August 16, 2005 1:46 PM PDT
Stampede, chaos mar iBook sale
To ensure you could purchase an Apple laptop that had survived four years in a classroom, would you:
urinate in your pants;
toss a chair to keep others from cutting in front of you;
throw an elderly man to the ground;
stomp on a baby's stroller;
or drive your car through a crowd?
Actually, all of the above occurred Tuesday (by different people) when the Henrico County school system in Virginia offered 1,000 slightly abused iBooks to county residents at $50 bucks each, according to this story from the Associated Press. As Fark.com would note: With picture goodness.
CNET Editor in Chief Scott Ard has been a journalist for more than 20 years and an early tech adopter for even longer. Those two passions led him to editing one of the first tech sections for a daily newspaper in the mid 1990s, and to joining CNET part-time in 1996 and full-time a few years later. 
