook.
That's a trick question, right?
None of those people ended up with their lappy because some guy bought them all online while the mob was busy crushing strollers.
You just don't get this kind of exitement with Microsoft products ;)
Most people were disapointed when they got in and discovered that the ibooks were not in fact, cabage patch kids.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
You're right. A used, four-year-old iBook isn't worth $50.
The pursuit of absolute tolerance leads to the most rigorous and ludicrous intolerance. - REX MURPHY
It's like that MasterCard ad. But backwards.
Beating down losers with a folding chair: Priceless.
Urinating on yourself: Priceless.
Driving a car though a mob: Priceless
Loosing your shoe in the sweltering heat: Priceless.
iBook: $50
And why shouldn't a parent, I believe I saw the FATHER carrying the little girl and broken stroller, take their child to a public venue for a sale? It's not like it was advertised as "Come on down and battle for a 'puter!!! Grab your knives and nightsticks and leave the kids at home! First come, first beaten!!!" It was supposed to simply be the local citizenry purchasing used computers from the local government.
>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.
"I took my chair here and I threw it over my shoulder and I went, 'Bam,"' the 20-year-old said nonchalantly, his eyes glued to the screen of his new iBook, as he tapped away on the keyboard at a testing station.
"They were getting in front of me and I was there a lot earlier than them, so I thought that it was just," he said.
Hmmm.
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Michael L. Wade, Sheriff
sheriff@co.henrico.va.us
Sheriff Mike?
I got one for ya!
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"They were getting in front of me and I was there a lot earlier than them, so I thought that it was just," he said."
Woe to anyone trying to get first post before him.
Seattle, 16 August 2005
A rush to avoid Windows Vista turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over by people fleeing a public demonstration of Microsoft's "next generation" operating system. One woman went so far to wet herself rather than be forced to accept a DVD containing the beta release.
So THIS is what the Slashdot effect would look like in person eh? heh... wish I could have seen that!
Then again given the stampede, the crushed baby stroller, the lady peeing on herself and the guy swinging the folding chair, suddenly "already had access to a computer" is sounding like a pretty darn desirable filter. ;-)
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There's always a small group of folks who stand back and let the herd struggle with one another over baggage. We lean against the wall, amuse ourselves over the antics of our fellow human beings, and then go pick up our bags after the crowd thins out. Which takes what? All of five or ten minutes? In exchange for the free amusement?
Max
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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.
We used to make fun of the Soviets for standing in line for toilet paper. At least they were calm about it.
I went there with my mother and my sister, however, after people started running, I just wanted out. I only stayed for my sister.
To hell with your mother, eh?
I've seen it happen before my eyes, it wasn't very pretty....