Odessa Steps, American Style

In a scene reminiscent of Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, yesterday thousands of people violent stampeded at the Richmond International Raceway, the result of which included an elderly person thrown to the pavement and even a crushed baby carriage.

But unlike the film, or the actual event it depicted, the stampede was not caused by Cossacks, but by an even stronger force.

Cupidity.

Yes, these people became crazed not over any injustice but in pursuit of cheap laptops.

Folly wonders if Spielberg will direct the film version.