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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1092 Joined: 23 Sep 2008     | |
Red Guard  Posts: 3509 Joined: 18 Sep 2008     | I shook my head in disgust that a store employee was trampled to DEATH in Long Island by the crowds. How horrible. Other then that, I drove to visit family. It was nice. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 703 Joined: 10 Apr 2008     |
I to shook my head in shame at the DB's who trampled the walmart employee. Then sat more stunned when i learned that two more people had died at Toys-R-Us in roughly the same way. Other than that i played through the Force Unleashed on the 360. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1770 Joined: 1 May 2008     | More importantly, this friday is World Day of the Ninja! Make sure to dress all in black and do ninja-ish things. DEATH TO PIRATES!!! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1791 Joined: 29 May 2008    | If i lived in America, i doubt i'd ever go out on Black Friday! I can't honestly see how the prices are that much different to what you'd find on the interwibble the rest of the year |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2787 Joined: 5 Aug 2008    |
Indeed. As for me, I spent the whole day in a car, as my family and I were driving home from Thanksgiving in Nebraska (I hate Nebraska). |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4347 Joined: 9 Jul 2008   | Sat home and played video games. My friend tried to tease me about not taking advantage of the bargains and I told him he was acting like a girl for talking about shopping. He got an iPhone. I'm sort of jealous. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 212 Joined: 25 Sep 2008   | slept most of the day working graveyards will do that to ya |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 357 Joined: 19 Oct 2008    | I stayed in a tent in 3 place of line in front of Best Buy with my first love and ex, and then my other ex who I'd been friends with for years, along with my best friend, my second ex's mom, and her uncle. 8/ Surprisingly, nothing was awkward. Oh, and we went exploring some old maintenance / sewer tunnels while we waited. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3086 Joined: 13 Jul 2008     | Is Black Friday an American thing? Because I'm from England, and I haven't a clue what it is. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 703 Joined: 10 Apr 2008 |
Day after thanksgiving where stores cut huge amounts of money off thier prices. Many people go buy electronics such as tv's or game systems/labtops b/c they tend to be like 1/2 off. Also very popular for general x-mas shopping because of all the price cuts. Stores open around like 5 and lines form 2-3 hours before hand but i have waited in a line for 12+hrs for a 55inch plasma marked from 1300 down to 300 bucks for the 1st 5 customers. Its insane and yes people do die. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2585 Joined: 27 Sep 2008   |
Yaar, I be spurnin yer shady festivities, yeller bellied sneaks that ye be. Edit: Oh right. Fair enough. I'd probably go shopping if stuff was that cheap. And I hate shopping. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2369 Joined: 1 Aug 2008   | I worked retail that day, it was sort of fun actually. Other than the 4X the foot traffic. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 608 Joined: 6 Oct 2008  |
We were discussing this at my work earlier... Did the walmart even close? That's the least they can do for the death of an employee... I heard that after paramedics arrived and were trying to resuscitate the employee, they were knocked around by people rushing into them and not caring as well... Ridiculous |
On the Record  Posts: 5491 Joined: 13 Aug 2008   |
It's an unofficial retail holiday that marks the beginning of holiday sales with arguably some of the best deals of the year. It's named "Black" Friday because it's the day when many retail stores when from being "in the red", or making a net loss, to being "in the black", making a net profit. It is also, apart from Christmas Eve, the worst day to go holiday shopping, becaue every store is literally mobbed, to the point where several people are trampled each year. Personally, I had a second Thanksgiving with my Dad, after spending the first with my Mom. |
Muckraker Posts: 235 Joined: 4 Aug 2008  | Heh, I mentioned black friday a week or two ago to someone and a coworker overheard me. He thought I was being racist. I might've made it worse when I went along with it and told him it was my white supremacist group's day of thanks. I wonder if I have some paperwork waiting on me to sign when I go in this weekend.. Edit: And I sat around being lazy, I think. I really don't even remember now. Probably sat around, though. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 703 Joined: 10 Apr 2008 |
They let no more people in but let the people already inside hurry and get stuff - at least thats what cnn said |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2820 Joined: 19 Sep 2008  |
Having been in England on Boxing day, i can say you also have a shopping frenzy that's similar (but only half as bad as) black friday in MOST areas of the USA. So if you wonder what its like in most sane, rational areas of the country, think of boxing day but about two times as many people. BF though always has one story like this every year, and it's almost always at a Wal*Mart, which usually don't attract the highest caliber people to start with. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 608 Joined: 6 Oct 2008 |
Still extremely ridiculous... Can't believe they wouldn't kick everyone in out, it was their fault after all... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 729 Joined: 26 Jun 2008 | Yes, it's the Walmart's fault for not having a cast iron portcullis to prevent people from breaking down the doors when the maintenance guy starts to open them. I don't think you understand just how big this mob was. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 800 Joined: 25 Nov 2008   | Walmart could have done a better job of controlling the group while they were still outside. Best Buy forces everyone to stand in a line to get in while at the Walmart, everyone was pretty much just pressed up against the glass waiting to get in. Also, I heard that the police will be reviewing the security camera footage so that they can charge some of the people responsible. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 857 Joined: 13 Oct 2007   | I worked a 19 hour double shift >_> |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2633 Joined: 30 Sep 2008  | I bought some new shoes and a couple books. |
On the Record  Posts: 5973 Joined: 7 Feb 2008  | Black Whatchamahoo? |
Muckraker  Posts: 324 Joined: 27 Sep 2008  | http://www.nhl.com/ice/recap.htm?id=2008020323 I was there. Glad to see the Hub of Hockey back on top. Were I at home, I probably would have been watching movies in a zombie-like state or playing Fallout 3/Left 4 Dead. That's a lot of zombie references... |
Vault Legend  Posts: 2205 Joined: 30 Jul 2008   | Hid. I hid, and cowered. Oh, and I drove back to my college town to work that night. Thankfully, not in retail. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 730 Joined: 29 Feb 2008   | I happen to be in america at the moment but since I didnt really know what it was I just slept. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 357 Joined: 29 Nov 2008 | nothing, just a normal day. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 87 Joined: 8 Oct 2008    | hung out with friends and went to the mall |
BANNED  Posts: 6317 Joined: 29 Nov 2007  | I yelled at America (This was carried out by me yelling at the ground) for having such a stupid "tradition" that sees people dying every year. User was banned for: The hypocrisy is KILLING me.. (Permanent) |
On the Record  Posts: 5946 Joined: 7 Mar 2008   | woke up and went to work and came home and played video games |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 106 Joined: 14 Oct 2008 | Sat on my bed, thanked G-d I'm Jewish, later that day I saved around $36, then I sat on my bed again and thanked G-d I saved almost $36. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1446 Joined: 7 May 2008 |
Not just ridiculous, but an incentive for fanatical shoppers to purposely trample the shit out of people. IF YOU WANT TO LIVE, STAY AWAY FROM MALLS NEXT YEAR |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3252 Joined: 8 May 2008 | I played HL2: ep 2 and TF2 all day. And it was awesome |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 392 Joined: 7 Mar 2008   | I had to work, otherwise I would've gotten a tattoo... |
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Just say your stories. I didn't do anything for the fear of the feet but i am still intrested in other peoples stories