Bizarre Tech Story of The Week...
This comes from MSNBC, and is truely the most bizarre thing I've seen in quite a while...
The Henrico County school system decided to sell 1,000 iBooks at Richmond International Speedway for $50 each. These weren't last weeks models that they were selling, but 4 year old used machines. My guess is that they were used by the school system for the past 4 years, so they were running older versions of the Mac OS, outdated processors, and were probably a bit road weary too...
But that didn't stop more than 5,500 people from showing up, some waiting since 1:30 AM to try and get their hands on one of these machines. Sadly though, that's not the bizarre part...
When the gates opened at 7AM the crowd quickly became a rioting stampede. 17 people were injured and 4 of those required hospitalization as the crowd rushed inside pushing and screaming. Reports on MSNBC say that a baby stroller had been crushed, an old man pushed to the ground, somebody in a car actually tried to drive THROUGH the mob.
One woman waiting in line relieved herself in her pants instead of giving up her place in line. A 20 year old claimed that he used a folding chair to beat back people who he felt were cutting in front of him...
PEOPLE THEY'RE FOUR YEAR OLD COMPUTERS!!!!!
I've said it before and I'll say it again, people suck!
The Henrico County school system decided to sell 1,000 iBooks at Richmond International Speedway for $50 each. These weren't last weeks models that they were selling, but 4 year old used machines. My guess is that they were used by the school system for the past 4 years, so they were running older versions of the Mac OS, outdated processors, and were probably a bit road weary too...
But that didn't stop more than 5,500 people from showing up, some waiting since 1:30 AM to try and get their hands on one of these machines. Sadly though, that's not the bizarre part...
When the gates opened at 7AM the crowd quickly became a rioting stampede. 17 people were injured and 4 of those required hospitalization as the crowd rushed inside pushing and screaming. Reports on MSNBC say that a baby stroller had been crushed, an old man pushed to the ground, somebody in a car actually tried to drive THROUGH the mob.
One woman waiting in line relieved herself in her pants instead of giving up her place in line. A 20 year old claimed that he used a folding chair to beat back people who he felt were cutting in front of him...
PEOPLE THEY'RE FOUR YEAR OLD COMPUTERS!!!!!
I've said it before and I'll say it again, people suck!
posted by Michael @ 5:49 PM
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