Holy cow. They were beating each other bloody over Air Jordans 25 years ago!
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO!!!
Those Amish folks sure loves them some Cool Grey 11’s!
What are these people nuts? Or perhaps they are all "Rich Republicans?"
I might spend $100-125 on some good shoes, but the day I spend (and I can afford it) more than $30 bucks for a pair of tennis shoes is right after I have a glass or two of the Lib's Kool Aid!
Mobs for sneakers. Must be reliving the ‘good old days’.
its our fault. we gave them the money
... in the ghetto
Made in China for a few bucks and sold to Amish in America for half of an unemployment check.
man Mesquite has come a long way from being country town. hahaha..
Wishful thinking, I guess. I cannot understand (or empathize with) the sort of idiots who stampede for things like shoes. I avoid mob scenes whatever the deal, whatever the cost, whatever the product.
It may be cliché, but the more I know of people, the more I love my cat.
Reminds me of the old days, and Red Ball Jets. Those were the high-top canvas sneakers. We used to say “Run your fastest, jump your highest and fall your hardest”, LOL.
Few years back, I bought a sorry pair of tennis shoes at Walmart for about $9.95, had florescent green stripes all over them. Black dude asked me what they were and where he could get a pair. He was not happy when I told him.
Town East mall is little more than a gang hang out.
Shop there at your own risk.
Is there any one predominant RACE amongst these troubled consumers? If so, which?
I used to be a store manager for Footlocker in Toledo, Ohio. Back in ‘01 or ‘02 we had a extremely “sought after” Jordan sneaker come out. So, we planned on opening the store early to get the rush out of the way, however, when we arrived at the store at around 7am, there were already about 300 people crammed around our gate in what must have been an area no bigger than a hundred square feet. We only had 24 pairs, by the way. We actually never got the chance to open the store because they wouldn’t even move out of the way for us to open the gate to be able to get in. The police arrived and started threatening to pepper spray everyone if they wouldn’t move. No one moved, they simply put their shirts or hoodies over their faces and stood where they were. It was the same at every other show store that was in the mall that had these Jordans. So, the mall manager decides to close the mall down for the day since no one could open up. All hell broke lose. Before you knew it, there were trash cans going through glass store fronts, fires being started in corners and trashcans and all out brawls everywhere you looked. We had to get escorted out of the mall by the police, who did NOTHING ELSE about it except watch. My district manager called me and wanted me to go back in, despite police warnings to the contrary, to see if the store was secure. In case you don’t know, Footlocker employees where very distinctive referee outfits and stand out like a sore thumb. I had to put one of my employees jackets on to disguise myself. I get to the gate to make sure everything is ok, and suddenly I was ambushed from behind. Not by any thug but by the local media wanting the scoop. So, thanks to them, all the thugs caught on to who I was and I had to hightail it out of there as fast as I could through the back door. Needless to say, I don’t work for Footlocker anymore after I had been threatened and attacked numerous times by “customers” and, besides, I have a hard time dying for a Nike shirt or pair of shoes.