# I pit people who riot over a pair of sneakers. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 24, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280 "2011-12-24T14:34:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/21 "2011-12-24T21:15:07Z")
> [@Haredye](#): > > Don’t know if you are trying to be funny, smarmily ironic or just really are that ignorant and stupid. Whatever it is you come across as a [jerk.](http://www.nike.com/jumpman23/index.html#/footwear) SB often comes across as a jerk, it’s kinda his sctick. You, however, are doing a bang up job coming accross as a moron. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/22 "2011-12-24T21:29:30Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > We can’t say “Fuck you” in the Pit anymore, can we? Too bad. Why would you? Does leaving a toddler in a car on a mild winter’s day while you go to the shops present a credible danger that I’m not aware of? ---
**Author:** ![EKDS5k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@EKDS5k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EKDS5k)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/23 "2011-12-24T22:09:22Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > Why would you? Does leaving a toddler in a car on a mild winter’s day while you go to the shops present a credible danger that I’m not aware of? I hope you never have kids. Leaving a toddler pretty much anywhere unsupervised for more than like 30 seconds presents a credible danger. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/24 "2011-12-24T22:22:14Z")
“I hope they got shot on duty.” For that, **Haredye** has proven that he should be forced to listen to Justin Beiber for eternity, then tortured. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/25 "2011-12-24T22:26:36Z")
What danger is that, exactly? And remember, we’re talking about a sleeping toddler, fastened in a carseat, on a mild day. ---
**Author:** ![Haredye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@Haredye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haredye)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/26 "2011-12-24T22:30:52Z")
> [@EKDS5k](#): > > I hope you never have kids. Leaving a toddler pretty much anywhere unsupervised for more than like 30 seconds presents a credible danger. Wow. A credible danger to who? So going by your ‘logic’ (Hah!:rolleyes: ) parents must sleep in the same crib with their infants and the same bed with them until they are teenagers and bath and shower with them until they are teenagers. Right. And your moronic statement proves that you have never had kids. But unfortunately there’s still time. ---
**Author:** ![Haredye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@Haredye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haredye)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/27 "2011-12-24T22:32:45Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > What danger is that, exactly? > > And remember, we’re talking about a sleeping toddler, fastened in a carseat, on a mild day. Well they could you know poke themselves in the eye or jam their finger up their nose and get it stuck there. And of course a pack of roaming rabid wolves could break into the car and eat the toddler.:dubious::smack: ---
**Author:** ![Haredye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@Haredye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haredye)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/28 "2011-12-24T22:36:08Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > Not this particular shoe, but I once had a co-worker call me asking to work his shift because he had something important to attend to. I agreed, then saw his Facebook update a couple hours later that he’d got the shoes after standing in line for X hours. WTF? You gave up a day’s pay to get SHOES?!?! > > He doesn’t even wear them either. He’s always taking home those little desiccant packets that come in our shipments because apparently he has an entire closet just filled with pristine sneakers. WHY??? So this is some gargantuan outrage and crime against humanity, but morons standing for line for hours on end to get the newest shiny bullshit ripoff product from Apple is somehow cool, because… oh yeah because all the nerdz/hipsters/douchebags/dweebs/spazzes have given Apple their cool seal of approval. Right. Also the fact that the majority of people who do said standing in line for Jordan’s sneakers are NEGROS shows your racism and bigotry, but that’s okay. ---
**Author:** ![EKDS5k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@EKDS5k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EKDS5k)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/29 "2011-12-24T22:52:09Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > What danger is that, exactly? > > And remember, we’re talking about a sleeping toddler, fastened in a carseat, on a mild day. You can’t imagine a single thing happening? He wakes up, grabs something within reach, puts it in his mouth and chokes on it. Someone breaks into the car before realising there is a child inside. Depending on the car seat and the age of the child, it is possible for them to get into a position where they can suffocate. Given that something like 90% of car seats are installed incorrectly, he may be able to get out of the restraints and injure himself. If he got into the front seat, it’s conceivable that he might manage to work the automatic locks and then the door handle (small children are fascinated by buttons and levers). After falling out of the car he would then be in a parking lot by himself. Weather does change. Depending how long the parent was in the store, the sun could come out or it could warm up, raising the temperature inside the car. These are just a few off the top of my head, and only part of the reason while it is illegal pretty much everywhere to leave small children in cars alone. