$50 Apple iBook laptop sale sets off violent stampede
Most people wouldn’t stand in line and pay $50 for a four year old notebook, but fans of Apple’s iBook do. Nearly 5,500 people turned out to buy one of the 1,000 notebooks a local school was selling off for $50. People were seen wetting themselves in line and beating each other with chairs trying to get their hands on the cheaply priced iBooks.
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. An estimated 5,500 people turned out at the Richmond International Raceway in hopes of getting their hands on one of the 4-year-old Apple iBooks. The Henrico County school system was selling 1,000 of the computers to county residents. New iBooks cost between $999 and $1,299.
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