In my last post I predicted we’d see news stories tomorrow about fights breaking out or other incidents occurring with people waiting in line for pizza. That didn’t take long. Cleveland Online writes:
There are reports of 3 hour waits, stores not answering their phones, thousands of people in line, line jumpers, fights, arrests, traffic jams, stores running out of ingredients, angry people, more fights, police, and just overall chaos.
Update: A few other headlines that touch on the problems the promotion caused:
A slice of chaos is order of the day
LeBron Pizzas Get Police Escort
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1 Endless Simmer - A Food Blog » Blog Archive » Iced, Iced, Baby // May 15, 2008 at 7:02 am
[...] SoGood started the whole LeBron James-Papa Johns debacle, people were waiting in line in Ohio for 3 HOURS for their 23 cent pizza! That is ridiculous. By any standard of measurement, no Papa Johns pizza is [...]
2 Does Papa John's Pizza Hate the State of Ohio? | So Good // Mar 26, 2009 at 5:11 pm
[...] can read all of my follow up coverage, in chronological order HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and [...]
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