Ashamed of my species

[NateTheChops]

We had people waiting outside the store at four in the morning yesterday. I'm like, it's the Bent Friggen Staple and we're not even open until six. What the hell are you people doing out here?

I'm just glad we didn't decide to carry Nintendo Wi''s for some god awful reason. I'd be typing this from a padded cell. (I'd get off on insanity because during my psychotic killing spree, I'd be naked and referring to Bea Arthur as my patron goddess. Yes, I have this planned out.)

[Mikkel]

yup and she gets to sit in jail until monday .....disorderly conduct, she has to wait for a judge

Sadly it seems that she got out on bail .

[Justsomegirl]

I work in a call center so not runing in like crazy. But I thought it was funny when I was speacking to some one in Canada. They knew it some some sort of big shopping day but were not sure what it was called. Some saw the adds and stuff but did not deem it worth getting out of bed for!!

[BlaqueKatt]

And in Madison, also at a Toys R Expensive, somebody tried to cut to the front of the line and threatened to get a gun and shoot people who confronted her over it.

yup and she gets to sit in jail until monday .....disorderly conduct, she has to wait for a judge

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

There was an almost stampede at a Toys R Expensive in my neck of the woods. They ended up having to let people in 50 at a time.

And in Madison, also at a Toys R Expensive, somebody tried to cut to the front of the line and threatened to get a gun and shoot people who confronted her over it.

Geez, what is it about toys that has people in such a lather this year?

[AccountingDrone]

Close. Buffalo.

I am currently dead center in Caledonia =)

[Marmalady]

stample trampede

Stample trampede? I'll have to remember that.

[BrenDAnn]

I just...I can't even...Wow. These people should be ashamed! Ugh...If this isn't a blatant statement of how greedy and self-absorbed a vast majority of people have become, I don't know what is! Also, yet another reason NOT to shop at Target!

[PepperElf]

It's Buffalo. Pretty close to how people drive there too.

[Merriweather]

We had one injury locall at WMart, or course. All items for the midnight sale were in the aisles, on flats, covered - not even employees knew what was in what box, evidently, so no one knew which were dvds, which games, or even bedding - many weren't even near the normal departments. So of course that only added to the confusion as people hovered, waiting for midnight and the unveiling (no lines outside, everyone was already in the store). Besides people reaching and grabbing to get movies, etc, you had people trying to go from one to another display to find what they were looking for (and no employees able to tell them which way to go, as they didn't know themselves). One poor woman was shoved, pushed or something (haven't heard, don't think it was deliberate, but don't really know), fell, couldn't get up (possible broken hip) and had to have an ambulance called.

Other than that, people (both employees and customers) were surprisingly cheery and polite. One cashier was so cheery at 5am that I was tempted to ask her what chemical help she had, LOL.

[Sapphire Silk]

I just watched it on CNN. Stampede caused by, what else, line cutters.

Disgusting.

This is why I don't go to the stores on Black Friday.

[JustaCashier]

I'm watching ABC World News right now (about 10 minutes to go as I type this) and they started the newscast with a Black Friday report, possibly about that Target Store. Shows one guy (shopper) got a bit trampled, gets up and leans against a counter or something, in apparent pain, composes himself, and then continues on

The newscaster's comments regarding BF in general, pretty much only revolved around customers getting hurt. I turned to the TV, and expressed my opinion outloud; Basically, Screw them. They brought it on themselves, by taking that risk. What about the employees that have been injured or killed in past years, in these tramplings brought on by herds of morons? They pretty much have no choice to be there, or lose their jobs!

Do I believe BF shoppers that get hurt deserve it? Of course not. I just don't have a hell of a lot of sympathy for them since they choose to participate in it, and the employees, as I note above, really don't have a choice to be there and risk anything from verbal abuse, to physical injury or death, simply doing their jobs.


Mike

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

And here I was thinking about how much the holidays are going to suck this year because I don't think sales today are going to be any good, and we're going to be sitting on stuff well into February.

This just makes me realize Black Friday could suck far more. We could end up all over the news because of somebody being seriously maimed or killed.

It didn't look like anybody was really interested in helping that poor guy. They just treated him like a speed bump on the way to electronics.

And I can also be thankful my store didn't have anything worth trampling people over. Then again, no store ever does.

[Demolition Man]

http://primewriter.com/news-1246-headlines/?p=11379

I honestly blame Target for not having any kind of ticket system setup for these TV sales. That only encourages things like this to happen. Yes I fault the people as well for trampling the man over but geez how many more times does this have to happen before the whole stample trampede of Black Friday is ended.

[bhskittykatt]

That's disgusting. I've heard of people getting stampeded to death in previous Black Friday rushes. No amount of cheap crap is worth a human life.