PS3 Line Insanity; Pregnant Woman Tries Not To Give Birth While Waiting
from the you-did-what-now? dept
While there are still plenty of questions about how successful Sony's PS3 device will really be, don't tell that to the die hard fans who are taking lining up and waiting to an entirely new level. There have been plenty of reports of fights breaking out at various stores among those waiting in line, with at least one drive-by shooting (though, using BBs, not a real gun) and even reports of people getting robbed while waiting. However, those don't top the list of most bizarre. Apparently, one woman who is nine months pregnant, has been trying to ignore her contractions in order to stay in line, while another woman who isn't even interested in gaming decided to line up just for the hell of it. Still, for some people, it appears waiting in line is too much work. Engadget reports that a dentist in Georgia wanted to buy a bunch of PS3s for his family, and hired 60 "temps" to wait in line at various stores for him. Meanwhile, if waiting in line or paying people to wait for you is too much, you could just go rob the store of all their available PS3s instead. Update: Well that was weird. For some reason Newsday changed their article and got rid of the section about the pregnant woman. It's still showing up in other versions of the article however, and other blogs have written about it too.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Yep
Damn drones... hold those babies in until we have your money!
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i hope that was said in jest?
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Take A Long Look At Your Fucking Priorities Sheeple. Christ.
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Why should we when all of these people here are doing such a good job at it for us already?
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This is crime
will never be my wife.
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A clear example of technology controlling people, instead of the other way around.
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The pregnaut lady
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And now come the problems
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in other words, GO AWAY.
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I expect people here will be more assertive, and courts will impose expensive fines. Sony will also make itself look bad by using their lawyers to go after people who post blogs of how to fix the problems.
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Uhmm, obviously the law considers a difference between a "real gun" and a "bb gun". I'm too lazy to go look up whatever that distinction is but its simple logic that there is a difference and that difference is defined.
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Spolied Rotten Rich Kids
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Idiots.
I hope to GOD all of the first versions of this console are riddled with bugs so every one of those idiots that waited in line for days has to send theirs in for repair and WAIT for it to be sent back.
HA! That would be awsome.
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X box 360. The tougher it is to get one the higher the price the market will demand. It is like buying up those concert tickets and scalping them
The guy with 60 temps is going to sell those bay boys. Do the math 60 X the price no body has that many family members they are going to give a gift with that price range. THat is like $30K before tax he will make $100K on the resale
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What pregnant woman
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?Pregnant Line Waiting?
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They edited it out. I've added more links to other coverage.
Very odd though. Not sure why they edited it out.
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funny but stupid, no wonder there's so many stupid people in the world
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Stupid people
I saw one kid on the news last night being asked why he was in line, and he said, "Uh, because it's like the newest thing, like, uh, the coolest stuff!" I think it will be REALLY cool when he gets it home and finds out that a lot of his old favorite games won't work on it! :~)
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Yeah, that'll work. Just ignore them. Hate to tell the dumb a$$, but "ignoring" contractions won't make them go away.
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What pregnant woman?
I also read the article and found NO mention of the pregnant woman. Either it was removed or everyone who posted about it likes to spout off without doing the most basic of research, like, reading the article that the comment was based on.
Maybe it was an experiment by TechDirt to see if people even bothered to read the article before posting. Or, perhaps everyone read the article before they editted it. Either way, any further posts about it will be proof that people dont read the articles.
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Ignorance
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Doesn't anyone know how to spell...
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a touch of reason
Duh! i guess that would defuse the hype if they all did that...
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I don't know why these are so noise !!!
I'm thinking on all these questions and... I've DECIDED!
I'll go to the line. But to wait for th PS4, since now!!!!
SUPER !!!! I'm the best !!!!!
Hehehehehehehehe!!!!
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add it to the every growing list of things that make me sad to be an American.
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Pregnant Lady and all these idiots
I agree with arresting that woman, that is endangering her child. Come on lady, if you lose that baby your going to want to blame everyone else but yourself! I'm not saying I don't have one because infact I do, but I wasnt crazy enough to do what a good precentage of America did. These people give gamers a bad image and name. You people are a DISGRACE to America and gamers across the globe. Act civilized for crying out loud!!!
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Dude..Multiple stuff..
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Dear Gordito,
Sincerely,
Daniel Bjorndahl
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giving a woman pregnant
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