Some Metro Detroiters Wait In Line Outside For A Week In Every Kind Of Weather For New Air Jordans

CBS LOCAL ^ | June 14, 2014 | Christy Strawser

[MeshugeMikey]

Some Metro Detroiters Wait In Line Outside For A Week In Every Kind Of Weather For New Air Jordans

ROYAL OAK (CBS Detroit) Metro Detroit has experienced every kind of weather since early Monday — with bouts of heat, humidity and torrents of rain. Few people got the kind of up close and personal view of the weather as the dozen or so young men settled into camp chairs outside sneaker emporium Burn Rubber in downtown Royal Oak. Some have been there since Monday, waiting for a chance to buy commemorative Air Jordan sneakers. They’ll be released Saturday. There’s no guarantee the store will get more than a few pairs, or what size will arrive.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Exactly.

[LostInBayport]

So either they took a week's vacation from work to sit like big fat fools on the street for a week to buy a pair of butt-ugly $150 sneakers, or they don't work at all. So how are they paying for these sneakers? Let me count the ways. SSDI, welfare, Bank of Momndad....aaaargh. This country is in the $#!& and sinking like a stone.

[MeshugeMikey]

Im always amazed at who has the latest iphones...etc..etc...etc..ETC!

Land Of The SLACK and The Home Of The Slave

[cripplecreek]

Hell lets just make it a national holiday because it seems to be an annual thing.

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[yoe]

[HereInTheHeartland]

Little children with nothing to do. Sad.

[Mike Darancette]

Obamacare has given many Americans the freedom to do other things and not be anchored to a job.

[MeshugeMikey]

we are living in a world I never could have imagined!!

[MeshugeMikey]

All Hail Obama Ben Snortin!!

[Huskrrrr]

[dfwgator]

If they only put that much effort into getting a job.

[BwanaNdege]

Maynard!

Long time no see. Where have you been!

[shove_it]

...Isn’t socialism wonderful?

This is a prime example of the Rat theory of stimulating the economy.

[Huskrrrr]

Maynard!

Long time no see. Where have you been!

Like still hanging out, listening to Dizzy Gillespie!

[cripplecreek]

I’ve never understood waiting in line for more than an hour for anything like that.

I did wait in line for nearly 2 hours to apply for a job. I did get the job but I ended up turning it down because I met a guy on the sidewalk who gave me his card to come apply for a job in the factory he owned. When he hired me he said that he gave me his card because I was the only one who looked like I was ready to go to work on the spot. (Work boots, jeans, jersey gloves in my back pocket and safety goggles on my head.) He paid better and I didn’t have to work with a bunch of punk ass kids.

[Chode]

what's the over/under for the first chickenhead to get shot for a pair of these things???

[Uncle Chip]

Those EBT cards buy Air Jordans too —

[envisio]

Hey, watchit there.

[wildbill]

Wish they’d wait outside an employer who’s hiring for a week if necessary.

But I guess those drug profits have to be spent somewhere in cash.