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    Duh Pepper sprayin' 4 'puter tablets?

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business...t-l-a-walmart/I'm surprised no one's talking about this here..anyway I've had tv/radio on radomly today, they keep talking about ppl kicking/pepper spraying each other, for those Tablets, Apple or what brand idk, wtf??
    Kinda sounds like the fighting over those damn dolls awhile back..
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    So these people thought they were going to assault other patrons and just walk away? Interesting.

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    I'm sure they'll catch her. Dollars to donuts, she charged her purchases.

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    Default Re: Pepper sprayin' 4 'puter tablets?

    I got a call from family still living in New York ... who told me that a major girlfight had broken out in one NY Walmart, and that a store worker had died after being trampled at another NY Walmart. This is actually pretty widespread ...


    (snip)"BLACK CRAZY FRIDAY: What is wrong with people … could some individuals possibly misunderstand more the Reason for the Season?

    People … gunshots, pepper spray, assaults, and brawls! What is wrong with you? Are you folks human or savages? What could possibly be so important? Really! Take a good look at your actions and ask yourself, do you honestly think this is the “reason for the season” and whether it was worth it.

    During the beginning of last night’s “Black Friday” experience, a shopper at a WALMART in California pepper sprayed fellow customers in what was describes as “competitive shopping”. Please, its called complete insanity and assault. The unknown woman sprayed customers to keep them away from merchandise that she was after. UNBELIEVABLE. At least 20 individuals suffered minor injuries from the insane exploits of this deranged woman. Let’s just call it “Black Pepper” Friday.

    Alejandra Seminario, 24, said she was waiting in line to grab some toys at the store around 9:55 p.m. when people the next aisle over started shouting and ripping at the plastic wrap encasing gaming consoles, which was supposed to be opened at 10 p.m.

    “People started screaming, pulling and pushing each other, and then the whole area filled up with pepper spray,” the Sylmar resident said. “I guess what triggered it was people started pulling the plastic off the pallets and then shoving and bombarding the display of games. It started with people pushing and screaming because they were getting shoved onto the boxes.”

    The pepper spray wafted through the air, Seminario said, and she breathed some in and started coughing. Her face also started itching.

    “I did not want to get involved. I was too scared. I just stayed in the toy aisle,” she said.

    But wait, the insanity continues, take a look at the following VIDEO of shoppers forgetting that they are part of the human race as they grab for $2 waffle makers.

    A 55 year-old Marston, N.C., woman was shot in the foot during a robbery attempt after Black Friday shopping at the Wal-Mart in Myrtle Beach.

    The shooting was one of several Black Friday-related criminal investigations across the country overnight. No other incidents were reported in Horry and Georgetown counties.

    The shooting in Myrtle Beach happened at 1:13 a.m. Friday in front of the Osaka Japanese Steakhouse on 794 Oak Forest Lane, according to an incident report from the Myrtle Beach Police Department.

    And yet at another WALMART … Geez, I think I am sensing a trend here. Two women were injured and a man has been charged after a fight broke out at an upstate New York Wal-Mart store that had just let Black Friday shoppers into its electronics department."(snip)

    (snip)"a temporary Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death in a rush of thousands of early morning shoppers as he and other employees attempted to unlock the doors of a Long Island, New York, store at 5 a.m., police said."(snip)


    I throw out the wider point ... if some people are willing to get this 'crazy' about the possibility of 'losing out' on a few hundred dollars worth of black friday discounts, what do you think would happen if gov't budget problems were to suddenly reduce or eliminate unemployment checks, welfare checks, social security checks etc ??? As it's fairly clear to see from Europe, mobs of people with lots of time but little money can be a very 'dangerous' group !

    IMHO these 'black friday' incidents are merely symptoms of a larger ( and festering ) problem !!!

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    Wow, agreed, Mel^
    Damn, one of the reasons I try to grocery shop during off hours, I am scared of regular crowds. Some years ago, at a large outdoor concert, a small fire broke out..just in a wastebasket, & was quickly put out. However, panic spread, entrances all over were being closed, & I was literally squeezed in a huge group of people. Had I fallen, I would very likely been trampled & killed.


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    People act very different when they're in large groups. I've seen the MOB mentality turn on someone & it's not pretty.

