# I WANT my free stuff! / Demise of society **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 15, 2009, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881 "2009-10-15T08:41:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![camarojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/1 "2009-10-15T08:41:22Z")
Funny how people think that they are constantly owed something: [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33319472/ns/us\_news-weird\_news/](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33319472/ns/us_news-weird_news/) > ‘Lottery winner’ causes riot at Ohio coat store > Woman’s promise to pay for everyone’s purchases ends up being a hoax > > COLUMBUS, Ohio - A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she’d won the lottery and would pay for everyone’s purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. > > Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said. > > Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt. Michael Deakins said. Brown walked to a cash register and loudly announced she had won the lottery and would pay for each person’s merchandise up to $500, he said. > > “Well, of course, people like to hear that,” Deakins said. “Apparently they were in line calling relatives who were not at the store and told them to come.” > > People flooded the registers as cashiers began ringing up purchase after purchase, but Brown had not yet paid the bill, Deakins said. At least 500 people filled the aisles and another 1,000 were outside trying to get in, he said. > > “She was telling people she won $1.5 million,” Deakins said. “But it ends up she didn’t win anything. She had no money to pay for anything.” > > About an hour later, Brown had the limousine driver take her to a bank to withdraw money, but she returned empty-handed, police Detective Steven Nace said. By then, store employees had called in two dozen police officers to handle the crowds. > > Shopper Candace Jordan said she told Brown she didn’t need clothes, she needed help paying her rent. > > “And she said, ‘How much is it?’” Jordan told WBNS-TV. “And she promptly wrote out a check.” > > By the time employees realized Brown didn’t have any cash to pay, police said, she already had taken off in the limo. > > That’s when angry customers, realizing they weren’t getting free coats, began throwing merchandise on the floor and grabbing clothes without paying for them, Nace said. > > “Everybody was like, ‘I still want my free stuff,’ and that started the riot,” he said. “It looks like (Hurricane) Katrina went through the store.” > > Police said they have no way of tracking down the customers who stole items and fled, but they’re reviewing surveillance video. > > When the limousine driver realized he wasn’t going to be paid the $900 Brown owed him for the day’s rental, he turned her in to police, Deakins said. > > Brown, 44, was arrested on three outstanding warrants for aggravated menacing, misuse of a 911 system and causing false alarms. She was jailed late Wednesday, but no charges had been filed against her related to the coat store chaos pending a mental health evaluation. > > Police said they didn’t know if Brown had a lawyer. No telephone number was listed under her name, and no one answered repeated phone calls at the Franklin County Jail. > > A spokeswoman for Burlington Coat Factory, which is based in Burlington, N.J., and has more than 300 stores across the country, said late Wednesday she couldn’t comment on the incident. ---
**Author:** ![dawn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dawn/32/7209_2.png) [@dawn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dawn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/2 "2009-10-15T08:48:02Z")
This is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![66impalass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/66impalass/32/7429_2.png) [@66impalass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/66impalass)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/3 "2009-10-15T08:52:22Z")
WHO THE FUCK GOES TO BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY IF THEY WIN LOTTO? ---
**Author:** ![dawn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dawn/32/7209_2.png) [@dawn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dawn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/4 "2009-10-15T08:59:04Z")
Poor people who really didn’t win the lottery? ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/5 "2009-10-15T09:00:34Z")
THAT WOMAN IS AWESOME!!! ---
**Author:** ![Justin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justin/32/7459_2.png) [@Justin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Justin)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/6 "2009-10-15T09:00:50Z")
> [@66impalass](#): > > WHO THE FUCK GOES TO BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY IF THEY WIN LOTTO? Black People. ---
**Author:** ![DokiZen6x](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dokizen6x/32/5386_2.png) [@DokiZen6x](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DokiZen6x)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 9:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/7 "2009-10-15T09:03:11Z")
Honeslty, I find this funny as hell. The fact that all those people are _that_ greedy amazes the hell out of me. ---
**Author:** ![rugsr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rugsr/32/7474_2.png) [@rugsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rugsr)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 9:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/8 "2009-10-15T09:04:18Z")
WOW, I CANT BELIEVE PEOPLE WERE PISSED AND STARTED TRASHING THE PLACE. IT WASNT THE STORES FAULT! LOL ---
**Author:** ![Eazy716](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eazy716/32/7443_2.png) [@Eazy716](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Eazy716)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/9 "2009-10-15T09:06:15Z")
> Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store :lol: It’s stories like these that make me see the potential value in forced sterilization ---
**Author:** ![Garick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8797f3/32.png) [@Garick](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Garick)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/10 "2009-10-15T09:10:14Z")
lol. awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 9:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/11 "2009-10-15T09:11:33Z")
Did she stop at KFC before hand? WTF? ---
**Author:** ![camarojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/12 "2009-10-15T09:22:07Z")
> [@Motocrossx23](#): > > Did she stop at KFC before hand? WTF? Free Chicken. I heard it on Oprah! ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/13 "2009-10-15T10:01:39Z")
I want to do this at Lifestyle Street Gear, in Obama’s bulletproof limo. ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/14 "2009-10-15T10:24:33Z")
I wonder how planned out this whole thing was by her. crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Pauly](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pauly/32/7493_2.png) [@Pauly](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pauly)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/15 "2009-10-15T10:43:28Z")
sooo much bigotry in here damn guinny polocks ---
**Author:** ![66impalass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/66impalass/32/7429_2.png) [@66impalass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/66impalass)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/16 "2009-10-15T10:57:55Z")
> [@Pauly](#): > > sooo much bigotry in here > damn guinny polocks \*Polak ---
**Author:** ![Pauly](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pauly/32/7493_2.png) [@Pauly](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pauly)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/17 "2009-10-15T11:08:40Z")
LOL sorry not being one confused me ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/18 "2009-10-15T11:17:26Z")
Kinda reminds me of Victor Mancini’s mom in the book Choke. Social disturbance, fucking love it. It’s like when you’re in line at the bank, and the guy in front of you steps forward, but you don’t, but everyone behind you kinda crunches in a little closer… people get freaked out… ---
**Author:** ![Karter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@Karter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Karter)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/19 "2009-10-15T11:42:06Z")
If I win the lotto, I’ll still grocery shop at walmart. You know they claim most lotto winners are broke within a year because they are too stupid to manage thier money. ---
**Author:** ![Penfold](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/penfold/32/5007_2.png) [@Penfold](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Penfold)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881/20 "2009-10-15T22:56:43Z")
This is actually a pretty interesting experiment in human behavior. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-want-my-free-stuff-demise-of-society/74881.md?page=2)