The 7 Worst Black Friday Horror Stories (And Why You Should Stay Away From Stores This Year)

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http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/7-worst-black-friday-horror-stories-and-why-you-should-stay

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1. Wal-Mart worker trampled to death.

Perhaps the most famous, and one of the most tragic, story of Black Friday violence involves the 2008 death of Jdimytai Damour, a temporary holiday worker as a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, New York.

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2. Two people shot to death in Toys R Us.

Also in 2008, two men died in a shooting at a Toys R Us in Palm Desert, California.

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3. One day, two armed robberies.

Last year’s Black Friday live blog from NBC News offers a glimpse into a wide range of horrors, among them not one but two armed robberies:

A 55-year-old shopper was shot and wounded during a robbery near a Walmart in Myrtle Beach, S.C., NBC station WMBF reported.

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4. Pepper spray galore.

Last year we heard a lot about Occupy activists getting pepper sprayed, but did you know that Black Friday shoppers were also getting sprayed with the stuff?

[Democracyinkind]

1. 4 --> This year they'll probably charge you for being sprayed.

I think black friday says alot about how truly fucked we are as a nation. I haven't seen black friday madness since leaving the states years ago - in my imagination, it is quite apocalyptic by now.

[pinboy3niner]

2. Wal-Mart prefers to call it "spritzing"

[Democracyinkind]

5. "Welcome to Walmart. How are you doing? Would you care for a spritz today?"

As a german speaker, I just had to write that.

Your post totally made my day

[pinboy3niner]

8. Lt. Pike will report for duty at Wal-Mart...

...as soon as he finishes doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

[coalition_unwilling]

14. DUZY and Thread winner! - n/t

[hobbit709]

3. I hate crowds-that alone is enough to make me avoid it like the plague.

Two weeks from now, a lot of the items that were on sale today and tomorrow will be on sale again at damn near the same low price without the maniacs camping outside the doors.

[Berlum]

4. tHe sPiriT of blAcK fRidAy (R) luRkS iN waiTinG

[union_maid]

6. The only time I was in stores on Black Friday

was when I worked in them. That was a long time ago, and while it was still called Black Friday it wasn't anything like it is now, I don't think. It was just very, very busy. Now I work in an office where we get that Friday off, but if I go out at all, it's just to the food store.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. To some degree, shopping on Black Friday is the equivalent of the dance marathons

of the Thirties. They're based on desperation, mob psychology, hype, greed, adrenalin rush, consumerism, etc.

[ileus]

9. Rules to survive BF.

Get the items you want, carry the items to help assure you have the ability to protect yourself, and come home safely. Black Friday is nothing more than a sporting event you can be part of.


I'm lucky I'll be home with the kids while the wife and her best friends hit he stores. For the first time in years we don't have any specific items on the list.

[Earth_First]

10. A sporting event?

[ileus]

13. Yeah....sporting event.

A bunch of people running around competing against one another for a goal. (stuff, deals, gifts...whatever you want to call it depending on your BF POV)

[dkhbrit]

11. Surely

If you don't have specific items on the list you don't need anything?

[ileus]

12. Naw most items on the kids lists are already here.

We don't need anything but the kids will receive a bunch of junk as is typical.

I got the last major gift (Honda CRF70F) yesterday for my son.


My wife and her friends will go out drink some starbucks hit a bunch of stores and come home with some funny stories of the silly shit they observed. I know she'll come home with 100's of bucks of misc crapola, but we have no "must have" items. That's the secret of BF don't go with an intended target but instead just snap up unexpected leftover/overlooked items.