Black Friday Rampage- or, Why I Stay Home And Decorate the Tree

june gloom on 29/11/2008 at 08:22

(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/business/29walmart.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1228107600&en=95e0984e8f92cc7c&ei=5087%0A) First, a Walmart employee is trampled to death.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9G0rUQkmDU) People crowd around, laugh and make jokes as someone films the cops trying to revive the poor guy. ((http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmA-2cRF124) Alternate link, as Youtube's been deleting this)

(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/28/national/main4637468.shtml) Then on the other coast two thugs shoot each other at Toys R Us.

Maybe it's just me but Black Friday has never ever been worth it. Fuck shopping. Amazon ftw.

Fafhrd on 29/11/2008 at 08:28

I'd like to imagine that the Toys R Us shooting went down like an old fashioned Western quick draw. Maybe a beach ball bounced between them right before they drew. It probably wasn't that cool, though the apparent lack of any innocent bystanders being hit implies that these guys were either right on top of each other when they opened fire, or they knew how to shoot.

Scots Taffer on 29/11/2008 at 08:29

U.S.A.

U.S.A.

U.S.A.

aguywhoplaysthief on 29/11/2008 at 08:40

Better dead than Red.

Aerothorn on 29/11/2008 at 15:18

If I was into symbolism, I would be disturbed that I turned 21 on Black Friday.

But yeah, I was horrified by the stampede...it's very difficult for me to understand, but I'm just not much of a consumer, I guess. When my parents asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I couldn't think of anything.

Pitch on 29/11/2008 at 15:44

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Queue on 29/11/2008 at 16:01

This is why I say let the Big Three fail, and fuck the banks (image going to a bank with your hand's held out for a loan because, "I'm broke and have mismanaged my money." How long would it be before you'd be laughed out of the building?). I'm ready to start over, even if it means burning this place to the ground.

Truly, this would be a great country if it weren't for all the damned Americans.

Syndy/3 on 29/11/2008 at 17:51

I fail to see a connection between crackpot consumers killing a walmart employee and your visions of a fiscal apocalypse.
Could be me.

Ghostly Apparition on 29/11/2008 at 18:13

Quote Posted by Syndy/3

I fail to see a connection between crackpot consumers killing a walmart employee and your visions of a fiscal apocalypse.
Could be me.

Perhaps the connection is, greed gone amok or lack of a moral compass for large segments of the population.

Truly I feel Americans need to step back and think about whats truly important.
A large screen tv or a store employees life. A Banks bottom line, or a Banks responsibility to their customers.

Fringe on 29/11/2008 at 18:19

I admire your bold moral stand against shoppers trampling people to death.

If only more people had your courage!