People injured in cheap iBook sale
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 16, 2005 at 3:51pm
A rush to purchase US$50 used iBooks turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over, according to a Fox News report. The story adds that one woman went so far to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.
An estimated 5,500 people turned out at the Richmond (Virginia) International Raceway in hopes of getting their hands on one of the four-year-old iBooks, Fox News reports. The Henrico County (search) school system was selling 1,000 of the computers to county residents.
In April the school system decided to ditch Apple and go with Dell computers. The Henrico County School Board voted on June 16 to distribute Dells to every high school student and teacher next year. Middle school students and teachers and elementary school teachers will continue using iBooks, while high school students and teachers will switch to Dell.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
