August 7, 2008
Teens Camp Out in Vain for New Sneakers
Six teens who spent three days and nights camping outside a Park Slope sneaker store were shooed away without having the opportunity to purchase the limited-edition Atomic Zoom Kobe 1 high tops they coveted. Designed by Premium Goods store owner Clarence Nathan, the sneakers were inspired by “numerous emotions mentioned in Kobe [Bryant’s] diary.” Nathan’s only made 16 pairs, and selling just 8 of them in New York City. But after three days of camping, he told the sneaker freaks to disperse. “If I allowed these boys to buy them, people would have been lining up for months, and I can’t have that,” he tells Brooklyn Paper. A mother of one of the boys sees things differently: “It’s an injustice.”
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Poor kids, don't they have better things to do?
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“numerous emotions mentioned in Kobe [Bryant’s] diary.”
So the sneaker is basically the personification of Kobe being an asshole, a miserable failure, and choking during the finals. Amazing
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BAD INVESTIMENT
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Shoes. OMG!
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@edEx
Surprisingly not so bad. From what I've seen these future fashionistas do is resell them for hundreds or thousand more.
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Ha! Shooed away!
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The injustice is the price tag for these hideous shoes...
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Why would the mother claim it to be an injustice?
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what do they go for on ebay?
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Top five emotions listed in Kobe Bryant's diary:
Horny.
Angry.
Me!
Horny.
Jealous and horny.
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Ha! Nice one zpk.
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an injustice? they're fucking sneakers. get a grip.
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How do you know you're a complete tool?
You wait in line for sneakers.
Unless of course, you have no shoes, and you're waiting for a pair.
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it blows my mind why do people camp out for the ugliests of sneakers.
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@ Spear_Chucker[8] Why would the mother claim it to be an injustice?
Why all the better to set up for a lawsuit of course. The store, the designer, hell, even Kobe himself will all be made to pay for the injustice done to her "baby" and his friends.
Give me a break!
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Might be time to reinstate the draft.
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"Three days into the kids’ vigil, Nathan told them to scram, saying that he now intended to sell the sneakers by raffle — and entrants needed to buy something at the store before they could enter"
So the proprieter is running a lottery, the prize being the opportunity to buy $440. shoes, Nikes which he has decorated. What a world! I've passed that "Premium Goods" place. Nothing appealing to me in there.
Then again, if I want decorated shoes I'll get some sneakers at Payless, then to Staples and get some markers, glue, glitter. . . This is starting to sound like fun.
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The injustice is that little bastard buying sneakers with my tax dollars. Get a job ya hoodlum.
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Where are the Chinese knock off guys when you need them?
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This is silly. It's not like these are iPhones.
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Buying rare sneakers is the gayest sport in the world. You basically stand in line for hours to pay the most for the ugliest sneakers in the world just to impress other sneaker nerds, none of whom, are hot women. Gay.
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Someone gonna get jipped by homies in Escalades wit guns.
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That doesn't make any sense, Pete. Gypped refers to Gypsies who roll in RVs and beat up old Monte Carlos, not Escalades.
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It was only six kids. In any major city, how hard is it to find six completely disengaged self-absorbed idiots? The worst of it is the greedy proprietor out to exploit this any way he can. I hope there's bad electrical in his shop and the whole selection of idiotic garbage goes up in flames. Would serve that asshole right.
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These children (& their mother) are what's wrong with this city. Or at least this thread. Why do people wait in line for this crap? They're ugly shoes. Now, maybe if they'd been the Back to the Future II Nike Hyperdunks, I could understand...understand but still be irritated I couldn't get a pair myself.