Drive-by shooting injures four people in PS3 line

Posted Nov 16, 2006 at 10:04AM by QJ Staff Listed in: PS3 Tags: Best Buy, Circuit City, New York

Hey, this whole lining up gig is getting serious, guys. Violent, too. We've heard of a dad lining up since Monday to secure a console for his son as promised. And then we've seen another line over at Circuit City in New York. And just now, someone hiring 50 homeless men to line up for him. And you thought you've seen it all?

At a Best Buy store, four people were shot while waiting in line, including a 27 NEWSFIRST reporter, Elizabeth Dorsett. She had been interviewing the PS3 fans when someone had opened fire on them. It was a drive-by involving BB guns and no one was seriously injured.

BBs as they might be, and not actual guns [shivers], those things still actually hurt! That kid who got creamed while lining up for Gears of War was one thing. Getting shot is quite something else entirely (even if they're just BBs). Police who are investigating the incident are on the look-out for suspects and are currently posted at the Best Buy store to protect the innocent people in line.

So, if you guys still have plans of lining up, better make sure you pack some stuff you can protect yourself with. You might have your tents, fold-out chairs, coolers, reading material, and beer. But when things get messy, don't expect to fend away the bad guys with a half-answered crossword puzzle at the back of your Reader's Digest.

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Comments

# Wow just sad — Vietone 2006-11-16 05:29

its fairly obvious this was done by an Anti-Sony person, probably some Xbox360 fanboy hoping to get a few laughs at the people waiting in line.

This is borderline, vandalizing Wikipedia is one thing, but resorting to using a BB gun is plain outrageous.

Next thing you know someone will be pulling out a real gun.

# This is pathetic... — phalanges 2006-11-16 05:53

probably poor *****heads who can't afford it. Why don't you go home and ***** your sister and take care of your son-brother you hicks, instead of hurting innocent people.

# Wow — Guest 2006-11-16 06:10

600 and you get shot, the ps3 is just not worth it.

# Lemmings — Guest 2006-11-16 06:18

Lemmings, xbox fanboys, are getting desperate now. They're going crazy with boredom.

# . — Guest 2006-11-16 06:19

Haha nice

# . — Guest 2006-11-16 07:29

i wanna know what best buy this was at.. what state.. i dont recall reading that

# The link points to a local news site. — Guest 2006-11-16 07:45

Best Buy on Nicholasville Rd in Lexington, KY.

# OMAN some ***** is gonna go down — Guest 2006-11-16 08:01

my girlfriend works at the local target and she says the store only received 8 ps3s and theres already 30 ppl waiting outside

# half of them are ebayers — Guest 2006-11-16 08:18

half of them are ebayers, the rest are retard sony fans.

Do these people have any *****ing clue? The first 10 are the most likely to get a system. After that, Up to the next 10, maybe can get a system. And after that, it must just be a retard sony fanboy's enjoyment to stand in a *****ing line and knowing they are going home with nothing.

i r wuv ps3...caus i r soni tool...

***** sakes people. The people at the front of the line are people flippin it on Ebay. Wait like every other customer that Sony's raping and wait till they get more.

# hah — Guest 2006-11-16 08:51

are you a moron?

# ? — Guest 2006-11-16 09:00

There are people out hear that really just love disturbing peace. I am tired of this *****. If I was there they would have got shot or stabbed. I dont play that *****. I wish someone would try me like that.

# poo on you — Guest 2006-11-16 09:05

you're not too bright are you?

# ? — Guest 2006-11-16 09:22

so you would pull the bb out of your eye, chase after the car, jump on the roof and pump these *****s with lead ? nice one hero

# rofl we pwnd those *****gots — Guest 2006-11-16 09:44

It was me and 3 of my friends, we had gas powered airsoft ak 47's and 2 uzis, and we shot the ***** out of those *****es, they were like "WHAT THE *****" and screaming like *****s, hell we laughed so hard like never before... it was H I L A R I O U S

therefore, ***** YOU PS3 *****GOTS, NEXT TIME WE USE REAL GUNS

# hahah — Guest 2006-11-16 13:49

AWESOME!!!!! Serves them right for being jobless, worthless, and apparantly trash. Anyone who has an entire week to sit around outside a store deserves to be in prison!

# Please shut up, squeakers. — Guest 2006-11-16 15:21

Just because you swear a lot doesn't make you cool. Grow up.

This article is funny-I bet that almost everyone clicked on it because of the title.

How were they "injured" by a BB? Minor welts?

# Velocity — Vietone 2006-11-16 16:21

Depending on the range of the gun, and where it hit the body, BB guns have been known to pierce through skin at close range.

In terms of being injured, probably a bunch of red bumps but getting hit in the head can cause major injury.

# i live here — Guest 2006-11-16 17:36

hey guys, i'm from lexington, ky, and i was going to camp there, no we are not hicks, some stupid ghetto *****s showed up and decided to act gay, gald i didn't camp out there tho, they had over 40 ppl by Wednesday at 4:00 p.m.

# Since when did Bill Gates do drive-by's? — Guest 2006-11-16 23:31

???

# ... — Guest 2006-11-16 23:33

Bill Gates is a whoose having to gun people down as a last resort to stoping PS3's sales.

# u guys are clueless — Guest 2006-11-17 00:41

these guys arent 360 fanboys, or are they ps3 fanboys, there normal criminals, who just happened to bring disorderly conduct to this part of the state.

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