| 17 Nov 2006 04:42 pm |
Regular Rep: 0  Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 249 OFFLINE | "HARTFORD, Conn. - Two armed thugs tried to rob a line of people waiting for the new PlayStation 3 game system to go on sale in Putnam early Friday and shot one man who refused to give up his money, authorities said.
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.
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, Calif., after a crowd trampled people in a parking lot.
The attacks and robberies in Connecticut appeared to be the most violent.
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, Mass., in the chest and shoulder. Penkala was in stable condition at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., 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.
In the Manchester attack, 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 alleged attackers pushed one of colleagues 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. His name was not released.
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, Ky., 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.
A Best Buy 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."
— After all isn’t all publicity good publicity?
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| 17 Nov 2006 04:47 pm |
How could I be happy? Rep: 58  Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 31,618 ONLINE | Wow, people are F-ing crazy, all over the plasystation 3.... i knew it was evil.
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| 17 Nov 2006 04:48 pm |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 14 Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 4,166 OFFLINE | Wow some people are just pathetic and ruthless when it comes to this. We have never heard of things like this when the Xbox 360 launched and I doubt we will hear of stuff like the wii having this problem. This article just proves how corrupet sony has made some people and how pathetic some people really are. Further more it just proves how stupid these people are, they do not have the money nor patence to get one so they just rob other people? WTF is wrong with people? Have they never heard of restockment for the hoildays? My god those people are idiots just like the guy who went to yale and when he was robbed the crooks took his homework rather then the money. Those people are just idiots.
Next time SCT says sony is the best we could use this artilcle against him saying sony causes harm to people next time he trys to make the wii look bad.
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| 17 Nov 2006 07:46 pm |
Silence is Deafening Rep: 20 Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 7,080 OFFLINE | don’t blame sony blame the people...they are the ones getting violent, not the consoles...pathedic on our part though...robbing and shooting people...wats next...
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| 17 Nov 2006 07:50 pm |
The one and only OP Rep: 24 Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 9,100 OFFLINE | Blaming Sony is fucked up.
The people that commited the crime should be the ones to take the wrath.
Using a story like this to make someone or people that are innocent look bad is low down and dirty.
Don’t stoop down to that level.
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| 17 Nov 2006 07:57 pm |
Corrupted... Rep: 19 Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 8,563 | That’s a good idea.
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| 17 Nov 2006 08:45 pm |
M v C Graphics Designer Rep: 11 Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 8,023 OFFLINE | ps3 is incredibly popular man! i wuld of neva thought people wuld be willing to shoot someone to get a ps3!
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| 17 Nov 2006 08:46 pm |
M v C Graphics Designer Rep: 11Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 8,023 OFFLINE | Inferno Hero X wrote:
Wow some people are just pathetic and ruthless when it comes to this. We have never heard of things like this when the Xbox 360 launched and I doubt we will hear of stuff like the wii having this problem. This article just proves how corrupet sony has made some people and how pathetic some people really are. Further more it just proves how stupid these people are, they do not have the money nor patence to get one so they just rob other people? WTF is wrong with people? Have they never heard of restockment for the hoildays? My god those people are idiots just like the guy who went to yale and when he was robbed the crooks took his homework rather then the money. Those people are just idiots.
Next time SCT says sony is the best we could use this artilcle against him saying sony causes harm to people next time he trys to make the wii look bad.
actually theifs have used a gun to get a free 360, no shooting tho and it was a crumy little store to
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| 17 Nov 2006 08:53 pm |
Inferno Hero X is a fuckin dumbass Guest | Inferno hero x aka cock sucker x is just using that because he is sooooooooo fucking gay and dumb and he is always looking for an excuse to make sony look bad nintendo look like god what a gay ass motherfucking liar that 10 year old bitch is!
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| 17 Nov 2006 08:54 pm |
How could I be happy? Rep: 58Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 31,618 ONLINE | Hey dude calm down.
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| 17 Nov 2006 09:00 pm |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 5 Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 2,675 OFFLINE | OUCH! I heard about it on the radio... That is screwed up. But seriously... who the @#!$ is crazy enough to shoot someone over a freaking toy! Well, an expensive toy that’s in short supply... one that’s been hyped so much that you’d have to have had your head shoved up your ass for 15 years not to have heard or thought of it... Goddamnit, it was obvious that this or something like it was going to happen.
