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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."

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  1. Re:First iRiot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    especially teh black people... they even still look like dem! lol!!

  2. Where's Darwin when you need him? by ahhell · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  3. Re:Reminds me of a song title by MBraynard · · Score: -1, Troll

    All the differenc a little 'i' can make. If they were simply 'books,' the only way those rioters have showed up that day was if that's where they had to pick up their welfare check.

  4. nigger by Ih8JewsAndNiggers · · Score: -1, Troll

    first post. i hate niggers. burn in hell all you jews.

  5. Re:It's An IBOOK!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

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

    iBook = OS X.

    'nuff said.

  6. Re:It's An IBOOK!!! by rayde · · Score: 0, Troll

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

  7. Re:minorities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I do hate to say it. There is no reason for this, and I can't understand why this behaviour seems to be a phenomenon of black populations.

  8. Re:Good times by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Remember, all these people are from one of the most toothless and stupid states in the union. Why do you think all these drooling, illiterate slobs are going crazy for a Mac? Are you surprised that they are also not potty-trained? "Ah'm gunna go git me wun uh dem dare macr-sawf winderz jobberz fer fifdy dawlerz an git hook'd up ta tha inner nayat," slobbered Goober as he leaned on a rusty pickup truck on blocks among 3' high weeds near the front porch of his trailer while 5 coon dogs slept nearby, "an ah'm gunna git it on mah way inda mah awfiss up at duh ay oh el."

    Any more questions?

  9. Christian Values... by The+Angry+Mick · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...don't ya just love 'em?

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    I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.

    1. Re:Christian Values... by The+Angry+Mick · · Score: 1, Troll

      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 . . .

      --

      I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.

  10. Re:That's right ladies and gentlemen by pilgrim23 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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?

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    - Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
  11. Re:That's right ladies and gentlemen by Xeleema · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who's footing most of the bill for that free food?
    That's right, me and my U.S. Homies.
    I'd beat the drek otta an old man for an iBook, given that I can pick the old man.
    I'd even get it on tape and send it to Adam Sandler if he's still doing those bits....
    "And now, we present to you; The sound beating of an elderly man to obtain an iBook...

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    "When I am king, you will be first against the wall..."
  12. Re:That's right ladies and gentlemen by damiangerous · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  13. Dicks, Pussys and Assholes. by HornWumpus · · Score: 0, Troll
    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.

    --
    John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
  14. LOOK AT TEH PICTURE: WABS, CHINKS, NIGGERS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Here is a picture of the mob

    Does anyone notice there are no or verry few white people? There is a bunch of low-class people there to buy a cheap low-class fag computer. Send them back to Redmond, give me a Sun Microsystems Sparc laptop at a hefty $5K pricetag and that'll be the deterant from all those fucktards.

    To confirm you're not a script,
    please type the word in this image: morphine

  15. THEY ARE ALL A BUNCH OF NIGGERS. HERE IS PROOF! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    (Also Note: any pictures you find on Yahoo Photo that don't have niggers in them, they are police and they're all spicks.)

    Financial aid photograph, proving that all the people in Virginia are a bunch of Niggers. Maybe, a bunch of Gay Niggers, but are that of America? I know for a fact that there are no niggers granted first-class citizenship to a state of America. That's why they need the 14th oxymoron amendment.

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    please type the word in this image: product

  16. Re:Reminds me of a song title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "In the ghetto...."

    Yeah - how about it? They throw a sale, and a bunch of niggers again prove they can't act civilized. Why is this news?

  17. GET OFF TEH RAGS: Niggers, Chinks, and Wabs. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You all know that colonies of ants are more orderly than all of you. At least the Chinks learned their language from ground squirrels. If you had any social standing, then it proves the only good thing you accomplished was to almost learn English language.

  18. Smoke daht reefer, mon. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Go getcha me .xxx domain name, yuh? Donchoo let go uf daht dick in deh hand wen yoo doo.

    Fucking niggers. I swear... Africa is among most fertile soil, the most diverse animals, and the stupidest people. There is no excusing a bunch of assholes that do nothing but kill, steal, and hold their dicks all day long poking shit in the woods and shit in the toosh.

    The system was designed, and aggressively engaged in, for the dehumanization of the people there. When the ruling groups left - they left a power vacuum of great magnitude and a broken down system.


    The only people powering that power vaccuum are a bunch of niggers on a water-wheel in the middle of a desert. Get a fucking clue, you blame everyone else before there were colonials, and you blame anyone that comes near you. The best of Africa are living in foreign country because you're all a bunch of motherfucking kikes. And even in foreign country you're the bottom of the barrel with respect to a few that lived solitarily and persued typical foreign speculations; like peanuts, cotton, tobacco, whitebread, whiteflour, whitesugar, and --oh yeah-- white women.