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    Default Re: Pepper sprayin' 4 'puter tablets?

    You could not pay me to enter a shopping facility on Black Friday. What is wrong with people?!?

    I wouldn't even want to be the recipient of any of those gifts. If you feel you need to assault all of the strangers standing between you and my potential gift, please just don't buy me anything and use your money for therapy instead.
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    Default Re: Pepper sprayin' 4 'puter tablets?

    smfh.... This is why I usually don't bother with Black Friday shopping. I did go out yesterday, but to much smaller stores that opened later. Still busy, but nobody was assaulting each other... ffs...

    The friend I went with had originally wanted to go to Best Buy at midnight, but I was like ehhhhh... She realized that everything she wanted from there could be bought online for the same price at the same time that the doors opened. She was like "Pretty soon, all the black Friday deals will be online! What's the point?" Umm, the point is shit like people shooting, pepper-spraying, and trampling others can't happen over a computer! I wish all the deals would just go online!
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    ^^^I have many ethnic clients because Americans don't have money or credit for real estate & a large group of them are Indian. That culture, negotiating & getting a deal is like sports. So, I talked to a well off older Indian man last week about Black Friday & he laughed & said I can get the same deals online & have them deliver & set up.

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    Last yr., my friend was supposed to to a gig off cl, to pass out samples of 5 hr energy, snacks, etc. for WM shoppers waiting in line for Blk Fri... Can you imagine, they're ramped up already with the sales, then hand out sugary snacks & energy drinks?


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    Only done black Friday once...football > shopping imo! And like unbeleavable said, there are good deals online.

    I read somewhere that 130 million people shop on black Friday. All things considered, it seems to go pretty smooth with the anticipation and sheer number of shoppers. It's too easy to look at isolated incidents of stupidity and conclude that everything is going to hell in a hand basket.

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    Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to just sort of....cull the population?

    Maybe form sort of agency that is responsible for evaluating everyone in our country on their contributions to our society....and if you don't pass muster, then you're banished to like....northern Alaska or somewhere..not allowed to leave....and you're sterilized. If you have kids, they are taken and put in to an orphanage or adopted out or something.

    There is an adage in management that you should get rid of the bottom 10% of your workforce on occasional basis. Maybe that would be a good idea with our country.

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    ^^^ arguably, in the days before welfare / food stamps, and while the US military draft was still in place, this used to happen on a somewhat regular basis. Today it seems to be the polar opposite, with people receiving welfare / food stamps having a higher birth rate than those who are educated / 'career oriented', and with military losses being comprised of 'best and brightest' volunteers.

    And without further inference, one can't help but notice that the retailers where 'incidents' occured have a predominance of customer base receiving welfare / food stamps, while other retailers whose upscale products and prices attract educated / 'career oriented' customers reported no 'incidents' whatsoever.

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    Default Re: Pepper sprayin' 4 'puter tablets?

    Never go to them, never had the need to go to them.. I don't see the reason why people need all these items.. At the same time.. do they wait all year long for things to go down a buck to buy?

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    ^^^ well that question, of course, leads to a larger question. Why are people who depend on food stamps / social welfare benefits lining up to buy discounted large screen TV's, IPads, video games etc. in the first place ? The statistically correct answer is that nobody in America is truly 'poor', as measured by global standards !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    ^^^ well that question, of course, leads to a larger question. Why are people who depend on food stamps / social welfare benefits lining up to buy discounted large screen TV's, IPads, video games etc. in the first place ? The statistically correct answer is that nobody in America is truly 'poor', as measured by global standards !
    Can you please stop posting your dishonest, political anti-poor messages? You have no proof that all of these people lining up to buy large screen TV's are on food stamps and receiving social welfare benefits. To say that they are is dishonest.

    This thread is about shoppers on Black Friday. Why must you try and turn it into a political discussion attacking poor people?

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    Why must you try and turn it into a political discussion attacking poor people?
    well, where this topic is concerned, most of the 'poor people' were attacking each other without any involvement by me !

    You have no proof that all of these people lining up to buy large screen TV's are on food stamps and receiving social welfare benefits.
    I never said that ALL of the black friday shoppers lined up to buy large screen TV's were food stamps and social welfare benefits recipients !!! But unquestionably some of them were !

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