Killing for the PS3??

[Dirty Little Thing]

HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- 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.

It was about 3 a.m. when the two gunmen in Putnam, a town of about 9,000 residents in northeast Connecticut, confronted 15 to 20 people standing outside a Wal-Mart store and demanded money, said State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance.

"One of the patrons resisted. That patron was shot," Vance said.

Vance said the two gunmen fled after shooting Michael Penkala, 21, of Webster, Massachusetts, in the chest and shoulder. Penkala was in stable condition at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, with injuries not believed to be life threatening, Vance said.

Police were searching for the suspects, both believed to be in their teens, Vance said. He said one was wearing a ski mask and brandishing a handgun, and the other had what appeared to be a shotgun.

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.

The shopper told police five men surrounded and beat him as he left the Shoppes at Buckland Hills with the new PlayStation.

Police Sgt. Chris Davis said the attackers pushed one of their cohorts out of the car as they drove away. That man, a 17-year-old from Windsor, was charged with robbery, larceny, assault and breach of peace.

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, California, after a crowd trampled people in a parking lot. (Watch shoppers make a dash for PS3s -- 1:05)

In Sullivan, Indiana, 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.

Andrew Templeton, 20, and David Wiggins, 28, of Sullivan, Indiana, 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.

Sullivan County Prosecutor Bob Springer said he plans to charge Moss and accomplice Dustin Fagg, 19, with felony robbery.

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, Kentucky, 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, Virginia, 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.

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.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/17/playstation.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest



Wow.... 

[-Jack-]

What fools.. honestly.

Sad state society is in.

[SuperMike]

Damn, that's fucked up.

[Bill 213]

This whole PS3 thing in general makes me sick.  To step away from the shooting which is horrible in the first place, this whole limited quantity ordeal is a crock of shit.  For me, I don't give a flying fuck about the PS3, I'll never own one and wouldn't waste my time on it......but there are people going literally nuts over these things.  Like they're the fucking greatest thing on earth...they've had instances where people have paid up to $10k already for one.  They were being resold heavily on ebay for average $2-3k, but I think ebay said it was going to regulate that.  People at the Best Buy in State College, PA were actually selling their places in line for like $500.
I went to Wal-mart at midnight of the 17th because I had just gotten off work and had to get dog food and I seen a flurry of people in there arguing and fighting over them.  They're lining up already for the other Nintendo one coming up.  The funny thing about it is, these first few PS3s are going to be a crock of shit anyway.  That thing is going to have so many flaws and bugs in it that it won't be funny.  But eh...to each their own.  I'll stick with my Altered Beast arcade machine in the den.

[Bandita]

http://video-games.search.ebay.com/play-station-3_Systems_W0QQcatrefZC12QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQfromZR10QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQsacatZ62054QQsaprchiZQQsaprcloZ

Look at this insanity on Ebay!? ?

Look at this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Playstation-3-PS3-60GB-Free-Overnight-Shipping-Blu-ray_W0QQitemZ150059269467QQihZ005QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

http://search-completed.ebay.com/play-station-3_W0QQcatrefZC5QQfclZ3QQfisZ2QQflocZ1QQfromZR32QQfrppZ50QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3QQfssZ0QQgetresultZQQsaaffZafdefaultQQsacatZQ2d1QQsacurZ0QQsaslcZ0QQsaslopZ1QQsbrsrtZd

All the closed auctions.

WTF would pay these prices for a game machine?  This is total insanity!!!

[tim_m]

people are fucking crazy plain and simple. its just a gaming console!

[Bill 213]

Simply put, people go nuts with money.  Have you all read the new studies that they did that show people tend to get happier when around money.  I had to laugh and throw my two cents in..."NO SHIT SHIRLOCK, IT'S FUCKING MONEY."  Some scientist got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to come to that conclusion!!

Anyway.....I hate the PS3 more than ever now.  That thing is an annoyance and a half.