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| 17 Nov 2006 09:00 pm |
M v C Graphics Designer Rep: 11Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 8,023 OFFLINE | Inferno Hero X is a fuckin dumbass wrote:
Inferno hero x aka cock sucker x is just using that because he is sooooooooo fucking gay and dumb and he is always looking for an excuse to make sony look bad nintendo look like god what a gay ass motherfucking liar that 10 year old bitch is!
he may be a biased wii fanboy but tht dnt giv u the right to dis our fellow people
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| 17 Nov 2006 09:03 pm |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 25 Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3,442 ONLINE | Damn, waiting for a PS3 is dangerous! good thing i am getting mine much later
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| 17 Nov 2006 09:13 pm |
Metal Gear Guest | Loca-Maca wrote:
Damn, waiting for a PS3 is dangerous! good thing i am getting mine much later
Yeah. I mean, why don’t people just order it online? That way, you get a PS3 that’s factory sealed without having to wait in line for hours, or risk getting beat up and getting your console stolen.
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| 17 Nov 2006 09:16 pm |
Guardian of MvC Rep: 74 Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 44,000 ONLINE | I heard about this on the news, it’s pathetic that people are willing to go so far for a toy.
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| 17 Nov 2006 09:47 pm |
Pastafarian Rep: 46 Joined: 13 Nov 2006 Posts: 13,019 OFFLINE | Well its a toy as long as ur goin to call a dvd and a computer a toy but yeah i agree with u Cid
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| 17 Nov 2006 09:50 pm |
bonjour Rep: 2 Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 8,307 OFFLINE | thats a shame...people getting killed over a game system
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| 17 Nov 2006 09:54 pm |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 5Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 2,675 OFFLINE | When you only have 400,000 units for a population of 300,000,000 people...
that’s 1 for every 75,000 people. I don’t know about you, but I ain’t sharing with no 74,999 other people! The robberies and the rest of the crap were bound to happen..
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| 17 Nov 2006 09:56 pm |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 14Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 4,166 OFFLINE | P. Moore wrote:
Inferno Hero X is a fuckin dumbass wrote:
Inferno hero x aka cock sucker x is just using that because he is sooooooooo fucking gay and dumb and he is always looking for an excuse to make sony look bad nintendo look like god what a gay ass motherfucking liar that 10 year old bitch is!
he may be a biased wii fanboy but tht dnt giv u the right to dis our fellow people
I am a biased fanboy? P.Moore and the idiotic imposter, you guys have no clue don’t you? P.Moore you thinka system is great if crimes are commited over them? Dude that is just wrong a system is only good for what it offers and in this case the PS3 doe not offer much mainly the Xbox 360 has a lot of the same stuff for a cheaper price. Imposter I am aumsed that you are a big fan of mine and that you want my attention and that you want to make me look bad but I am just gald that in these girm times of the videogame world there is somone to keep me entertained by making themselves look like a fool actully there are two of you doing it you and P.Moore both of you are arrogent sony fans who just hate me for posting true facts and you are just pissed because you know the truth and you just do not want to admit to it. I have advice for both of you, P.Moore try to get your facts stright before you even try to argue of even post somthing about me, I am no fanboy here you can even ask people like Cid, Runematt, or SliverXXX they will tell you that I am no fanboy because I do not even care what people say about the things I like while you may care that shows that you are a fanboy and that you are just another sony fan who treats sony like it was a god. Imposter try to find a better insult using dick sucker x was funny at first but now it is just boring and shows that you cannot even make a good insult try again if you think you are actully smart.
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| 17 Nov 2006 09:59 pm |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 5Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 2,675 OFFLINE | And what does that make me? Sure, I like the PS3 more than the 360 or the Wii, but that’s because it has the games that actually interest me to any extent (Warhawk, Heavenly Sword, etc). I have a right to like it more. I wouldn’t think myself a fanboy... I’m don’t have any disrespect towards the 360 or the Wii, it’s just that the PS3 better suits my agenda.
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