14 DAY TRIAL // I've always wondered how people come to stand in line for several weeks at a time to buy something, in this case the PS3. Don't they have any jobs, family, school, something? Or someone just pays some homeless dude to stand in line for him? I've seen many pictures with people standing in line to buy the PS3, and believe me; some are even sleeping on the sidewalk. Isn't that a violation of some sort?
I guess it is, as the police have already booted those that were standing in line at a Best Buy store in Burbank, California. Kotaku brings us this story as they set off to investigate the mental health of those semi-homeless PS3 craving losers.
Much to their surprise (and mine), as they pulled up in the Burbank Best Buy parking lot, they realized that there was no PS3 line. They engaged in a conversation with a yellow shirted (yellow is some sort of an inferior rank at Best Buy apparently) Best Buy employee and found out that the PS3 craving losers were sent off by the police.
After a few minutes, a blue shirted (a higher rank in the Best Buy hierarchy) employee comes and explains that they were over twenty people standing in line for the PS3 and that they called the cops to take care of them. Apparently, PS3 lines come in conflict with Best Buy policy, as it's revealed on a sign posted in their window.
Until now, this Burbank branch of Best Buy is the first store that has taken measures against console campers but let's hope that it won't be the last one.