GTA IV shopping adventure this morning


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OK, so I get a call at about 7 this morning from a friend that missed the midnight launch of GTA 4, and asked if I could go pick it up for him, since his wife has a PS3, I figureed it wouldnt be too much of a challenge to find so early in the morning.

So I go over to his house first and collect the $65 needed to buy the game, and proiceed over to walmart, I arrive and work my way back to electronics, and if anyone has shopped at walmart before knows that you have to hunt down a sales rep to get a game out of the cabinet.

Anyways, as I get there, I spy the sales rep right off, however there was another guy trying to hunt him down as well, but I got the first words in "GTA 4 PS3 please" I said to the clerk, He says "You are in luck, we got 1 copy left" I thought right on.

The other guy who was looking for the rep came up to me with a bad attitude and said "What the hell man, I was here first?", I told him "Sorry man, I found the sales guy first, and first come first serve." He was not pleased that I had got the last copy,. I pay and quickly make my way out of the store.

As I get outside, it dawned on me that the guy who lost was following me, so I haul ass to my car, he starts running after me, but I got to my car first and got it started and took off, the guy kicks my car putting a rather good size dent in the rear corner panel.

As Im exiting the parking lot, I notice that he is hot on my ass in his car, luckily my car is smaller and a little bit more agile than his minivan, so I take off down the back road, and make a sharp right at the nearby gas station, and hide behind toys r' us that was nearby.

After waiting for about 2 minutes, I slowly creep my car out of my hiding place, I notice that he is no where to be found, so I continue back to my friends house, and deliver the game, made it there without sight or incident.

I tell my friend the story, and he says " Dude, you almost got GTA'd" I chuckled a bit, and watched the opening movie before returning home to tell my wife the tale.

Lesson of the story.... Watch out for ###### out there when getting your copy of GTA 4 today, if you get the last copy, you might experience GTA in real life

Thats crazy, i had a similar experience with the Wii but i was the one that got beaten by the other guy who got to the sales rep. first, he let me had it tho, he was just buying a second one for eBay and it was the last Wii they had....

So not everyone is an *******...

And i wonder, what was that guy trying to do to you, you think he might have beaten you to steal GTA 4 from you??? jeez....

lmao! great story! I would have beat him down with a purple dildo in the parking lot... or just get his license plate and called the cops.

I knew someone was going to pull out that weapon sooner or later :p .

Scirwode

Haha! That's great! :D

I would definitely have confronted the guy, have him take a swing at me and then sue. Yeap, that's the American way all right! :yes:

BTW, I hate Wal-Mart. Not because of their arguably "unethical" business practices, but because their customer service is utter crap!

That's why I keep a hammer in my trunk and not just any hammer it's one of those heavy duty roofing hammer. It also keeps those pesky bums away from you, and just an advice next time DO NOT RUN.

The only way you will not get hurt is to confront him, otherwise who knows he might follow you to your home and kill you while you're sleeping (I bet you will have nightmares now :p ).

That's why I keep a hammer in my trunk and not just any hammer it's one of those heavy duty roofing hammer. It also keeps those pesky bums away from you, and just an advice next time DO NOT RUN.

The only way you will not get hurt is to confront him, otherwise who knows he might follow you to your home and kill you while you're sleeping (I bet you will have nightmares now :p ).

lol good way to make him feel better.

Some people are just slightly weird like this, lucky he didn't GTA your arse.

Don't understand the big rush everyone is having. Walked to the shopping centre today, first shop was sold out, walked into another and they had 16 copies. Got to sleep in this morning and still got the game, ftw :)

Yeah, really.

I stopped at my Best Buy at noon today, and they had a few dozen copies just sitting out on a table in the middle of the games/movies/music section.

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