LA store owners stymied by glued locks on year's busiest shopping day

[funkybutt]

Lafayette, LA

The busiest shopping day of the year turned out to be a sticky affair.Vandals apparently glued the locks on dozens of Lafayette's biggest retailers, forcing hundreds of shoppers to wait in long lines as "Black Friday" slipped away and frantic store managers summoned locksmiths, witnesses said. Lines formed in front of Barnes & Noble, Old Navy and smaller stores in and around the Mall of Acadiana while the locksmiths drilled the doors and removed the locks, said Kevin Vizena, head locksmith for Pop-A-Lock in Lafayette.

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1101494047289880.xml&storylist=louisiana

[AllyCat]

1. Not in LA...didn't do it...

...but laughing my a** off right now. This is just hilarious.

[tk2kewl]

2. LOL!

never mind the store owners... the moran shoppers must have been up in arms. I'm surprised no one was trampled in a riot.

[AllyCat]

9. Actually, someone was trampled at Macy's today

but that wasn't in LA.

[tk2kewl]

14. not surprising...

i hope they tramplers got the deals they wanted.

the shopper/bargain thing is sort of a microcosm of the whole oil/country thing.

[alittlelark]

26. Good analogy!

;)

[scarletwoman]

3. Nice bit of monkey-wrenching, that...

:evilgrin:

sw

[otohara]

5. what is the spinning

thingy in your sig line?

[riverwalker]

10. 'tis a prayer wheel

inscribed with "Om mani padme hum".

[otohara]

43. Do You Know WHat

"Om mani padme hum". means?

[AllyCat]

11. Looks like a tibetan prayer wheel...

...the small ones people keep in their houses or while traveling. I cannot read the script though.

[scarletwoman]

12. A Tibetan Buddhist prayer wheel. (n/t)

[thebaghwan]

49. Hayduke Lives!!

n/t

[scarletwoman]

50. Heh. Was hoping someone would get the reference...

;-)

sw

[otohara]

4. Well, It Is NO Shopping Day

brilliant way to postpone just a tad this ridiculous notion that you must go shopping the day after Thanksgiving.

[AuntiBush]

6. Go Figure!

Barnes & Noble... not doesn't that prove there are signs of intelligent life popping-up all over the south!

[Winamericaback]

8. Barned and Noble

Contributes 98 % of their campaign contributions to Democrats ...

Just so all of you would know.

[intheflow]

15. Yes, but still partly responsible for putting inde bookstores outta biz

so part of the problem overall.

And no one can accuse the Dems of not being in league with big business at some level or another.

Still, if B&N is going to give their $$$ to some one, I'd rather it be the dems and not the chimpy party.

[Cobalt Violet]

7. damn! Why didn't I think of that.

:evilgrin:

[dkofos]

13. To bad wally-world never locks their doors.

I could have some fun with that idea.

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[frylock]

36. to bad wally-world never locks their doors..

unless they're trying to hold their illegal immigrant cleaning staff captive after their 60th straight day of work.

[gaia_gardener]

55. Ours locks one set of doors

after 10:00 (I think). So you could cause some backup and angst by gluing that set. Of course, you'd have to be quick because they have guards watching the doors.

[donheld]

16. Funniest thing i've seen in a long time

sorry for stealing the hippo, but i thought this called for it!

[Ian David]

18. Drilled the locks? For glue?

Someone put glue in the locks, so they used a DRILL to open them?

Oh, come on.

Nail polish remover = no more glue.

Now, if one were to put some welding flux or something in a lock and then hit it with a pocket blowtorch, well THEN you might need to drill the lock.

It looks like the Adbusters-crowd decided to get physical.

[gaia_gardener]

56. I wonder if JB Weld would work? nt

[gemini62167]

17. ROFLOL!!! BRILLIANT!!!

This actually tops the no shopping day campaign! I love it! I saw a photo of a huuuuuuuuuge crowd of people panting like drug addicted fiends waiting to get into a Walfarts today. It looked ridiculously funny - a sea of humanity waving their charge cards waiting for their oppurtunity to supplicate themselves in sacrifice to their Gods; Visa, Master card, and Discovery!

[Ian David]

20. Barnes & Noble

If one were to glue stores closed, I would hope that book stores would not be on the list of stores targeted.

If there's one thing this country needs, it's for people to read more books-- instead of that one stupid book most of them read over and over.

[donheld]

40. Welcome to DU Gemini and IanDB

:hi:

<<If there's one thing this country needs, it's for people to read more books-- instead of that one stupid book most of them read over and over.>>

SO SO SO TRUE

[Dulcinea]

21. Idiots.

I'll never understand the morans who camp outside Wallyworld at 5 AM, running each other down to be the first to buy cheap low-quality crap. People are stupid.

[lolly]

37. Hey, it's important

To be the first one to buy one of those enormous tins of stale caramel popcorn for Christmas!

[funkybutt]

24. I, too, was disturbed by that image this morning

my first thought: do people just loose their mind on this day in increasing numbers every year?

are people really that easily manipulated? the media says that we shop today..so we do?

Fuck that!

[They_LIHOP]

19. Watch, they'll try to make this into some big political statement...

This'll be all over the news, 'pundits' (as though there ARE 'experts' on this sort of thing) blabbing about how this must be a political statement, some 'anti-business' group's pseudo-anarchist action, blah blah blah. It'll get blamed on us liberals somehow, you watch.

