Black Friday. It is a day that makes customers giddy, store clerks cringe, and store corporation managers gleeful over the sales to be had. It falls the Friday of the American Thanksgiving, and for the average shopper, roughly translates into "OMG SALES!!1!".
Anyway. People are known to line up from as early as midnight in front of store doors so as to get good deals on early Christmas shopping items, such as very cheap dolls, Wii games or electronics. While the stores do their best to keep the shopping somewhat calm, people are known to get vicious when fighting over discounted TVs, Barbies, Lego kits or sweaters.
How vicious, you ask? This year alone there have been two reported shooting outside of two seperate Wal-Mart locations in the States, namely in Northern California and South Carolina. Also, in a third Wal-Mart in Los Angeles, twenty shoppers (including children) became victims of another female shopper's pepper spray attack.
Even more sickening is that the customers who avoided the worst of the pepper spray didn't bother trying to help the victims or to catch the woman who attacked them. Instead, they could see sales beyond the downed customers and wanted to get the new Wii games for 70% off NOW, DAMMIT, and bugger the person who is clawing at my foot and crying because of some pepper spray in their eyes.
Disgusting.
Only in America...
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