Posted on 06/27/2013 7:53:11 PM PDT by TexGrill
Tempers flared and police had to be called in Thursday as anxious Singaporeans rushed to McDonald's outlets to buy Hello Kitty plush toys being sold by the fastfood chain as a promotion.
Hundreds had begun queueing from Wednesday night to get their hands on a kitten in a skeleton outfit, depicting a character from the German fairy tale "The Singing Bone".
It was the last of a series of six limited-edition Hello Kitty characters dressed in different outfits from popular fairy tales which were being sold by McDonald's this month.
In some outlets, chaos broke out amid rampant queue jumping as supplies of the toys ran out soon after the stores opened for business on Thursday.
One video uploaded on YouTube showed police officers mediating between two customers in front of a McDonald's counter.
Another showed an irate man asking an agitated crowd "Is he Singaporean? Is he educated?", apparently in reference to someone who had gotten a queue ticket ahead of others.
Some customers took to Facebook to register their anger after they went home empty-handed, while others immediately put the toys -- sold for Sg$4.60 ($3.62) with set meals -- up for sale online at far higher prices.
Some Singaporeans are obsessed with completing the entire collection.
(Excerpt) Read more at bangkokpost.com ...
One of the ways you know you’ve been in Hong Kong too long is if you are a 35 year-old woman who sees nothing wrong with lining up for 2 hours, in the rain out side McDonald’s to get a Hello Kitty doll
Great. I’ll be in Singapore on July 9. Whoopee!
Pffft!!!! LOL!!!!
Getting screen wipes. Blew Diet Coke all over the screen...
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I hope they sell a whole bunch of Hello Kitties because then they can go out and BUY SOME CLOTHES.
I wan woon
I had a GF once from Singapore during my frosh year in college.
She had an intense liking for Hello Kitty, I kid you not that’s why this article reminded me of her. Her MySpace page had tons of Hello Kitty stuff. At least I knew what to get her for her birthday, and I didn’t have to guess LOL
My new band name.
I’ll take Miss Singapore just the way she is, thank you very much. She is a case study in figure and form. Yummy.
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