11.11.08 TWILIGHT FANS START RIOT AT HOT TOPIC
Dawson’s Crypt star Robert Pattinson’s appearance at a San Francisco Hot Topic in the Stonestown Galleria Mall* had to be cancelled yesterday after a much-larger-than-expected crowd of 3,000 annoying teenage girls and housewives began pushing and shoving, leaving one with a broken nose. Wrote one attendee:
“the things that all went WRONG: around 1am [the appearance was scheduled to begin at 6 pm -Ed.] a mother decided to make a list and number everyones hands which was not authorized at all.
around 5:45am a hot topic staff member told everyone to back away from the doors and form a line. which was coming into shape, and yet then the “list” that was made was NO GOOD, which upset everyone who did put their names down and were numbered but since it wasnt authorized it wasnt going to work.
then losing track of time here is where it went way out of control while the line was forming a purse was stolen, shoes were being thrown, a girl got cuts on her neck from people being in the mob trying to pull her back to get closer, a female got her nose smashed into a wall, and yet as a LINE was forming they werent going to move away from the doors.
the mall was staffed with 4 security guards expecting only 500 fans! hot topic did NOT have 500 shirts, they said “500 people would be allowed in” 2 braclets” per shirt, meaning they were only going to have around 250 shirts.” [First-hand account via the San Jose Mercury News]
Boy, hordes (herds?) of undersexed housewives and teenage girls sure are a lot less sexy than I was led to believe.
*More like the Jonestown Galleria Mall, am I right? Anyone? **looks around for high five**
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TWILIGHT FANS START RIOT AT HOT TOPIC
What Hot Topic employees hate more than anything is if you call up their store and ask if they’re called Hot Pockets.
If only we could get them to drink the Kool-Aid…
Poor Robert Pattinson, just wanted to get his last paycheck.
I haven’t heard of such an uprising since Old Navy put Hoodies on sale, 2 for 1.
“I’LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO BE EMO ABOUT!?!?!”
As soon as this riot ended, another riot ensued at Sbarros.
Wrote
one attendeeQuentin Tarantino:You’d think the girl who got cuts on her neck would be happy.
Damn, if I had known about this, I would have had some YouTube gold on my hands! I’d like to walk up to one of these crowds, yell “EDWARD IS A FAG!” and then run away while my friend plays Yakety Sax and records the whole thing.
If there was a Hot Topic Hot Pocket, it would be a pastry filled with peppermint-flavored fake blood.
The whole problem in the line came when girls number 6 and number 9 got into a heated argument about who was which.
If there was a Hot Topic Hot Pocket, it wouldn’t have any salt so that it won’t irritate your new tongue piercing.
If there was a Hot Topic Hot Pocket, all the fat girls in corsets would have to find much larger corsets.
If there was a Hot Topic Hot Pocket, it would spoil in the sun.
Robert Pattinson thinks Brendan Fraser is a handsome fella.
If there was a Hot Topic Hot Pocket, you couldn’t eat it; you’d have to take a bite and suck the filling out.
If there was a Hot Topic Hot Pocket, it would smell like unwashed gamers.
Shoes were being thrown? Funny, I was imagining this herd to look more like cows than horses.
If there was a Hot Topic Hot Pocket, it would come with a henna tattoo.
If there was a Hot Topic Hot Pocket, you’d have to eat it slowly so you wouldn’t swallow its eyebrow rings.
I don’t care that I’m the only one playing.
Hey, I’m all for listing and numbering Twilight fans; makes ‘em easier to round up when it comes time to send ‘em to
reeducationfat camps.If there was a Hot Topic
Hot Pocketfortune cookie, the fortune would be a vaguely-clever saying written in white on black paper.The mother in charge of the unauthorized list was quoted as saying “I’m a Schindler, it’s what we do.”
If you found a hair in your Hot Topic Hot Pocket, it would be dyed purple.
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