# Holiday shopping stress **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-shopping-stress/94957 "2001-11-23T22:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-shopping-stress/94957/1 "2001-11-23T22:58:31Z")
[Self immolation at the mall](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-011123burningman.story): > [@](#): > > A man shouting ``freedom and liberty for all’’ doused himself in a chemical and lit himself on fire this morning at a suburban Illinois shopping mall, witnesses said. > > Witnesses said the man, described as being in his late 20s or early 30s, was yelling as he leaned from a mezzanine railing and threw burning packages onto the CherryVale Mall’s center court. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-shopping-stress/94957/2 "2001-11-23T23:20:13Z")
Somehow appropriate that there’s an advertisement for MasterCard on that page. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-shopping-stress/94957/3 "2001-11-26T10:31:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zyada \* > \*\*Somehow appropriate that there’s an advertisement for MasterCard on that page. \*\* Settting one’s self on fire… Priceless. \< snicker \>