"Police had to step in to keep order among investors queuing to buy shares as the internet gold rush swept dramatically into Hong Kong.
A crowd of about 30,000 people formed outside one of the few banks where small investors could apply for shares in internet firm tom.com.
...
Thousands of investors pushed and shoved through queues stretching back as far as half a mile to hand in their forms at the worst hit HSBC branch in Kowloon.
Analysts have predicted that the Hong Kong firm's share sale will prove to have been a record 2,000 times over-subscribed."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/655740.stm
"Police had to step in to keep order among investors queuing to buy shares as the internet gold rush swept dramatically into Hong Kong.
A crowd of about 30,000 people formed outside one of the few banks where small investors could apply for shares in internet firm tom.com.
...
Thousands of investors pushed and shoved through queues stretching back as far as half a mile to hand in their forms at the worst hit HSBC branch in Kowloon.
Analysts have predicted that the Hong Kong firm's share sale will prove to have been a record 2,000 times over-subscribed."