Shoppers lose their shoes and dignity just to get their hands on cheap DVDs

Despite the attempts of police and 50 private security officers to calm the rampaging mob, the crowd succeeded in breaking into an unspecified electrical shop, where they promptly started fighting with each other over a number of DVD players that were being offered at exceptionally low promotional prices. Eight people needed medical assistance as a result of the scrum, while several dozen others lost their shoes or various other items of clothing. Within a few minutes, the entire stock of cheap DVD players had disappeared, which was in marked contrast to the traffic jams outside that lasted well into the evening. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) M.K.