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Man Arrested For Demanding Chinese Democracy
by James Barron, New York Times, posted 1 hour ago.

Lawrence Reilly from Queens, New York was arrested early Tuesday evening for disorderly conduct inside the Virgin Megastore at the Times Square section of Manhattan for reportedly demanding a copy of the new Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy."
Witnesses say Reilly was racing back and forth in the New Releases section of the store where he carelessly knocked over and threw down cds from the shelves in an attempt to find the new disc that was released by the band on Sunday, November 23.
When a worker came over to assist Reilly the situation became more volatile as Reilly was told that the disc was not available at the Virgin Megastore. Guns N' Roses have a deal with electronics store Best Buy where the album is exclusively being sold.
"He began cursing and yelling and becoming more and more agitated by the second," said John Garvey, a customer in the store at the time who first became aware of Reilly when he was bumped from behind. "I was looking through the new release section when I was suddenly slammed in the back. When I turned around to see what had happened, I noticed him (Reilly) behind me grabbing cds and moving them off the display shelves."

Other workers at the store began to notice the commotion and confronted Reilly according to store manager, Kent Debnam. "He began to yell threats and obscenities at the workers," said Debnam, reading from a report of the incident in which Reilly allegedly shouted, "I'll punch your lights out right here and right now," while allegedly shaking his fists at them.

"He kept demanding to be sold the album 'Chinese Democracy' and refused to listen to the reason as to why the album was not being sold at our location," Debnam said. When told that if he did not calm down security and the police would have to be called he reportedly said, "I don't give a (expletive) who you are. You are all little people on a power trip."

Police arrived soon after when Reilly said "Just arrest me."

According to police, Reilly was arrested at approximately 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday, and was released by 11 p.m.

Reilly was charged with a class one misdemeanor, the highest kind next to a felony. A conviction on this charge would merit either a $2,500 fine and/or six months in jail. Reilly will be arraigned in ten days and go before a judge, who will decide which it will be.

Miracle

Nov 29 2008, 11:31 AM

That is totally crazy and stupid. Sincerely, what is wrong with people nowadays. Just yesterday, something pretty serious happened with a scenario slightly similar to this.

Yesterday, during Black Friday, a worker at Wal-Mart was killed, while dozens of people, including pregnant women, were harmed.

There was a frenzy over the prizes for the television sets so they overcrowded the entrance. All of a sudden, they break down the doors and crush the employee that was there. I'm not sure if he was holding back the doors or trying to open them; all I know is that my dad found the news on the Internet and told me about it.

The huge crowd ran in savagely and crushed the 34-year-old man while trying to get to the TV sets first.

I was like, "My God. A life was lost just because they were too impatient to save twenty or thirty bucks... It's too sad..."

Sincerely, those people are dreaded savages. It's hard to notice the difference between them and wild animals, literally. They ran over him! Not only that, but many of the customers got hurt in the frenzy. There was no saving anyone.

Arkei

Nov 30 2008, 02:16 PM

Miracle

Nov 29 2008, 11:31 AM

That is totally crazy and stupid. Sincerely, what is wrong with people nowadays. Just yesterday, something pretty serious happened with a scenario slightly similar to this.

Yesterday, during Black Friday, a worker at Wal-Mart was killed, while dozens of people, including pregnant women, were harmed.

There was a frenzy over the prizes for the television sets so they overcrowded the entrance. All of a sudden, they break down the doors and crush the employee that was there. I'm not sure if he was holding back the doors or trying to open them; all I know is that my dad found the news on the Internet and told me about it.

The huge crowd ran in savagely and crushed the 34-year-old man while trying to get to the TV sets first.

I was like, "My God. A life was lost just because they were too impatient to save twenty or thirty bucks... It's too sad..."

Sincerely, those people are dreaded savages. It's hard to notice the difference between them and wild animals, literally. They ran over him! Not only that, but many of the customers got hurt in the frenzy. There was no saving anyone.

Heard about that yesterday. What's worse is that when the customers were told that they had taken a person's life and made a woman miscarry, and that they would have to leave, they didn't give a crap and kept shopping anyway.

Miracle

Nov 29 2008, 11:31 AM

That is totally crazy and stupid. Sincerely, what is wrong with people nowadays. Just yesterday, something pretty serious happened with a scenario slightly similar to this.

Yesterday, during Black Friday, a worker at Wal-Mart was killed, while dozens of people, including pregnant women, were harmed.

There was a frenzy over the prizes for the television sets so they overcrowded the entrance. All of a sudden, they break down the doors and crush the employee that was there. I'm not sure if he was holding back the doors or trying to open them; all I know is that my dad found the news on the Internet and told me about it.

The huge crowd ran in savagely and crushed the 34-year-old man while trying to get to the TV sets first.

I was like, "My God. A life was lost just because they were too impatient to save twenty or thirty bucks... It's too sad..."

Sincerely, those people are dreaded savages. It's hard to notice the difference between them and wild animals, literally. They ran over him! Not only that, but many of the customers got hurt in the frenzy. There was no saving anyone.

Well, back on topic. That guy is just another example of how incredibly irrational some people can be, specially over the stupidest, materialistic things.

SuperShadowgal

Dec 1 2008, 05:59 PM

Miracle

Nov 29 2008, 11:31 AM

That is totally crazy and stupid. Sincerely, what is wrong with people nowadays. Just yesterday, something pretty serious happened with a scenario slightly similar to this.

Yesterday, during Black Friday, a worker at Wal-Mart was killed, while dozens of people, including pregnant women, were harmed.

There was a frenzy over the prizes for the television sets so they overcrowded the entrance. All of a sudden, they break down the doors and crush the employee that was there. I'm not sure if he was holding back the doors or trying to open them; all I know is that my dad found the news on the Internet and told me about it.

The huge crowd ran in savagely and crushed the 34-year-old man while trying to get to the TV sets first.

I was like, "My God. A life was lost just because they were too impatient to save twenty or thirty bucks... It's too sad..."

Sincerely, those people are dreaded savages. It's hard to notice the difference between them and wild animals, literally. They ran over him! Not only that, but many of the customers got hurt in the frenzy. There was no saving anyone.

Well, back on topic. That guy is just another example of how incredibly irrational some people can be, specially over the stupidest, materialistic things.

It's Black Friday, people go psycho.

It's kind of like this shopping bug with rabies comes down and bites people and makes them go insane for 24 hours. And their thirst for blood will not be quenched until they get their hands on the ultimate prize: a super duper sale.

Black Friday is quite amusing to watch, but at the same time while I'm watching those shows I have to say, "Man, what some people will do for ____."