Cheap iBook Mob Scene
Boy, I sure am glad we didn’t go down to get one! We seriously considered it after hearing about the $50 laptops a few weeks ago on TWIT (Episode 15). Now Drudge links to this story from a Richmond television station:
The school district had only 1,000 of these surplus computers to sell, and Henrico County residents got first dibs. Starletta Wilson came to the sale but when the gates opened at 7 a.m., chaos broke out.
“Yeah, they pushed me, look at my child’s stroller… they actually pushed me and stampeded over me. Those people who are down there now were behind us,” Wilson said.
Dustin Coppinger, who attended the sale, said he saw an older man get trampled.” An old man in a walker was trampled to the ground. Trampled to the ground… walked all over,” he said.
Shame. They should have called the cops and had those fools arrested.
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