Posted Nov 18, 2006 at 01:31AM by Mabie A. Listed in: News Tags: Wal-Mart, West Bend
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No chairs here, just carts50 people hoping to bring home a PlayStation 3 are outside your store at the eve of the launch. You only have ten units with you. What do you do to make it a fair fight among all of them? Bring out chairs.

Yep, veering away from the more simple and traditional method of drawing lots or holding a raffle, an assistant manager of Wal-Mart at West Bend decided to go for the more "exciting" musical chairs. The goal is simple. All the customers had to do was to elbow their way to get to the chairs at his signal. The ten people lucky enough to get out of the mob alive and into the chairs will be those who can purchase the console.

There weren't any music played, but if you'd consider the sound of bodies slamming against each other, or that of a head striking against a pole, or the sound of a stomping stampede as music, then yeah. We guess it may indeed be called a musical chairs game. But it wasn't as melodic as the assistant manager probably hoped it to be.

Reportedly, a 19-year old male injured himself after running straight into a pole. He was brought to a nearby hospital to be treated. One of the luckier customers hit his head on the chair and bruised his knee. Then again, he's probably saying a silent thanks to whoever shoved him in there, 'cause he was able to get a PS3.


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   by Snowspot.net (Unregistered) - 2006-11-18
 » Wii

I think we can all agree the guy that ran into the pole doesn't deserve a console...seriously...ran into the pole? Did he not see it? Oh **** I'll just run through it. Or perhaps, at the last moment he wanted to get a pity ps3 for injuring himself. If that guy can't even dodge objects directly in front of him I don't know how he's going to fair with the sixaxis XD



   Re: what? (Unregistered) - 2006-11-18
 » are you retarded?

he was shoved into the pole dumbass.

are you that much of a sony fanboy to not realize this console is so retarded it causes ***** like this to happen?
   by Ahm (Unregistered) - 2006-11-18
 » Dear God,..

Please, God, please bust that ***** manager's knees, elbows, head and, if you can, both his balls too so that even his "ex-future" children wont think of causing harm to people.

Seriously, that retarded piece of ***** needs to be thrown in jail for causing a riot that, obviously, resulted in injuries!

   by jesus (Unregistered) - 2006-11-18
 » ...

calm down buddy its just musical chairs. if we ban musical chairs, whats next?

if I was a walmart manager (which gladly, i'm not) I would probably also have the urge to treat people as cattle. after all, its the walmart way. don't blame him, blame walmart. BLAME WALMART.


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   Re: huh (Unregistered) - 2006-11-18
 » huh?

blame wal mart? but not the MANAGER who decided to do this?

you really are a dumbass.

yea wal mart sucks...but so are retarded people like this manager.
   by PSPS1PS2PSPPS3 - 2006-11-18
 » i live right by here

lol

   by Snowspot.net (Unregistered) - 2006-11-18
 » Lol

I'm not a sony fanboy, in fact I'm a wii60 supporter...but the guy ran into it...he wasn't pushed...I can tell cause HE is a sony fanboy.

I said it.

   by Snigle (Unregistered) - 2006-11-18
 » I was their

I live in Wi and was in line there and had to endure it, it was frikin madness. I dint even get my ps3, after that I decided that it was better to just wait. fyi he dint 'run' into the poll he was slammed into it by other crazy consumers.


   Re: tony (Unregistered) - 2006-11-19
 » i was there too

i was late on the run cuz i expected to hear the manager say "Go" and not "then go get a chair"

... i actually ran into the pile-up of ppl i think was actually caused by the man running into the pole


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