Running of the Bullcrap
Posted on November 18, 2006
As you may be aware, the Playstation3 was launched this week to much fanfare and violence. People were shot, beaten, and rained on much to my amusement. My good friend Steve went to Columbia’s Best Buy to attempt to get his own, with frankly hilarious results.
The Best Buy people didn’t let a line form 3 days in advance like some stores *ahem*Circuit City*ahem* so the line was to form at 5:00AM and the store would open at 7:00AM. Steve saw an empty parking lot from the highway and believed everything was coming up roses. However, it turned out that the police had banned people from the parking lot itself, and so a throng of hundreds was forming across the street. People milled about for a while until the proverbial green flag was dropped and everyone broke into a full on foot race to the door.
Does this sound ridiculous? Good, because it’s about to get much worse. People had apparently been hiding from the cops in the parking lot, and sprang from trees and bushes in an attempt to get a head start to the door and the sweet sweet $600 electronics therein. Steve knew if he looked back all would be lost, but we all speculate that people were brutally trampled behind him. A tentative line formed at the front door, but when people in the back realized they were too far from the door to be guaranteed a unit, the mob rushed the door as a cloud of humanity. The police threatened to arrest people, so the line reformed but with Steve significantly farther back. So the dream of a launch day PS3 was dead, but he had memories to last a lifetime. God bless America!
Arielah
On November 19, 2006 at 14:18
that is one funny story :)