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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 dragged a purple jolly rancher iMac about two miles and let me tell you, that cute little thing has the most painful plastic handle evar.
After a few blocks I picked up some newspaper to pad my poor plastic-groove indented fingers. Not that it helped much. To think: if I had waited a few weeks I could've tried my luck with a baby-stroller-crushing stampede and saved a few bucks!
( This is the pain I'm going through to bring out a Mac version of UNC drive client. You Mac people better like it. ; | )
Sheesh, what were they thinking?
Never let a lack of data get in the way of a good rant.
That's funny. I own a company that does well over 7 figures in annual sales. While I'm certainly not rolling in cash, I'm also not broke. But hey, good try!
I don't respond to AC's.