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College student lives in Wal-Mart for 41 hours
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| DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- For spring break, some college students set out for sun-drenched beaches or cheap European cities. Skyler Bartels headed for the local Wal-Mart. Bartels, 20, an aspiring writer and Drake University sophomore, thought he'd spend a week in a Wal-Mart as a test of endurance, using it as the premise for a magazine article. His college adviser liked the idea. "I just intuitively thought, 'This is brilliant!"' said Carol Spaulding-Kruse, an associate professor of English. "I wasn't quite sure why, but it just sounded like a really good idea." For 41 hours, Bartels wandered the aisles of a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Windsor Heights that's open 24 hours a day. He checked out shoppers, read magazines, watched movies on the DVD display and played video games. He bought meals at the in-store Subway sandwich shop, but was able to catch only brief naps in a restroom stall or on lawn chairs in the garden department. Other shoppers and employees didn't pay much attention until the end of his stay, he said, when it appeared some store greeters began to take notice -- pointing at him and whispering. A shift manager approached him and asked him if he was finding everything he needed. "He said, 'Didn't I see you over by the magazines, like, five hours ago?' I told him, 'Maybe,"' Bartels said. Tiring to the point of hallucinating, Bartels said he decided to go home before he was thrown out. He considered the project a failure. Then, The Des Moines Register, which had been contacted by Spaulding-Kruse, called to ask him about the experience. Once the story ran, TV networks began calling. He also talked with a book agent, has been contacted by New Line Cinema about a movie concept and did a radio interview with National Public Radio. Bartels told The Associated Press he has decided the stunt wasn't such a failure after all. "I'm incredibly happy with the press coverage," he said. "It would be kind of silly not to accept it with open arms." Wal-Mart spokesman Kevin Thornton said Bartels neither violated store policy nor broke the law. "We were unaware of his presence and if we were aware of it we certainly wouldn't have condoned it," Thornton said. "We're a retailer, not a hotel." |
I'd end up camping out in the toy aisle and building a massive landscape with Legos.
i think it's funny.
41 hours in wal-mart is a long time. Props.
red. iic. u. lase.
That's really, really lame.
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| Originally posted by Ygrene I'd end up camping out in the toy aisle and building a massive landscape with Legos. |
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| Originally posted by Ian Last time we went into Asda-Walmart (Asda is a store here which walmart bought out, newer stores (big ones) are called asda-walmart) I wanted to buy hungry hungry hippos, buckaroo & some stuff. The store We use is on 2 levels & has pretty much anything you'd ever need to buy. if it wasn't for the fact they use virtually no heating & its cold, i could live there. |
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| Originally posted by idoru That's really, really lame. |
41 hours is pussy shit.
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| Originally posted by trunks1022 ahhh so that's how they're so profitable! |
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| Originally posted by Ian care to elaborate (the fact they own one of the biggest stores here too, the fact it was the heating etc ?) |
What was that name of the movie where the woman had a kid in walmart or she lived in walmart and her baby grew up in there?
it was based on a true story right?
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| Originally posted by Mebot What was that name of the movie where the woman had a kid in walmart or she lived in walmart and her baby grew up in there? it was based on a true story right? |
Anybody remember that Natalie Portman movie where she's pregnant and lives in a Wal-Mart for a while?
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| Tiring to the point of hallucinating, Bartels said he decided to go home before he was thrown out. |
And to think... Wal-Mart just started as your friendly neighborhood supermarket...
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| Originally posted by fitom tiel Anybody remember that Natalie Portman movie where she's pregnant and lives in a Wal-Mart for a while? |
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| Originally posted by l�cid red. iic. u. lase. |
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| Originally posted by Mebot That's the one i'm trying to figure out. I just don't feel like IMDBing it. N. Portman was in this? |
Worst. Adviser. Ever.
There was another movie, with Jennifer Connely - "Career Opportunities". Now, that's a chick I wouldn't mind getting stuck with in any store, even Victoria's VEEERY BIG Secret or whatnot.
The scene in "Requiem for a dream" where Jennifer Connely does "ass to ass" dildo scene haunts 90% of my wet dreams.
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| Originally posted by fitom tiel Anybody remember that Natalie Portman movie where she's pregnant and lives in a Wal-Mart for a while? |
anyone remember that movie where the walmart grew up inside natalie portman?
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| Originally posted by SuspicionVandit anyone remember that movie where the walmart grew up inside natalie portman? |
now had this kid done a 41 hour acid binge in walmart...... that would be impressive....
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