Black Friday stories

Did you go? Were there fights?

On a lark, we drove around last night. At 1:30 a.m., there were people camped out waiting for the doors to Best Buy and Target to open.

This morning, I hear that Wal-Mart was packed at 1 a.m. as people were taking the BF bargains directly off the pallets even before the stockers could set up displays. They then milled around, as the scanners wouldn't register the deals until 5 a.m.

 

Y'know, sometimes the third world doesn't sound so bad....

 

No shit... .

 

Paging Bubbler..........

 

This is horrifying:

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/11/28/2008-11-28_worker_dies_at_long_island_walmart_after.html

Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.

The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.

Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.

 

Oooooooookay. Time to shut this stupid-ass shit down.

 

Absolutely, Bubbs. Time to end these 4 and 5 a.m. shitshows and stop the morons from camping out all night ready to pounce.

 

Have never done it, will never do it.

 

I don't think our Boxing Day rushes get that anywhere near that bad.

 

I know it would be difficult, but I hope the state attorney looks a the in-store video and tries to identify every person who either knocked down the guy who died and the pregnant woman, or anyone who stepped on them.

I hope the families of those two people enjoy their pieces of the Wal-Mart fortune they most assuredly will get in their settlements in a few months.

 

Maybe the family of the guy who got killed will sue Wal-Mart for inciting a riot. Their sale, their riot.

 

WFW, Hondo!

This sick shit has to stop.