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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 06:16 PM Sep 2013

Sleazeball hires homeless people to sleep out for iPhones for him. Then refuses to pay them. [View all]

Chaos ensues.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20130920/US--New.iPhones-Violence/

An overnight campout for the new iPhone turned chaotic Friday morning when two men were arrested for fighting outside an Apple Store and a man's plan to hire homeless people to wait in line for the coveted devices backfired, authorities said.

Dozens of people recruited at a downtown Los Angeles homeless shelter to buy iPhones in bulk at a Pasadena store were left unpaid, and they mobbed the man who had hired them, Pasadena police Lt. Jason Clawson said....

Dominoe Moody, 43, told the Los Angeles Times he was driven the 10 miles or so to Pasadena from Los Angeles with several vanloads of people to wait in line overnight.

Moody was promised $40 but said he wasn't paid because after handing the man an iPhone, the man was escorted away by police when people became angry with him.


America, America, God shed His grace on thee...
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