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."

Comments

Where's Darwin when you need him?

[ahhell]

What the hell is wrong with people? Jesus..its a 4 year old computer!!! Sure it's only 50bucks but come on!! That one chick pissed herself!!! People like that should still be living in caves flinging feces at each other. People are like that here too (Winnipeg, MB). Some crappy radio station was giving away 10bucks in free gas to people. Woopdee-friggin-do!! That wouldn't even be 10litres (1.05 a litre). People waited in line for hours. I think it's time to start sterilizing people. Too much stupidity in the world.

Re:It's An IBOOK!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

AlienWare = overpriced computer that can only run Windows or Linux (since BSD is dead/dying).

iBook = OS X.

'nuff said.

Re:It's An IBOOK!!!

[rayde]

it's not the hardware they're after, it's the OS :)

Re:That's right ladies and gentlemen

[pilgrim23]

I have seen several videos of the long long lines and the eventual door opening at Apple Store Grand Openings. These events also seem to draw people wanting iBooks. Thousands of them. None of thse events resulted in riot. Why might that be?

Re:That's right ladies and gentlemen

[damiangerous]

Dammit. That wasn't me, it was a friend of mine who wanted to say that but doesn't have an account. It was was supposed to go as AC. I have never been in the military, nor outside of North America and do not claim to have been.

Re:Christian Values...

[The Angry Mick]

Oh, come on. Lighten up a bit. I was poking at how fast our civilised nation drops any pretense of civility and good behavior at the mere mention of a killer sale.

Besides, it's not a "he" we're talking about, but a "they"; a few hundred "thems". And I'm willing to bit a fairly large chunk of my money that a very high percentage of those people call themselves "Christians" (after all, approximately 77% of Americans {myself included} do). That is, they probably do when they're not engaged in riotous, and, apparently for that last fellow in the CNN article, "righteous", violence in the name of capitalistic opportunity.

Ah Mammon, we know ye too well . . .

Dicks, Pussys and Assholes.

[HornWumpus]

Assuming the laptops were being sold for $150 less then market. What would you do to someone who just took the money from you?

It's the same thing, someone takes something from you.

You can be a bitch and go crying to teacher (and get nothing for your effort), or you can hit them in the head with a folding chair.

I would hit them in the head twice with the edge of the chair (not the flat). Those cutting think their might gives them the right to cut. Being more ruthless is then the other bastard is the key.

Dicks, pussys and assholes explains it all. Be a dick. Kick the shit out of the asshole cutting in line.