Here is an excerpt from a news article on msnbc.com:
The sheriff said the robbery victim had waited three days in line to buy two Playstation 3 units for $641 each at a Wal-Mart. He was unloading the units at his campus apartment when one man beat him to the ground while another took the PlayStations, Causey said.
How can someone wait for three days in a line, all eager to spend $1282, for some video game hardware? The longest Black Friday wait that I have heard around my town started from Wednesday night 10:00 pm for a laptop at Best Buy.
Ironically, the not-so-gentleman guy who beat the playstation-madness guy, didn’t have long to enjoy his newly-stolen doodad. This is what happened to him:
Peyton Strickland, 18, was killed Friday at a house he shared with three roommates, New Hanover County Sheriff Sid Causey said……..Roommate Mike Rhoton said Strickland was unarmed, but may have been holding a video game controller when he went to the door as it was bashed in by officers.
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Lem and I tried to line up to buy these Playstations so that we could sell it on Ebay. Some guy paid close to $10K online for his son! Imagine that….. We went away empty handed. This was worse than lining up for my Elmo.
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Good grief … I understand “fanaticism” (*not one to throw stones, either*) but THIS is completely insane. Someone actually got killed over a Playstation, essentially. I mean, really. Over a GAME.
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