Then, a month from now the dude who did it gets caught. It will turn out he owned a locksmith shop that was about to go out of business.

But that WON'T be all over the news...

[Ian David]

23. Let the media hype it

The more the media hypes it, the more copycats there will be.

There's no more potent resource than the untapped potential of bored adolescents with inadequate parental supervision.

[Nostradammit]

51. Ain't that the truth !!!

All that energy, just needing a healthy outlet...

[VolcanoJen]

22. Oh, I hate to endorse/applaud petty crime...

... so can I just laugh?

Pretty funny. :D

[CBGLuthier]

25. Steal This Book

That is straight out of Abby Hoffman's Steal This Book.


Sounded like a good idea when I was a child.

Now that I am a business owner I see things just a little bit differently. Like how much it would cost me to get the lock fixed and how much of a pain it would be and how much glorious fun it would be to go out of business and let my children starve.

[They_LIHOP]

27. Oh, no...

Now it's gonna get blamed on 'the liberals' for SURE.

Oh, well...

Hope it really was a political statement, if we're gonna get the blame anyways..

[CBGLuthier]

29. it was probably just

a bunch of juveniles without any sense.

Hoffman's origional idea was to use it against big corporations, like the phone company and the utility companies.

[Carolab]

42. A foolish statemen--since when did "liberals" corner the market on pranks?

How about all of those REPIG kids who took our signs and keyed our cars?

AND STOLE OUR VOTES?????

HUH? What about them?

[splat]

28. steal this book

Now that I am a business owner I see things just a little bit differently. Like how much it would cost me to get the lock fixed and how much of a pain it would be and how much glorious fun it would be to go out of business and let my children starve.

sounds like you joined the system you once despised.

would you consider dropping out, that maybe you lost your way?

(not slamming you, just wondering about reconnecting to the ideals you once had)

[CBGLuthier]

30. I still have my ideals thank you very much

But having ideals doesn't mean I don't have to support a family and make a living.

Exactly what system do you think I joined. I don't sell guns. I am not even a corporation.

But I guess I could just walk away from everything and try to be a fucking hippy again. Screw up three kids and a woman who deserves better.

Or better yet, go to work for someone else and just become a wage slave.

Wasn't all this shit hashed out well enough in the Big Chill. :-)

[Ian David]

44. Just put a John Kerry sticker in your window

Just put a Kerry for President sticker in your store window.

Maybe throw-in a "Free Tibet" and sell "Fair Exchange Coffee," and the little liberal gremlins will pass over your store.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

47. What the ................ ?

What does this post mean?

<looking around>

What year is it?

[Zhade]

33. A movie directed by the talented Mr. Greenwald, too!

I hardly think your kids would starve over a protest action that lasted a few hours, even on Black Friday.

If this kind of thing happened to you personally daily, I might have some sympathy, but I'm guessing you were unaffected by this. I wouldn't read too much into the action if I were you.

[tk2kewl]

35. thing is these weren't independently owned businesses

these were big-box super stores that put business owners like you out of business

[gaia_gardener]

57. That was my thought as well.

As long as it was "Big Box Stores", well, it's still not right, but it's more excusable.

[NurseLefty]

39. I hear you - the "little guy" shouldn't get hit.

But what about the mega chains?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

48. Why should anyone get "hit"?

This kind of nonsense is worthless, counterproductive, and nothing but ego-enhancement for the developmentally disabled dickwads who pull this juvenile sort of crap.

Go learn about economic boycotts. That's a start. Then confine your acting out to things in your personal life that don't affect the livelihoods of others.

As for getting down on the poster who sees things differently now that he's a small business owner himself, with a family to take care of, I should think you'd be more respectful of people who share the same political sensibilities that we all do but who have other responsibilities than you.

A little respect goes a long way. Ask Aretha.

[Zorra]

31. Obviously the work of the infamous Chimpwrench Gang. n/t

[Gregorian]

32. It's not nice to fool Big Brother.

No doubt there will be copycats. And perhaps a crackdown to follow. Like video cameras EVERYWHERE. Capitalism ratchets down...

[DS1]

34. This reminds me of Project Mayhem

:7

[BrightKnight]

38. Reminds Me of the Weather Underground

I can NOT condone any criminal activity!

This reminds me of the Weather underground. They probably would have targeted the precincts with clear cases of voter fraud. Targeting retailers in LA was a bit odd. Perhaps it was just vandalism.

[Skittles]

41. cannot condone vandalism but . . . . . . .

can't feel particularly bad about it either :o

[Ima]

45. I can see it now!

Ban on crazy glue!


It's a lot quicker to drill the lock, rather than remove the glue. They were losing $$$ by the second. Cheaper to replace the lock, witch could be done with shopers in store. Good call.

[anarchy1999]

46. I LOVE LAFAYETTE, LA!!

ROFLAO! Both Mr & Ms. Anarchy applaud this action, loudly! Lafayette is one of my favorite cities in all of LA.

[amazona]

53. mine too

A beautiful area and a beautiful day in south Louisiana. Not a day to be caught in the mall shopping.

[MileHiStealth]

52. Instead of going shopping today ....

I rounded up a years supply of broken Craftsman
tools and exchanged them for new ones !!! Couple
hundred dollars worth of new ratchets, screwdrivers,
sockets, etc ...

[amazona]

54. whoo hoo you!

I didn't know you could still do that.