PlayStation 3 shopper shot outside Wal-Mart (I am astonished)
 

after all is said and done, with less units for launch (200k tops) higher price ($600) and more rabid fanbase then X-Box, i expect no less then 6 murders, countless armed robberies and assaults, and about 25% recall rate for something wrong that will pop up in the blu-ray drive

PUTNAM, 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 a man who refused to give up his money, authorities said.
In other states, customers pushed and shoved their way to the shelves to get at the limited supply, and in Kentucky, four people were grazed by BBs fired from a passing vehicle as they waited for a Best Buy store to open.
The two gunman in Putnam, Connecticut, confronted 15 to 20 people standing outside a Wal-Mart store shortly after 3 a.m. and demanded money, said State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance.
"One of the patrons resisted. That patron was shot," Vance said.
He said the two gunmen fled after shooting a 21-year-old Massachusetts man in the chest and shoulder. The victim was taken to University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. There was no immediate word on his condition.
Vance said police were searching for the suspects, both believed to be in their teens. He said one was wearing a ski mask and brandishing a handgun, and the other had what appeared to be a shotgun.
Aside from the police tape, things had returned to normal by midmorning at the Wal-Mart store in rural Putnam, a town of about 9,000 residents near the Massachusetts and Rhode Island state lines.
Short supplies of the PS3 and strong demand led to lines of buyers, some waiting for days, outside stores across the country.
In Palmdale, California, authorities shut down a Super Wal-Mart after some shoppers got rowdy late Wednesday. In West Bend, Wisconsin, a 19-year-old man was injured when he ran into a pole racing with 50 others for one of 10 spots outside a Wal-Mart.
In Lexington, Kentucky, someone fired BB pellets from a passing vehicle at people waiting outside a Best Buy store, according to television station WKYT, whose own reporter said she was among four people grazed while she interviewed buyers in line.
A Best Buy in Boston, Massachusetts, 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.

shit... fucking fucktards....

they should ban ps3's i hate them

COPMUTER GAMES!!!!!

I'm slightly disappointed to see that this shooting was actually just a mugging for cash, not a fight to the death over the last console in the shop. But how long 'til they release a game where you have to kick shit out of, or, failing that, kill, other shoppers in order to get into a shop acquire your video game console? Then the "life imitates video games" brigade will really have something to get worked up about.

My friend was insulting people in line calling them losers and stuff and none of them would go after him because they didn't want to lose there spot.

We were actually gonna go back last night and mess with them more, like throw bags of shit at them and see if the smell is enough to get them to leave the line. Just test peoples limits (have you seen The Magic Christian?) I joked and suggested picking their pockets while they were asleep. Now I really wish I didn't make that joke.

But seriously, what fucking moron resists 2 robbers with guns? Your life is more important than your money with which to buy a PS3 the next day. And the robbers robbed 15 people, I'm sure there will be a pretty big investigation, they'll get caught anyways.

haha REP!

ps3 sucks
WoW rules.

kill them all.

damn, well, at least we, kentucky, only had BB gun shooters.

WoW = Heroin.

That's why I wait till two years after to buy the game. It is cheaper and has more games.

Heroin rules!

Maybe they should make a PS3 game about getting a PS3 game! you have to deal with bb gun shooters, muggers. and just because you make it the the last level (walmart) doesn't mean you win, cause you still have to deal with shitty customer service.

what exactly is wow?

Wow- Working On Walmart?

World of warcraft.

Butters go buy world of warcraft before we all murder you.
Does it sound familiar yet?

Me and a friend were actually planning on driving by our local Kmart and peggeing everyone with waterballoons waiting outside last night. But for some reason we decided against it. Wouldn't have even thought about guns, but whatever works.

don't cast your intimidating shout on me, i'll summon goddamn scorpions on you

ps is waaay overrated and pricey.

psp is usefull though but i dont see myself buying it ever

I was bored and checked eBay for PS3's....and holy shit!!! Alot of them are for between 1-3 grand! That's insane. Now I wish I had waited in line for a couple days so I could turn and sell them for a nice profit, damn.

this is hilarious

and i thought that walmarts were guarded by laser-shooting robots...

I'm surprised that shootings outside of Wal-Mart don't happen more often.

that ain't nothing, on CNN, they said the highest bid of the day today topped at $9,000, 15 times the cost of one at a store

i guess the extra $8,400 is the security of not having to be stampeded at a hyper-mart

can't these fuckers wait a year or two when they come out and it is cheaper, what idiots they get what they deserve.

Some of these 30 thirty year old men need to get laid, or at least jerk off a bit more, so they don't have such an itchy trigger finger.

I hear that in the gaming community, the sooner you have the latest console, the bigger your penis gets.

if i wasnt in between jobs i would SO go over to wal-mart and buy one of these just to resell it.

My dad has his PS3. He is thinking about selling it on ebay. He really doesn't want to do it because he really likes his games, but on the other hand he'll feel stupid and bad if he doesn't, because he can get the money to buy another one later and a nice profit to give us all some nice Christmas presents. He'll be happy and unhappy either way.

I'm suprised if that is a real one. There are a lot of spammers that just bid crazy amounts just to ruin it for everyone. I saw one go for $15,000, my dad says he saw one that was $30,000.

the world is full of stupid fucks. your dad should bleed them-- it's the law of nature that stupid fucks get eaten.

Yeah. Looking at the pure business side of it, he should sell it. He just likes his games, and he doesn't buy much else for himself, so he doesn't want to sell it. He'll get another eventually, if he does sell it. I told him to remember that there will always be the Wii to satisfy him while waiting.

perhaps.... just perhaps they should ban GUNS and not games. when you think these things through rationally they start to make sense. how many playstation related deaths have been recorded over the last 12 months in the USA? how many gun related deaths have occured in the last 12 months in the USA?

Yeah, Wii will kick PS3's ass anyways if that controller works out.

My dad played it at the store when he got the PS3. He played some driving game and the first lap was hard to figure out how to work it, but the second lap was really easy. One guy said he got a little tired playing Red Steel.

Banning guns would completely take the power out of the people's hands.

Sell sell sell!!!! The launch games look pretty weak anyway.

They always do, no matter what the console.

Well the wii has Zelda as a launch game so that isn't necessarily true.

Zelda and Red Steel.

He might not sell it. Right now the Ebay prices aren't over $2000 dollars anymore. But it is early in the day, so I imagine that they will go up later in the day. He is still on the fence.

actually, one of the wal-marts in my city is well known for having cops get shot and killed outside of it.

i don't know why folks are wasing cash on silly sony stuff anyways.

i'm buying a wii and that's gonna be that...i might buy two and sell the other on ebay.