Tuesday, August 16, 2005

The Golden Rule

From Dallas Morning News:

"A rush to buy $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. ....When the gates opened, a mob scene ensued. People threw themselves forward, screaming and pushing. A girl's stroller was crushed in the stampede. Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive through the crowd."

And we thought all those looters after Baghdad fell were a bunch of barbarians.

2 Comments:

At 8/16/2005, Blogger mark said...

haha, nice last line!

 
At 8/26/2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

back from india i thought the $50 laptop scene was a broad joke on the IT revolution.. and not real..

dont tell me this was real.. and there was all this stampede.

 

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