So it turns out the economy is well after all...

I had a lady describe a scene at fucking Joann fabric, ladies pushing and pulling for fabric. wtf...

this is the day that i feel disgusted with the human race.

There's only one way to deal with idiots like that who shop on Black Friday...

"THUNDERDOME! THUNDERDOME!"

you know, i like your train of thought.

THUNDERDOME!

Just throw in some $800 laptops for $259!!! and people will line up for miles to enter!

then we step in, charge $2 a head to watch the fights, and we can make a mint!

sell the broadcasting rights and retire!

The Simpsons' take on mob psychology isn't so funny anymore.

"I'd still sleep easier if I saw some trampling."

I actually love Black Friday sales and this is the first time in my entire life that I have not participated in the madness. I certainly would have done so if I had a dime to my name. But... WALMART?!? That's pretty fucking sad for there to be a mob like that at Walmart. What's worth lining up for? Electronics. And if you aren't one of the first 50 people in line there is no way in hell that you are even possibly getting that flat panel television so you might as well chill the fuck out. The store should have shut down when this happened. Close the registers, get on the loudspeaker, and tell everyone to get the fuck out. And arrest the assholes for breaking and entering and whatever charge trampling someone to death would fall under. They'd reopen after an hour or two and it wouldn't hurt their sales much. People would still clean the shelves off.

I'm also surprised they weren't prepared for something like this. I know that Best Buy, at least in their stores around Atlanta, has people line up and begins writing out tickets for the doorbuster items people are lining up for. They know damn well how many they have of each item, and it's very, very few. So if you're among the first in line, you'll be able to get whatever you came for. (You also must have no life because the first person in line often sets up camp early the day before.) Sure, it's extra work and you have to pay a couple of employees to do it, but nobody gets trampled to death and everyone has fun.

Nice to see my town get some recognition. Nobody tramples like we do.

It's just insane. I'm sorry. For the past 36 years that I have been buying people Christmas, Hannukah, or Festivus gifts, I've always bought them ahead of time. I had to drive to Pensacola today, and usually it's 30 minutes. It took me almost 2 hours.

I would have thought the advent of the Interweb would have made shopping a breeze... but I have to keep reminding myself that I'm not really in Florida, but Lower Alabama.

That's exactly what I was wondering. This is what the Fry's and BB's in my area have done and it only gets kinda crazy once people are inside. How did this Walmart let it get to the point where people were prying doors open? Is the news piece just exaggerating to add some sensationalism?

An employee was killed and a lady had a miscarriage and you think they're exaggerating? These people are animals.

Mmm, that's not what I was talking about. I was referring to the fact that they don't give much information about how it got so unruly. Were they actually prying doors open like animals or was that some sensationalism that took the place of "once the doors opened, the mob rushed in like madmen." That could still kill an employee. I was just wondering how the Walmart staff so 'concerned with safety' let it get to that point.

Yeah, they were animals, no doubt.

These people certainly did. Scarcity's a bitch.

Why did you have to go and insult animals in this thread?

dreary louse is right. Even animals don't generally behave that way unless they are starving. Now if we see this sort of behavior in the food riots that are supposedly coming in a few years, I'll still be disgusted, but at least not surprised. I hope they are able to identify some people on surveillance footage and press charges.

The political thread has now become truly nasty.

Somebody really wanted that Tickle Me Elmo.

The country deserves its imminent collapse.

Capitalism demands a bodycount.

A sad thing is, half of all the electronics sold at Walmart on "Black Friday" end up back in the store before the weekend is over. At least it's that way at my local store. Happens every year. People go nuts for the sale, get it home, and realise they can't afford it. They load it all up and bring it back.

This was an important place for them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHjwCSxaMVw

Anyone who's worked in retail knows there's only one way to handle this Black Friday shit.

Just make sure you have enough Ammo. Nothing worse then a hord of undead and no more ammo.

I forgot where I read this earlier this morning, but apparently when they were closing the store due to the manslaughter, people in line started bitching about how they had been waiting all night to get it.

Dwight Schrute was right. We need a new plague.

If you Google WALMART now, at the top it says:

Related searches: Walmart death and Walmart trampled.

That's great advertising.

Also:

A gunman opened fire at a Toys R Us store in Palm Desert, killing two and causing shoppers at the busy store to scramble for cover.

Palm Desert Councilman Bob Spiegel told The Times that based on early reports, two rival groups shopping at the store had some kind of argument and then shots were fired. Two men were killed in the exchange of gunfire, he said.

Riverside County sheriff and fire officials responded to a report of a shooting and two gunshot victims at 11:32 a.m.


"We have two dead individuals inside the store," Dennis Gutierrez of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department told the Associated Press. "The events of why the shots were fired is still ongoing."

Glenn Splain, a worker at a nearby World Gym, told the Associated Press "Some people got into a fight. ... One of the guys here thought it was over a toy, but it got louder and louder and then there were gunshots."

I worked Black Friday at Staples. It wasn't too bad, but it was Staples. We had about 8 super-cheap laptops, and the rest of the folks were there for the cheap shredders and hard-drives.

I know a guy who works at Kohl's he said it wasn't as bad as last year's. But I imagine for you electronic retailers you probably need riot gear and have the need to start wailing on customers' Chicago '68 style.