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You deserve to get shot for lining up to buy PS3.  Linky  (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/18/business/NA_TEC_US_PlayStation_3.php)


Suckers. They prefer to get robbed by Sony.

Are you trying to be a dick or does it just come naturally?

Not surprising, but it still sucks. I feel sorry for the guy who got mugged by 5 people just after he got his.

They were just trying to buy a game console.

Police use paintballs?  I had no idea....

They usually don't. Most times they're rubber balls that hurt like a bitch. But, I guess since they're all lining up for a PS3 the police didn't think they could take such pain.

They probably thought that repeated use of a taser might damage the Playstations.

No one deserves to get shot or even robbed while waiting in line to buy anything other than crystal meth, crack or heroin.

However, being 350th in line to buy a console at a place that probably won't have more than a couple of dozen in Connecticut in November is absolutely deserving of a head cold and mild bronchitis.

"Yes...erm...we have to confiscate the evidence, you see..."

Some police use paintballs loaded with pepper spray. I'm told it's quite effective.

I need some of those next time I have to play paintball against people who spend thousands on their gear...even the odds a bit.  :evil:

So the police actually buy the paintball guns (my nephew is a pretty active paintballer (?)... in fact, he was the first person in the NE United States to get Lyme Disease because of it or something like that.   :-()  and you can actually get those balls filled with pepper?  I've never heard of the police using this sort of stuff.  I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing but it's certainly an interesting thing.  It has such potential, too.  Fill 'em up with honey and let loose the bears!  Or something.

They could just cut to the chase and fill the balls with bears.

There's naught scarier than watching bear balls screaming towards your face.

Psycho.

(http://www.homeralaskacharters.com/2006/Bear.jpg)

Yeah that guy what got shot? Turns out he was an unemployed Ebay profiteer waiting in line with his 3 friends to buy 4 PS3's to sell on Ebay (http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/28/ps3-shooting-victim-is-unemployed-ebay-profiteer/).

After being shot, he was more concerned that his friends got their systems than the bleeding. Fuckhead.

They also somehow managed to find and arrest the shooters. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061128/ap_on_re_us/brf_playstation_shooting_2)

This guy didn't fare so well. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16042423/?GT1=8816)

Shame about the dog.

This same story (http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061203/NEWS/612030440) is the one I wanted to bring up.  People have been jumping on both sides, to the defense of the officer or the deceased.  Unfortunately, the story lacks a bit of details, making it tough to determine whether or not the officer was justified to shoot or not.

On one hand, here we have an 18 year old kid gunned down in the prime of his life.  He was young, had he lived another ten years he'd probably be a very different person.

On the other hand, in order to obtain the PS3, this same 18 year old kid and his buddy drove their car up to another guy's, go out, bludgeoned him a 6-foot blunt object, and stole his new PS3 purchase out of his twitching hands.  Though the victim escaped with "bumps and bruises", these idiot kids could very well have killed someone in their stunt to get their hands on this console.

If that's what they consider the proper way to get their hands on a PS3, you've got to wonder how the rest of their life is like.  One of them getting gunned down in cold blood in his own home is probably just the karma of their lifestyle manifesting in the worse possible way.  Live fast, live dangerous: die young.  You hear it all the time.

If any innocent died in this one, it'd be the Germand Shepard who was innocent on virtue of just being a dog.  Of course, if I've got a gun in my hand and a German Shepard driven into a blood frenzy in its desire to avenge its fallen master, I'm not going to ease up on the trigger.

It's all part of The Miracle of Life (tm).

Look Out, He's GOT A LIGHTGUN !

Some of think of it, there's a third guilty party in that story.  The guy that bought two PS3s.  I betcha he was planning on eBaying one or both for double its price.  That's probably not worth geting beaten by a six foot object, but the inner gamer suggests it might be.

Consider there are idiots out there willing to pay two to three times the price instead of waiting a few months.  I don't particularly like greed, but I cannot see that he did anything wrong.

Nothing wrong with taking money from stupid people.

There is when there's a limited supply and they're snatching the PS3s out of the hands of people who can't afford to pay double the price on eBay.

What's the advantage of having it NOW? You get some of the games out of the way?

Do the sane thing - wait a few months. Until like...March. That's what I keep telling people in Gamestop anyway.  :evil:

Need. It. Now. Now! NOW!

Yeah, still not swaying me.

I'm definitely waiting.  Same thing with the Wii.  January, at the earliest.

Yes. We call this a cliche.

True, but there's a difference between an unsubstantiated cliche and one you can find periodic supporting evidence for.