A Clockwork Rampage

Feverish shoppers ripped clothes off shop mannequins during a bargain store sale which ended in trouble and police being called.

About 2,000 people arrived for the opening and tempers frayed as people tried to jump the queue. The shop opened at 0500 BST on Saturday for a "beat the clock" sale, where the cost of an item is based on the time of purchase.

Product manager Will McCooke said some people had lost all sense.
"We had beautiful girls with designer handbags and designer sunglasses on their hands and knees grabbing clothes," he said.
"It was completely primeval - it was like hunter-gatherers.
Within half an hour of the store opening the windows had been ransacked by people coming in and ripping the clothes off the mannequins and just leaving the mannequins on the ground.
They were literally tearing the mannequins apart to get the clothes."
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