Thursday, August 18, 2005
Now, these people are serious about their computer buying.
Frenzied shoppers grapple for laptops - Seventeen injured in race to buy $50 items.
People threw themselves forward, screaming and pushing one another. Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd...**I added the bolding to the text.
...Jesse Sandler said he was one of the people pushing forward, using a folding chair he had brought with him to beat back people who tried to cut in front of him.
"I took my chair here, and I threw it over my shoulder, and I went, ‘Bam,’ " the 20-year-old said nonchalantly, his eyes glued to the screen of his new iBook as he tapped away on the keyboard at a testing station. "They were getting in front of me, and I was there a lot earlier than them, so I thought that it was just," he said.
