Louisiana SUCKS !+$.
Me and my friends started at Esplanade mall. There were 3 entrances that they were going to open to let people in, so we chose the one that seemed most beneficial to us. At about 4:30, they started letting people in and the mall cop we had was a TOTAL *!%%*+%. He was only letting 3 at a time in every +%%**!# 2 minutes, going from the left side of the door, to the right side of the door. @*!? After about 10 minutes of doing this stupid !$@%, one guy came back and was like its no use, everyone from the other 2 doors are already in and they are mobbed up in there, so when he let 3 more come in, everyone just +%%**!# bull rushed through him. The finishline had the most pairs, and that was were everyone was. It was about 100 dudes crowding around the finishline, and an employee was trying to go in but noone would move back AT ALL. We decided to leave and hit up this other place that was suppose to get the most in Louisiana so we headed there. Prior to going here, my friend was camping for a midnight release they were going to have there, but it got stopped because too much riots happened and the cops had to taze a couple of people and a bunch of cops came. He said they relined again after they made everyone leave, but the cops came back out and told them to go home and that it won't open til 10. We decided to try our luck there, and we were able to get there by 530. People were there lining up again, about 20 people, so we think we have a pretty good chance of getting it as I called up a week ahead and FNL, FTL, and Footaction said they were getting them. Come 8 o clock, another *!%%*+% mall cop was holding everyone back, since there was no formal line, he said they would let 10 people in at a time. The footaction manager or whatever came out and said they only had certain sizes left. They were the ones that was suppose to have 170 pairs, only had +%%**!# 40 pairs left. About 4 pairs from 7.5-10. There was NO pairs above 10.5+. How the *+%$ can that happen? Then the mall cop came out and explained if you preordered, your pairs are already bagged and you can pick them up with your receipt. I was thinking @*! how the *+%$ can you preorder it? I thought they didnt let you? So as he openned the door and let the first 10 in, we all waited. The cop said that the other entrances are open, but there are officers in station to not let any of them go to any of the shoes store since we have been waiting for awhile. We wait for about 20 minutes, wondering why the *+%$ are 10 people taking so long to buy 10 pairs of shoes. The cop comes out and says they only have about 12 pairs left, and im like @*!? how the *+%$ 4 people buy +%%**!# almost 30 pairs of shoes???? He still wouldn't let us in yet, and after about 15 more minutes, he came back out and said all adult sizes are gone. How the *+%$ does that happen? There were 100 people waiting outside, and we were getting screwed. They finally let us in, and my group should have had been the first ones to line up at footaction, but somehow theres already 20-30 people waiting outside the footaction. How the hell? I thought the cop said they were guarding it? And to top that off, We went to finishline and footlocker, but apparently they sold out already. How?!?! No one came out with any finishline or footlocker bags, so they had to have sold it all before release date. I called both previously in the week, and they said they were gon open at 8 am for it. I asked the guy at footlocker when did they started selling it because we were here and didnt see anyone get anything from here, and he totally ignored my question. We were beyond pissed. We went into a drink shop to rest a little bit, seeing as how we drove an hour for no reason just to get screwed. A footaction employee was there and we asked her why did they only have 40 pairs. She said they had 170+ pairs shipped to them. So we asked her did people pay them extra to secure their pairs, and she said yeah, money talks and that they were doing it for $20 bucks 3 weeks ago. So we bascially got screwed because of greedy employee and bad management of the mall. We decided to go back to Esplanade mall, and found out finishline never openned up because people didn't want to listen, and that they will be closed all day. The kids footlocker's glass got broken in the process somehow. I was able to cop 2 on NDC, but I was trying to help my friends get theres and get my girl one, but lets just say it turned to !$@%. Yes I am very salty.