Hopeless Geek

bq.. RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- 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 to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.

CNN.com - Panic ensues in rush for cheap laptops - Aug 16, 2005,

p. There is something very, very wrong with a situation when a four-year-old computer is sold for under a quarter of its current value, en masse, and there is no crowd control at all. Even the Apple Store has crowd control when selling a large amount of new products at full retail, much less a quarter of the current value.

Yet another Henrico blunder. Good one, -craps- chaps.