Um… we’re not sure what to think of this…
So a businessman planning to get his profit-minded hands on dozens of new iPhones allegedly thought it was a brilliant idea to recruit about 100 homeless people from Skid Row in Los Angeles to wait in line overnight at the Pasadena Apple Store. But the strangely many were left unpaid and stranded after his plan was exposed, local media reported Friday.
USA Today reports:
The unidentified reseller had offered $40 to each hired hand who bought an iPhone for him, which he bragged about to others in the line of about 200 people, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported. When they learned of the scheme, store personnel stopped selling the latest iPhone models to the homeless stand-ins.
Then sh*t got a little cray.
An agitated crowd surrounded the man when he announced he wouldn’t pay anyone who had not bought a phone, and police officers had to escort him away — several new models in hand — for his protection about 9 a.m., Lt. Jason Clawson said.
43-year-old Dominoe Moody, one of several homeless :
“It didn’t go right. I stood out here all night,”
Bobby’s boss told reporters others were line-standing for him at other Apple Stores across in Southern California:
“Nothing illegal about that,”
SMH!
SOURCE: USA PHOTO CREDIT: Getty
