Several years ago when I lived in Richmond, VA, one of the local school systems decided to replace their Apple laptops and sell all the old ones for $50 each. The demand was so high they had to move the sale from a county surplus warehouse to the Richmond International Raceway complex (which is also the Virginia State Fairgrounds).
On the morning of the sale, there were literally *thousands* of people out there to buy several hundred $50 laptops. When they finally opened the gates, there was a stampede in which several people were injured, old women with walkers were thrown down on the ground, children were trampled, the whole bit. All this for four-year-old laptops, most of which had problems of some sort, shot batteries, broken keys, etc., and many required hundreds of dollars of additional accessories. My wife almost got caught in that stampede, but thankfully, after seeing the crowds and the two-mile traffic jam to get in, she turned around and came home.
And the makeup of the crowd was very similar to what’s in the pictures in post #3.
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I remember that story about the laptop giveaway fiasco well!
The make up of the crowd in Richmond would reflect the make up of the Richmond population ~ nothing unusual in that.