Black Friday stories

that's funny

 

Outing alert: Inky is a Bush Administration DOJ lawyer!

 

Drove by Wal-Mart on my way to work around 4:45 a.m., and the ENTIRE lot of was full. Traffic was backed up a few traffic lights back and some people just parked at gas stations and other stores and walked over to get the best spot they could.

 

I went to Best Buy at 6 p.m. Not too busy.
Purchased Sex in the City Seasons 1-6 (for the future wife), Entourage Season 3 Pt I and II; 24 Season 6; Walk Hard; Baby Mama; Cloverfield Blu-Ray; Semi-Pro; Talladegha Nights; 21; and the Office Season 3.
Total - $212.

 

Don't let facts get in the way of hysteria.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27955316

 

Seems the hysteria was at the store. Per your provided link:

NEW YORK - A Wal-Mart worker was killed Friday after an "out of control" throng of shoppers eager for post-Thanksgiving bargains broke down the doors at a suburban store and knocked him to the ground, police said.

At least four other people, including a woman eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries, and the store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening.

Nassau police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the store doors at the mall about 20 miles east of Manhattan. The impatient crowd knocked the man to the ground as he opened the doors, leaving a metal portion of the frame crumpled like an accordion.

"This crowd was out of control," said Nassau police spokesman Lt. Michael Fleming. He described the scene as "utter chaos."

 

Lono, was merely commenting on the talk of a woman miscarrying.

She didn't.

 

But you've already made three snide posts on this thread that gave the impression that this kind of thing is OK, when in fact it's about as not OK as not OK gets.

 

au contraire.

I've been snide about calls for shutting down this process because of one TERRIBLE tragedy. I've been snide about people calling for anyone who dared to use a charge card in said store for two hours to be charged with a man's death. And I've been snide about falsehoods being reported as fact.

I have not, in any way, been snide about this tragedy. A 34-year-old man died for going to work. And that sucks, no matter which way you slice it. I don't forgive or excuse any of the animals who broke down the doors and/or stomped that man to death.

But the fact is, those people broke laws before they ever even got to that man. This was not a usual occurrence, and the gut reactions from the same people who get mad over gut reactions to terrorism or violence or anything else, rang hollow to me.

That's all.

 

This wasn't snide?

 

Did you skim over this part?

(and yes, that was snide. So have you been.)

 

Dear IJAG,

Sorry about my post earlier. It certainly isn't a fair way to handle the situation. I was thinking and posting off the cuff.

Smooches,

Inky