My daughter came home from college to tell me this story:
At Toys R Us, the first 25 people to purchase a Playstation 3 were feted. The had a limo drive them to a fancy dinner and they were on the news and a general big to-do was made of them. The 26th person who bought the PS3 was shot on his way to his car and had his PS3 stolen.
The closest to anything like this I’ve read in the news was of some guy getting shot while waiting on line. This story has UL written all over it and I wonder if it would be possible to pinpoint ground zero* of this one, which cannot be more than a week old.
*Ground zero would be a mall in Purchase, NY where a fellow mall worker related this story to my daughter.
It would have been the Toys R Us in White Plains, I assume. If they had had a promotion such as you describe, with limos and “a big to-do being made of them” and all, the local White Plains TV stations would know about it. Call them?
Or, of course, you could just call the Toys R Us, and at least establish whether they had even had a big promotion like that.
It’s conceivable that a deadly mugging in a parking lot might have escaped the national news, especially if the ironic “26th Playstation Buyer” aspect was not known, but I’d think the local news would have heard about it.
It seems odd too that since there are hundreds of Toys R Us stores across the country that one random one would run a promotion like this. And 25 customers seem to be a lot? You think maybe they’d take the first one, maybe two people?
And if it was a local news story why would they chose Toys R Us to proclaim “these are the first 25 sold!” when the Wal-Mart and Target and Best Buy down the street had people buying them at the same time?
I thin it’s a bogus story.
I did hear about the people waiting in line overnight who were robbed at gunpoint. (Not robbed ot their PS3s but of their cash). One guy refused to give up his cash and was shot.