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18th August 2005, 14:58
Fight around Second hand iBooks
21 injured at sale of 50 dollar laptop computers
At a fight around 1,000 second-hand iBooks Virginia (pte) was -- delivered in the U.S. federal state Virginia 17 person injured slightly and four to the hospital. The four years old computers were handed in by 50 dollars because the schools have changed over from Apple computers to Dell in the Henrico County.
The sale had to be bought for the night to Wednesday of Apple laptop computer needed more than 5,500 people hired in the Henrico County already shortly after midnight before a school, around one of 1,000 to have himself by 50 dollars attached for nine o'clock into morning however after the queue was already several kilometers long have the organizers brought the start appointment forward by two hours. When the gates were opened attacked the waiting after in front of around a chance of a cheap iBook have.
In the tangle of people you trampled around, a chair was thrown, an older man was knocked down, a baby carriage knocked over and a desperate buyer has tried to drive his car through the crowd report eyewitnesses, that. Observers describe the scene as "terrifying" and "total chaos".
Despite great police detachment there weren't any arrests. The authorities of Henrico County haven't expected the rush. "It is strange that there is such a gigantic crowd on laptop computers which presumably are no longer quite working", so Paul Proto, a spokesman of the district administration. The officials wonder now how they can organize the close-out sale in future. According to unconfirmed estimates altogether 12,000 people were present at the sale.
21 injured at sale of 50 dollar laptop computers
At a fight around 1,000 second-hand iBooks Virginia (pte) was -- delivered in the U.S. federal state Virginia 17 person injured slightly and four to the hospital. The four years old computers were handed in by 50 dollars because the schools have changed over from Apple computers to Dell in the Henrico County.
The sale had to be bought for the night to Wednesday of Apple laptop computer needed more than 5,500 people hired in the Henrico County already shortly after midnight before a school, around one of 1,000 to have himself by 50 dollars attached for nine o'clock into morning however after the queue was already several kilometers long have the organizers brought the start appointment forward by two hours. When the gates were opened attacked the waiting after in front of around a chance of a cheap iBook have.
In the tangle of people you trampled around, a chair was thrown, an older man was knocked down, a baby carriage knocked over and a desperate buyer has tried to drive his car through the crowd report eyewitnesses, that. Observers describe the scene as "terrifying" and "total chaos".
Despite great police detachment there weren't any arrests. The authorities of Henrico County haven't expected the rush. "It is strange that there is such a gigantic crowd on laptop computers which presumably are no longer quite working", so Paul Proto, a spokesman of the district administration. The officials wonder now how they can organize the close-out sale in future. According to unconfirmed estimates altogether 12,000 people were present at the sale.