Lottery tickets. The store probably had a dozen dolls to sell and a hundred people waiting to trample other shoppers to death to get hold of one.
So, the store hands out a numbered ball to every person who wants a chance to buy a doll. If the store had 10 dolls to sell, they would then call out 10 numbers and the "winning" ball holders comes forth to pay double retail for the doll.
Despite the fact that the plan should have kept the process orderly, the buyers still stampeded and the employee, fearing for his safety, threw the balls towards the crowd to get them away from him, thus setting up a stampede anyway.
Good plan, bad implementation.
Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is very bad.
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