I know it’s not an option for everyone, given how little expendable income folks have these days, but, if you can’t join the campaign to buy nothing this Black Friday, maybe you could at least try your best not to trample anyone to death.
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I PROMISE NOTHING!
Sometimes tramplings can be funny. Case in point, check out the lady with the wig in this news video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeSgBL7gpAk
I would stomp a child to death for 50% off on a copy of Fall Out LasVegas.
I inadvertently knocked down a few obstacles on my Segway today outside of Best Buy (holiday tip: iPads make great stocking stuffers), but am proud to say I did not technically “trample” anyone “to death.” Not only that, I didn’t actually buy anything today; in solidarity, I deferred payment via credit card rather than using cash so I won’t complete the transaction for another month.
You can thank me in person.
Call it a case of consumerism bringing out the worst in people.
Three women in West Palm Beach, Florida, say $1,000 worth of Best Buy merchandise was stolen from their car Friday morning within minutes of being purchased, according to CNN affiliate WPBF.
The women were the first people at Best Buy after camping out since Wednesday night.
After they made their purchases, they put them in the car and went to JC Penney. A few minutes later, they returned, and the goods were gone.
“I mean, we’ve been camping since Wednesday,” a tearful Shereece Francis told WPBF. “Just cruel, just wicked.”
The women weren’t the only ones to experience Black Friday car troubles.
At least 10 shoppers in St. Louis, Missouri, left Best Buy to find that their cars had been towed, CNN affiliate KSDK reports.
The customers had parked in a lot adjacent to Best Buy belonging to a T-Mobile store. They told KSDK there were no signs saying parking was for T-Mobile customers only, just a small, upside down sign from “Bulldog Towing” warning about abandoned or illegally parked cars.
Now, those customers are out $335.
“We’re going to have to return our gifts that we bought on Black Friday just to get the car from tow,” said Lavorn Ford, who had purchased a Playstation 3 for his son. “It’s frustrating because you get up early in the morning to get your kids stuff for Christmas and then this stuff happens. ”
A T-Mobile store manager said the store needed the parking lot when it opened at 7 a.m.
“Our lot was full by 4 and then again by 6, so we would have opened up our business and not had any spots,” store manager Brian Fisher said.
It seems that some people will go to extreme lengths in the name of their children. A Wisconsin woman who cut in front of a long line of Black Friday shoppers was arrested, police say, after she allegedly threatened to shoot those she moved ahead of.
“I just wanted to get my daughter the toy that she wanted for Christmas, which probably won’t be there when I go today,” Lanessa L. Lattimore, 21, told CNN.
Lattimore attempted to cut in front of a line of “several hundred shoppers” at a Toys R Us store in Madison, Wisconsin, on Thursday, according to a police report. Lattimore admitted there had been a confrontation in the line but disputed the details.
“Everybody was cutting in line. But there was one girl who was threatening me, so I told her that I’d shoot her,” Lattimore told CNN. “I’m not a violent person, but police charged me with disorderly conduct.”
Several eager shoppers were trampled Friday morning as they surged through Target store doors in North Buffalo, New York.
CNN affiliate WIVB had a camera inside the Target and captured the drama. People at the front of the line were pushed to the floor when doors opened. The commotion and screams drew additional store staff to sort the crowd out.
“It went from controlled to a mob in less than five minutes,” shopper Rich Mathewson told WIVB. “And then it just got nasty.”
Several people had cut into the line, angering the crowd, Mathewson said.
Unruly Wal-Mart shoppers in Sacramento, California, prompted an evacuation of the store, affiliate KTXL reported.
Just after the store opened its doors at 5 a.m., customers became pushy and unruly.
Sacramento Sheriff’s officers were called in to help clear the store and everyone was ordered to leave their carts in the store and exit. Once everyone outside calmed down, shoppers were allowed back in to finish their shopping, according to KTXL.
I went with the intention of trampling someone to death, but I didn’t have the opportunity. I must have picked the wrong store, as I was the only person outside of Radio Shack. I did, however, get to step on the manager’s foot really, really hard.