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."

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Remember the poop phone?

[Marc2k]

Are you kidding me? I can't find a link to the article, but a year or so ago in Africa somewhere, a woman accidentally dropped her cell phone into a public outhouse. She offered a reward for its retrieval (which came out to something like US$14), and three people died down there from inhaling noxious fumes trying to get it out. Petty greed is part of the human character, dogg.