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This morning I got up earlier than usual (3:30 to be exact) and was looking around on the [H]ardOCP site and I noticed that the AMD prize waggon was comming to an area not too far from here. They give away 50sets of a Gigabyte Motherboard Model #GA7-DX with an AMD Athlon XP Processor at every stop. It was to start at 6 am and when I saw it it was about 5:50 am. I knew I was about 20 minutes from there so I dropped everything and ran out the door.
When I showed up (about 6:10 am) there was a big bobtail truck emblazened with the AMD logo and lights all set up. Behind the ropes there were no less than 300 people standing around. The people in the truck would toss out a t-shirt every now and then and you would have thought they were tossing out $100 bills! These guys would almost tear eachother apart to get to them.
I saw a guy standing there holding a box that obviously contained the processor/MoBo combo and I asked him if they had given them all away already. He said that they started passing out tickets at about 10 till 6 and they stopped handing them out at about 10 after. They did a drawing and he had won one of the first ones.
I asked him if it was very crowded before 6 and he said "most of these people were here by 5". Turns out he had gotten there at 3 AM!
You know, I want a processor as much as anyone but good grief! These guys are zealots! I'll just go buy one and save the injuries I would sustain by trying to get into the mele that surrounds those events. Heaven forbid that I should actually try to snag one of those shirts. I may have lost a limb.
When I showed up (about 6:10 am) there was a big bobtail truck emblazened with the AMD logo and lights all set up. Behind the ropes there were no less than 300 people standing around. The people in the truck would toss out a t-shirt every now and then and you would have thought they were tossing out $100 bills! These guys would almost tear eachother apart to get to them.
I saw a guy standing there holding a box that obviously contained the processor/MoBo combo and I asked him if they had given them all away already. He said that they started passing out tickets at about 10 till 6 and they stopped handing them out at about 10 after. They did a drawing and he had won one of the first ones.
I asked him if it was very crowded before 6 and he said "most of these people were here by 5". Turns out he had gotten there at 3 AM!
You know, I want a processor as much as anyone but good grief! These guys are zealots! I'll just go buy one and save the injuries I would sustain by trying to get into the mele that surrounds those events. Heaven forbid that I should actually try to snag one of those shirts. I may have lost a limb.
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