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First Time, Last Time

Posted Nov 23, 2007 by TBO.com

Updated Nov 23, 2007 at 07:38 AM

WESLEY CHAPEL - Tarleton Sutherland showed up about 45 minutes before he was stopped just short of entering Best Buy to keep the store below its capacity.

It was the first time the 36-year-old Verizon project manager ever attended a post Thanksgiving, pre-dawn shopping fest.

“This is the first time I’ve done something like this. I probably won’t do it again,” he said.

Sutherland, from Wesley Chapel, was after a digital camera, not as a gift, but for himself and had no other plans for shopping later in the day.

I’m out of here, home and back in bed,” he said