RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.

Unbelievable, read the article, it gets far worst.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12397563.htm


(Stolen from http://www.siliconvalley.com)

http://home.kc.rr.com/chasie75/ibooks.jpg
http://home.kc.rr.com/chasie75/ibooks2.jpg

Images posted by chasie on the SA forums.

So they had 1,000 laptops, 5,500 people turned up, it turned into a mob scene at 7am, yet it still took until 1pm for them to sell out?

I like the beaten with a folding chair bit.

last edited by mission at 08:26:25 17/Aug/05

There's some photos in this forum -> http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1644242

cracker S7OL3 my ibook.

i thought that supply/demand theory would dictate that these laptops' prices be increased above $50...