[X4U] Off Topic : iBook sale erupts in chaos, stampede!

[☪ubeistan]

That photo was in The Onion first, right?


On Aug 16, 2005, at 21:26, Todd Crider wrote:

> This morning Henrico County located in Richmond, VA. sold 1000  
> ibooks for 50
> dollars each. They were formally used by our school system which is  
> now
> switching to Dell laptops (what fun that's going to be!)  Anyway, this
> literally resulted in a stampede with multiple people being hurt.   
> 12,000
> showed up to purchase one.
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> Here is a tinyurl link to a online article by the Richmond Times  
> Dispatch.
> Check out some of the pictures.  Unbelievable!
>
> http://tinyurl.com/bfawe
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> Todd
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> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random  
> stuff:
>          http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984
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