iBook Sale Creates iRiot

16 Aug, 2005 at 4:02pm ET Article published in Tech

CNN is reporting on a riot that broke out at the Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, VA during a sale of surplus and disposal iBook laptop computers from the Henrico County school system.

The Henrico County school system was selling one thousand 4 year old iBook computers which retailed for between $999 and $1,299 for only 50$.

People threw themselves forward, screaming and pushing each other. A little 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 his way through the crowd.

Source: CNN

Comments

16 Aug 2005 ~ 4:10pm FormFactor Souvenir T-shirts already available on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/HENRICO-COUNTY-50-iBook-t-shirt-kicked-in-the-balls_W0QQitemZ8327177210QQcategoryZ15687QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
16 Aug 2005 ~ 4:16pm QCH That's sad... 4 year old notebooks worth fighting over?

The shirt... good idea, take a serious issue and make a shirt and sell it.... give the profits to the people that were injuried.
16 Aug 2005 ~ 4:39pm Jengo lmao!! thats hilarious
16 Aug 2005 ~ 4:46pm Armo lol thats within a stones throw from my seat in my office right now, i was watching it on the tv's in the lunch room, 1 of the captions at the bottom was "got run over" when they were interveiwing people, now if it were 7800's for $50 id slay every one in my path and buy them all, but they had footage of people running and trampling people like war of the worlds was actually happening behind them.
16 Aug 2005 ~ 5:03pm qparadox Apparently they were used 12" ibooks with G3's around 500 MHz. They'd still probably be worth a $300-500 (not sure on the apple used premium ) and for people who couldn't afford a computer that's definitely a pretty tantalizing offer.
16 Aug 2005 ~ 5:55pm Leonardo

They'd still probably be worth a $300-500

Sure, if the Apple emblem is worth that much to someone. To some it is, to me, it's just a little plastic molding.

Just wait, there will probably now be lawsuits seeking damages for injuries caused in the riot. But of course, the lawsuits will directed at those with money, not necessarily the greedy idiots who ran with the herd.
16 Aug 2005 ~ 6:34pm BuddyJ Honestly, I find it sickening. People pissing themselves for a computer, hitting others with lawnchairs and trampling an old man. These people are fools. It's just sad.

Mactards. :shakehead
16 Aug 2005 ~ 6:50pm Armo kool, we made cnn, slashdot, and S-M, people are crazy here, thats why i live here
16 Aug 2005 ~ 7:10pm primesuspect what a bunch of idiots. Mactards? Hardly.. Just selfish *******s.
16 Aug 2005 ~ 7:23pm rc1974 ... Cabbbage Patch riots of '82 ... now Apple Ibook riots of '05.
17 Aug 2005 ~ 12:06pm danball1976 The school district should have put these up for auction. They would have gotten alot more money than just $50,000. I wonder how much they paid to rent the place for a day.