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Hey all, I was one of the barbarian horde ravaging the retail stores last night and despite a vast majority of pleasant and well behaved shoppers, of course there is always a few looney tunes and asshats who have to misbehave, here's what I saw last night for your reading pleasure.
B/G: RainRoommate and I were literally the first ones in line at our local Red Bullseye, arriving at 4pm for a 9pm opening. The big doorbuster was a 50 inch flatscreen on the cheap, for which they handed out tickets. Finally, as I said in another post, to try and bring a little pick-me-up to the employees who had to deal with the horde, I had a giant bag of PBcups to toss about
Story 1: On The Line.
Around 6:00pm the Red Bullseye security coordinator told those of us in line that by 6:30 no one else would be allowed to join those already in line. There were probably less than 50 of us by that time and I saw him literally go to each group of shoppers to make sure they understood this. At 7 a woman came up and began chatting it up with some thug wannabes a few spots behind us, she was the fiance of one of them. Security Coordr. told her that she couldn't join them in line, but she was welcome to get in the back of the line and promised that there would be enough tickets available for them both to get the 50 inch tvs. (seems pretty reasonable right?) Well for some reason she didn't do this and just hung out on the wrong side of the barricade talking. Around 8pm I heard a commotion and saw her storming off to her car shouting "I woulda spent stacks here too m*therf*ker!" Then Mr. ThugNasty starts into the security guy about his girl. I literally thought to myself "I get the feeling I am about to get some SC material, lol"
ThugNasty: Hey asshole! why you got make this personal! Why you gotta do my girl like that!
Sec. Co: Sir, I already explained this! There is no way your fiance can be allowed to just stand on the wrong side of the barricade, out of line, and simply join you as you walk into the store. If I let one person do it, I have to let ANYONE do it, next thing you know we could have 50 people up here, "joining" someone else as they go in.
ThugNasty: Naw you dont! You just send them other people packing!
Sec. Co: So I am just supposed to make an exception JUST for you? Even though this entire situation could have been avoided if she had just gotten in line when I told her to?
ThugNasty: B*tch! No one tells my girl what to do but me! Why you gotta be like that? You fucked up our entire night!
Sec. Co: You brought this on yourself sir, no one kept your fiance out of line, and if you keep cursing at me I will have you removed as well, there are children about in case you hadn't noticed! (There were, not many, but still)
ThugNasty: Man f*ck them and f*ck you! Let my girl back in this line or Im coming over this barricade at you!
Sec.CO: Is that a threat?! That's it! You're gone! Get out of line, give up your ticket and get off our property or I can have police here in minutes!
ThugNasty: Whatever b*tch! I ain't moving!
Sec.Co did exactly as he said he would. He used his radio to get more security personnel to him and sure enough, about 5 minutes later a police car rolled in. ThugNasty finally did something smart and left without a fuss after that.
Watching that was a fun way to kill half an hour waiting for the store to open.
The only other thing that was off was when they actually opened the doors.
A bunch of people behind the barricade were standing with cameras and their phones aimed at us. RainRoommate and I started calmly walking into the store and a suprisingly large amount of the onlookers were shouting at us.
"Come on! run!"
"What are you doing walking! that's no fun! run in there!"
"What lame asses!"
"You guys are doing this wrong!"
We ignored them and just kept walking. Sorry folks, Im not gonna be the one to give you a Black Friday Stampede video.
This is also when I started tossing around PBcups to the employees, I made several new friends right off the bat
B/G: RainRoommate and I were literally the first ones in line at our local Red Bullseye, arriving at 4pm for a 9pm opening. The big doorbuster was a 50 inch flatscreen on the cheap, for which they handed out tickets. Finally, as I said in another post, to try and bring a little pick-me-up to the employees who had to deal with the horde, I had a giant bag of PBcups to toss about
Story 1: On The Line.
Around 6:00pm the Red Bullseye security coordinator told those of us in line that by 6:30 no one else would be allowed to join those already in line. There were probably less than 50 of us by that time and I saw him literally go to each group of shoppers to make sure they understood this. At 7 a woman came up and began chatting it up with some thug wannabes a few spots behind us, she was the fiance of one of them. Security Coordr. told her that she couldn't join them in line, but she was welcome to get in the back of the line and promised that there would be enough tickets available for them both to get the 50 inch tvs. (seems pretty reasonable right?) Well for some reason she didn't do this and just hung out on the wrong side of the barricade talking. Around 8pm I heard a commotion and saw her storming off to her car shouting "I woulda spent stacks here too m*therf*ker!" Then Mr. ThugNasty starts into the security guy about his girl. I literally thought to myself "I get the feeling I am about to get some SC material, lol"
ThugNasty: Hey asshole! why you got make this personal! Why you gotta do my girl like that!
Sec. Co: Sir, I already explained this! There is no way your fiance can be allowed to just stand on the wrong side of the barricade, out of line, and simply join you as you walk into the store. If I let one person do it, I have to let ANYONE do it, next thing you know we could have 50 people up here, "joining" someone else as they go in.
ThugNasty: Naw you dont! You just send them other people packing!
Sec. Co: So I am just supposed to make an exception JUST for you? Even though this entire situation could have been avoided if she had just gotten in line when I told her to?
ThugNasty: B*tch! No one tells my girl what to do but me! Why you gotta be like that? You fucked up our entire night!
Sec. Co: You brought this on yourself sir, no one kept your fiance out of line, and if you keep cursing at me I will have you removed as well, there are children about in case you hadn't noticed! (There were, not many, but still)
ThugNasty: Man f*ck them and f*ck you! Let my girl back in this line or Im coming over this barricade at you!
Sec.CO: Is that a threat?! That's it! You're gone! Get out of line, give up your ticket and get off our property or I can have police here in minutes!
ThugNasty: Whatever b*tch! I ain't moving!
Sec.Co did exactly as he said he would. He used his radio to get more security personnel to him and sure enough, about 5 minutes later a police car rolled in. ThugNasty finally did something smart and left without a fuss after that.
Watching that was a fun way to kill half an hour waiting for the store to open.
The only other thing that was off was when they actually opened the doors.
A bunch of people behind the barricade were standing with cameras and their phones aimed at us. RainRoommate and I started calmly walking into the store and a suprisingly large amount of the onlookers were shouting at us.
"Come on! run!"
"What are you doing walking! that's no fun! run in there!"
"What lame asses!"
"You guys are doing this wrong!"
We ignored them and just kept walking. Sorry folks, Im not gonna be the one to give you a Black Friday Stampede video.
This is also when I started tossing around PBcups to the employees, I made several new friends right off the bat
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