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/30 "2011-12-24T22:55:43Z")
> [@Haredye](#): > > So this is some gargantuan outrage and crime against humanity, but morons standing for line for hours on end to get the newest shiny bullshit ripoff product from Apple is somehow cool, because… oh yeah because all the nerdz/hipsters/douchebags/dweebs/spazzes have given Apple their cool seal of approval. Actually, they’re pretty stupid too. Can’t recall any iPad riots offhand, though, at least not in the United States. I confess, I never got the whole sneakers thing. Never did, never will. They’re _sneakers._ Not anti-gravity boots. Not blowjob machines. The same sweatshop urchin who makes the $180 Air Jordans also makes the $30 no-name brand, and the only functional difference is how much of your hard-earned cash goes to replenish the marketing coffers. They still get scuffed, wear out eventually, and smell just as bad when you step in dogshit. I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/31 "2011-12-24T23:27:46Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > What danger is that, exactly? > > And remember, we’re talking about a sleeping toddler, fastened in a carseat, on a mild day. Most of the danger is that the Clueless Parent will lose track of time. Back when I worked in a clothing store, we’d get a LOT of moms who would park in the fire lane and expect the clerks to watch out for meter maids, and we were also supposed to let the moms know if the toddlers woke up and needed attention. And these moms would get pissy if we explained that we were supposed to be working in the store, not acting as baby sitters. Usually they just warned us that if something happened to Pwecious Snowflake it would be our fault…and they’d then shop for several hours. It’s one thing to dash into a drug store to pick up some emergency medicine, and leave your toddler asleep, for ten minutes. It’s quite another to spend three hours shopping while the kid is in the car, and it’s not realistic to expect a toddler to stay asleep more than half an hour. It’s also not realistic to think that one can pop into a store and get out again in under an hour, when one of these sales is going on. There’s a very small but real chance that the shopper could be delayed or injured in such a fashion that s/he can’t tell anyone that there’s a toddler in a car. And there’s no way of knowing how long a toddler has been left in a car, either. For all the cops know, that kid could have been left in the car for hours before they showed up. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/32 "2011-12-24T23:39:55Z")
Tot snatchers and car thieves come to mind…I can’t think of any place where I would feel comfortable leaving young kids alone in a car. Also, if the parent(s) left the keys in the car, a curious kid can figure out how to get the car moving. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/33 "2011-12-24T23:52:02Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > What the hell is wrong with people? Who the hell pays $180 for a freakin pair of sneakers? Who the hell riots for a pair of shoes? People with no sole? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/34 "2011-12-25T00:05:58Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > People with no sole? You just had to sneak that in, didn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/35 "2011-12-25T00:45:35Z")
I was very proud of myself that I didn’t shoot anyone while shopping at Dillards on Wednesday. I try very hard to avoid the malls between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I suddenly realized that I had forgotten to buy a jacket for the girls’ school. It really sucked and I’ve put buy jacket in my outlook for next summer. I transport cats and dogs often. They are usually in crates and the big dogs are in seatbelt harnesses. I’ve been doing this for a third of my life and I think that I’ve left them in my car about 3 times while I ran into a store for just one thing. I was so worried that I doubt that I’d ever leave baby in the car. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/36 "2011-12-25T01:09:29Z")
> [@echo6160](#): > > Damn good question. I wonder when people will start calling this out as the trend that it is. A general malfeasant attitude of the masses…I want to call them “massholes”. That’s a great Rich Hall “sniglet”, **echo6160**. Not to hijack, **davidm** , but my favorite sniglet pertains to people who try to get through the 10 items line with more groceries. Those folks are called “expressholes”. Q ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/37 "2011-12-25T01:43:01Z")
> [@Haredye](#): > > Don’t know if you are trying to be funny, smarmily ironic or just really are that ignorant and stupid. Whatever it is you come across as a [jerk.](http://www.nike.com/jumpman23/index.html#/footwear) > [@Haredye](#): > > Why the fuck did the cops have to smash a cars windows simply because two kids were in the car? And the mother was arrested? Was it 110 fucking degrees in Atlanta or 50 below zero? > > Someone leaves their kid alone for a few minutes, the world is going to end.:dubious: > Talk about fucking overreaction. and of course Child Protection Services will get involved and the mother will be declared unfit and the kids will be sent off to a series of horrific foster homes and end up as drug addicted whores on the street. > > Fucking repulsive, and I’m talking about the cops who smashed the windows and arrested the mother. I hope they got shot while on duty. It sounds like **Hardon** is making desperate late effort to win arsehole poster of the year. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/38 "2011-12-25T02:56:20Z")
> [@](#): > > More than 700 pairs of Air Jordan 11 shoes have appeared on eBay, with bids reaching $500 a pair as of Friday morning. What in the name of Og. The most expensive shoes I have are winter boots. Good, leather, waterproofed, long-lasting winter boots. I paid 75 for a pair and 65 for the other (I admit they were deeply discounted on eBay). What would possess a person to pay that much for a pair of sneakers, and I can bet most of them don’t even do sports. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/39 "2011-12-25T02:59:27Z")
Probably drug/whore money. I think they have to spend it really fast to keep the feds off it. The reason for gold-plated Glocks and shit like that. Just my Humble O, though, okay? 🙂 Q ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280/40 "2011-12-25T03:20:10Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > …he should be forced to listen to Justin Beiber for eternity… It’s B **ie** ber, and leave my boyfriend out of this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-riot-over-a-pair-of-sneakers/607280.md?page=3)