SHOE ME THE MONEY

The latest from my The World Has Gone Mad Department comes right out of the big city to the west: "Frenzy for shoes leads to three arrests at Towne East."

Seems that fans of the new Air Jordan XI Retro Concord basketball shoes started lining up outside the mall after midnight yesterday (and who doesn't like to hang around a mall all night long when it's 20 degrees outside?). When someone discovered a service door inadvertantly left open around 6:30 AM, the stampede was on. Security was called to round up all the interlopers and send them back outside, but three elusive shoppers were arrested and several people were injured "including a small child who was run over and got a bloody nose." Now, you tell me..what kind of parent drags a small child into this kind of nutball scenario?

Apparently Kansas wasn't the only state that experienced Air Jordan mania. Police in Seattle had to calm down an unruly crowd with pepper spray, folks in Atlanta broke down a door to get inside a mall, and one woman left her two toddlers in a car so she could go shopping for her Air Jordan's.

And what's even crazier: these "gotta have 'em" shoes cost $193.00!! The news media keeps saying our country is in a recession, but obviously no one is paying attention. If I was going to pay that much for a pair of basketball shoes, they'd better come with a guarantee that I'd automatically be signed to a lifetime NBA contract. Otherwise, a $10.00 pair of PF Flyers will be just fine, thank-you.