[Bandita]

It was actually INFURIATING me that people are spending so much money for this stupid thing.  Not to mention the lunatics committing crimes over it.

10k for a game machine, you could have almost bought a friggin CAR.  Come ON

[SuperMike]

The people mentioned in that article posted above sound worst than than the people with the X-BOX 360 last year, at least what I remember of.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Losers....


Just wait a couple of weeks...if you want it THAT BAD and want to spend so much, geez.

[SLCPUNK]

Simply put, people go nuts with money.  Have you all read the new studies that they did that show people tend to get happier when around money.  I had to laugh and throw my two cents in..."NO SHIT SHIRLOCK, IT'S FUCKING MONEY."  Some scientist got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to come to that conclusion!!

Ironic that I just read another study that is showing about 40 percent of Americans at retirement age have no means to retire.............

Gee, wonder why.

[JuicySwoos]

Simply put, people go nuts with money.? Have you all read the new studies that they did that show people tend to get happier when around money.? I had to laugh and throw my two cents in..."NO SHIT SHIRLOCK, IT'S FUCKING MONEY."? Some scientist got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to come to that conclusion!!

Ironic that I just read another study that is showing about 40 percent of Americans at retirement age have no means to retire.............

Gee, wonder why.

Lol, ain't that the truth. I work in finance and come across those 40% on a daily basis.  I wonder what percentage of the boobs that are paying $2,$3,$4,+ thousand on these things can actually truly afford them.  I am sure there are a few extremly well off people buying it for little Johnny for xmas, but I wonder how many of the purchases are going on the Visa.

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

ahahah silly

WII is way better

[pilferk]

ahahah silly

WII is way better

I'm going to line up for mine this afternoon. 

I got a chance to play at a demo kiosk and that pretty much alleviated my concerns about the controller.

Price tag ($249) is a lot easier to swallow, too.

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

ahahah silly

WII is way better

I'm going to line up for mine this afternoon. 

I got a chance to play at a demo kiosk and that pretty much alleviated my concerns about the controller.

Price tag ($249) is a lot easier to swallow, too.

i had one for a couple days from some buddies at ubisoft

now im waiting for my real one on december 8th  in france

what game are you gonna get ? zelda ?

[Guns N RockMusic]

I got 3 machines yesterday. 2 20GB models and 1 60GB model. I sold the 20s for 1200 and the 60gb for 1400.  I'm quite content with my profits even though I could have made much more.  God damn I love capitalism.

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

I got 3 machines yesterday. 2 20GB models and 1 60GB model. I sold the 20s for 1200 and the 60gb for 1400.  I'm quite content with my profits even though I could have made much more.  God damn I love capitalism.

where do you sell em ?

yeah capitalism
.... too bad you're going to hell

[Guns N RockMusic]

I got 3 machines yesterday. 2 20GB models and 1 60GB model. I sold the 20s for 1200 and the 60gb for 1400.? I'm quite content with my profits even though I could have made much more.? God damn I love capitalism.

where do you sell em ?

yeah capitalism
.... too bad you're going to hell

Ebay.  I don't believe in hell.

[Dirty Little Thing]

ahahah silly

WII is way better

I'm going to line up for mine this afternoon. 

I got a chance to play at a demo kiosk and that pretty much alleviated my concerns about the controller.

Price tag ($249) is a lot easier to swallow, too.

I want to get the Wii so bad. Right now the only two games im even interested in are Red Steel and Zelda.

[Guns N RockMusic]

ahahah silly

WII is way better

I'm going to line up for mine this afternoon.?

I got a chance to play at a demo kiosk and that pretty much alleviated my concerns about the controller.

Price tag ($249) is a lot easier to swallow, too.

I want to get the Wii so bad. Right now the only two games im even interested in are Red Steel and Zelda.

I have a Wii guarunteed to me tomorrow with those exact same games.  I can't wait for Zelda.  I hear it has over 100 hours of gameplay.