:facepalm: You gotta be kidding me.

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.oregonlive.com/window-shop/index.ssf/2011/11/black_friday_customer_already.html

<snip>

Mike O'Brien pitched his tent in front of the Gresham Best Buy Monday, four days before the consumer electronics retailer's midnight opening on Black Friday.

The camping trip, his third pre-Black Friday sojourn at Best Buy, made him the chain's first Black Friday customer in line across the Pacific Northwest. It also makes him quite the hero at home.

"My wife made me do it," said O'Brien, 43, who spoke from the warmth of his car Tuesday night, as he watched a movie and rain pelted his windows. His wife delivers dinners and although she had to work Tuesday, she plans to join him in the tent tonight.

It's not all bad, he said, except it was kind of loud when the blue portable toilets were dropped just outside his tent early Tuesday morning.

</snip>

Jeezus H. Christ. I need a drink.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. "Shop as usual....and no panic buying." -negativland

[Codeine]

17. "Guns!"

"This. . . is Sycamore."

Sorry, apropos of nothing, but I'm a huge negativland fan. :hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

30. There is no other possibility.

:hi:

[Taverner]

32. Me too. Helter Stupid!

[lbrtbell]

2. Pepper-spray HIS ass, why don't you?

God, this makes me sick. He'll camp 4 days for sales, but not for OWS.

[stevedeshazer]

3. Exactly.

And he's fucking unemployed.

[rsmith6621]

4. Rumor Has It Some OWS Protesters are....

....already camping out incognito occasionally talking about issues with any other campers....Just wait until 5 minutes before the store open...talk about flash mobs...and BB isnt the only place.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. suh-PRAHS! :D

[Tommykun]

6. Capitalist brainwashing at its finest...

From birth we are told that we must buy, buy and buy more! That we need that new car, or the new cologne, or that shiny new pair of shoes endorsed by some multi-millionaire basketball player. We are forged into the perfect host for parasitic corporations, and are taught that if we don't like something they say then we we're not "cool" or even that we will be put down.

It's a sad byproduct of our society that many would rather camp out for days for the newest game console, or to see the newest blockbuster movie, but not even spare an hour or so just to stand up for our freedoms.

It's a sad sad day in America...

[Goldstein1984]

15. Say "No" to Black Friday

My entire family (3 children, their spouses, 5 grandchildren, a few extended family members) has agreed to ZERO Holiday shopping this year. We will be contributing to food drives, community kitchens, and Occupy Anchorage, but no holiday shopping. The holidays will be about family and a meal together.

[Erose999]

21. Buy Nothing Day > Black Friday

[ThatsMyBarack]

23. Welcome to DU, Tommykun!

:hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. You are going to make me go out of the house

At that god awful time to chase that story, aren't you?

[Contrary1]

7. Here's a double facepalm for you:

Tampa Woman Lines Up 9 Days Early For Best Buy's Black Friday Sale

November 17, 2011

While thousands of people her age are busy camping out in various Occupy movements around the country, a Florida woman decided last night to occupy the sidewalk outside her local Best Buy in order to be the first person to be disappointed by the Black Friday offerings on Nov. 25.

"You can't beat some of the deals they have on plasmas, flat screens and laptops," the young woman, who has coordinated her camp-out with three other families, tells Tampa's NBC affiliate. "We're all students; you've got to pinch a penny; it's affordable right now."

We don't know if she actually calculated the amount of money she and her cohorts are spending on their not-at-all-idiotic outdoors adventure. Because we're pretty sure she would still get the same deals if she showed up a mere few hours ahead of the Black Friday madness... or maybe just stayed at home and shopped online.

http://consumerist.com/2011/11/tampa-woman-lines-up-for-black-friday-at-best-buy-9-days-early.html

[mikeytherat]

13. Infinite facepalm: "You can't beat some of the deals they have on plasmas, flat screens, and..."

A plasma TV is a flatscreen, ya dim bulb.

mikey_the_rat

[Arkansas Granny]

25. Yeah, but you don't get any attention and you don't get interviews

if you wait until everyone else gerts there.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. We need to ask Oregon Police if they are concerned about "health and safety" of the Black Friday mob

[Aerows]

9. If you are surprised

You really shouldn't be. Sadly :(.

[JI7]

10. can someone tell me the deals being offered ?

[JI7]

12. i just looked on best buy website at one of the tvs being offered for huge discount

and it has horrible reviews. one person said it broke within a week.

[Erose999]

22. And they probably only have 1 or 2 in stock at each store.

To hell with corporate big boxes.

[blueamy66]

11. sorry for the name calling

but what a freaking dumb ass!

[dembotoz]

14. black friday is the most fun i have during the xmas season

i hate the rest of it.

hated it as a child
hate it today

let me have my few hours of optimism before the whole christmas charade comes crashing down over my head.

[JI7]

31. what is it that you like about Black Friday ?

and hate about the rest of it ?

[ladyVet]

16. Well, at least he has his priorities straight.

:sarcasm:

Geeesh, I agree. Where's the pepper spray for him?

[madinmaryland]

18. That guy needs to get a life. Sounds like his wife does too.

[mmonk]

19. According to the Holy Scriptures of the Shopping Mall, tents

pose no public health hazard near Big Box stores and similar places like the OWS ones do.

[mikeytherat]

20. They Live. They really, really do:

mikey_the_rat

[ThatsMyBarack]

24. In this day and age....

Black Friday shopping is considered major news in this country. :(

[marmar]

26. The consumer brainwashing in this country has been thorough......

The urge to buy pointless shit that will be put on some shelf somewhere shortly after Jan. 1 is strong.

[in_cog_ni_to]

27. His tent will be destroyed, his computer demolished and he'll be pepper sprayed...any moment now!

:eyes:

Camping to buy stuff = Good citizen.

Camping to protest government and crooks = Baaaaaad citizen.

[Javaman]

28. camping for consumerism=good. camping for your rights=bad.

all clear now?

[lame54]

29. Occupy Best Buy