undocumented.alien
18.11.06, 10:42
Oto typowe zachowanie obywateli amerykanskich, wielkich patriotow, ktorzy
przed domami wywieszaja flagi, na samochodach maja nalepki United We Stand, My
Brother Is In the Army, Support Our Troops, itp:
HARTFORD, Conn. — Two armed thugs tried to rob a line of people waiting for
the new PlayStation 3 game system to go on sale early Friday and shot one man
who refused to give up his money, authorities said.
In Sullivan, Ind., a man was in critical condition after emergency surgery for
a stab wound after he and a friend tried to rob two men of consoles they
waited 36 hours in line to buy, police said.
Nationwide, short supplies of the PS3 and strong demand led to long lines of
buyers, some waiting for days outside stores. Once the doors opened Friday,
they pushed and shoved their way to the shelves in several cities to get at
the limited supply. Two people were arrested in Fresno, Calif., after a crowd
trampled people in a parking lot.
About 30 miles away, another shopper was beaten and robbed of his new
PlayStation 3 just minutes after he bought it at a store in Manchester, police
said.
Andrew Templeton, 20, and David Wiggins, 28, of Sullivan, Ind., were assaulted
by two teens after waiting for 36 hours at a Super Wal-Mart, police said.
They were unloading their PlayStation 3s from their car when two teens
approached them carrying a chain and a tire iron and demanding their consoles,
said Sullivan Police Chief David Story.
A fight broke out. Wiggins' nose was broken, and he stabbed one of the
attackers, Dylan Moss, 19, police said. Moss was in critical condition after
surgery, officials said.
Elsewhere, two men wearing black ski masks and sunglasses made off with five
consoles after holding two employees at gunpoint at an Englewood, Ohio, video
game store Thursday night, police said.
A Pennsylvania teenager was also robbed of his new PlayStation by a man who
tapped on his car window with a handgun in Allentown, police said.
In Lexington, Ky., someone fired BB pellets from a passing vehicle at people
waiting outside a Best Buy store, according to WKYT, whose own reporter said
she was among four people grazed while she interviewed buyers in line.
Police fired a talcum powder ball at the ground outside a Target store in
Henrico, Va., to get the attention of an unruly crowd of about 350 people who
were waiting to buy one of the shop's eight consoles, police said.
In McLean, Va., police fired pepper pellets Friday morning to subdue a rowdy
crowd of about 200 people outside a Circuit City store at Tysons Corner Center
mall. One person complained of shortness of breath after the pellets were
fired and was taken to the hospital, authorities said.
A Best Buy store in Boston, aware it had only 140 of the consoles, got smart
about the big sale — its employees gave out tickets to the first 140 people in
line so everyone could go home until the store opened.
