Temper, temper

I've been vaguely aware from news sites that people having been camping out in lines at stores for days in order to be among the first to get their hands on the new Sony Playstation 3 when it officially goes on sale this Friday (November 17).

A little earlier today I went shopping for a new land line phone and drove to a Best Buy store that is fairly near me to look at what they had. As I drove in, I saw there was one of these lines at this store, and there were two San Diego Police Department cars in it's parking lot, with what looked like four officers watching the line and talking with store personnel.

Seeing that police presence definitely made me wonder what was up. So, I just checked the local newspaper's site, and I see there had been fighting in the line earlier today.

All I can say is:

1. I have no interest myself in video gaming. As a result of that:
2. I can not imagine why people would wait in line for days to get their hands on gaming consoles. But:
3. I'm not entirely surprised passions among those who do want to wait in such lines would rise to the point of tempers being lost.