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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."
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.
OMG! Zerg Rush!
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I usually only piss myself over new apple products...
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All white and promising good stuff. then you get really disappointed by the quality and want to knife your dealer.
From: pschiller@apple.com
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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NSFWYou 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.
first official slashdot post from a $50 iBook.
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!
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.
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
>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.
Henrico County Sheriff's Office
Michael L. Wade, Sheriff
sheriff@co.henrico.va.us
Sheriff Mike?
I got one for ya!
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I am waiting for someone to tell me that these iBooks are overpriced and they can get a Dell laptop for $40.
I'm not a Troll, it's reverse psychology.
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
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Consider it done.
A moron in an airplane threw a ream of papers out of the plane on a RAINY day each paper had a 1 dollar bill stapled to it. the ream of papers did not seperate, it fell as one brick 200 feet until it hit me in the head.
Is this why you're called Lumpy now?