No, it wasn’t. Next?
I will never understand this kind of behaviour. I would never stand in a line overnight for anything. Even if it were dope and I was still using.
Are these items that will not be available after today? Did they make only a limited supply? Do these people place no value on their time?
If it was a Wal-Mart executive, I might laugh. Some low level employee who has to do the dirty work on the front line against the thundering herd – not so much. Nobody hates Black Friday more than those employees. They take nothing but abuse (sometimes life-threatening abuse) and get basically shit in return. By all rights, it’s the execs who should have to stand in front of those doors and deal with greedy, insulting morons all day long.
Yeah, but unhappily, of course they don’t. They get to sit in comfortable leather chairs in the boardroom and wonder at why they aren’t squeezing more life out of their employees. Over coffee and doughnuts.
Not to mention in my (fortunately) limited retail experience, a lot of the low-paid employees literally have no choice but to work that day. Many of the retail stores I’ve been in had policies that if you didn’t show up to work Black Friday, you better not bother showing up again after that. I’m not even sure if that’s legal or not, but what low-income worker has the power to fight that if it happens?
Crowds like this are something I try to avoid, so I don’t shop on such days or popular hours. Besides, who needs stores when you’ve got the Internet? Are the bargains that good that you want to risk being trampled to death?
I agree with you-I was just explaining how bad Black Friday can be. I never would have expected it to be THIS bad, but it can be VERY nasty. So one should be prepared.
Absolutely. This is typical Wal-Mart behavior, though.
That’s nothing-I saw on the news a Best Buy in southern CA that had people lining up A WEEK AGO already. I shit you not.
No, no it wasn’t, you fucking insensitive piece of shit.
I couldn’t help but notice that you glossed over my response to your claim that “my fingers still worked even though my jaw was wired shut”…(paraphrasing)
Nice.
Because what else was there to say? “Oh, I’m not a racist, I was just asking why it always seems said race does such and such…” Maybe it was just an area that was predominantly black-what does that mean? What DIFFERENCE does it make in this case, anyways?
Holy fucking Og! See, that bullshit should not fucking be allowed. Shame on these stores for encouraging this nonsense.
No. It wasn’t. Why would you think such an awful death would be hilarious?
Um, don’t the people lining up for a week need to eat? Don’t any of them have families or kids? How are they going to live for a full week without doing those things? It doesn’t make any sense.
Just to be clear, the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati was the site of the 1979 The Who concert. It was an indoor arena seating approximately 17,000 for basketball games. Riverfront Stadium was a nearby football/baseball stadium.
That’s not exactly what I was asking. I never said any such thing, you’re jumping to conclusions. I was in no way trying to be disengenuous. I was merely expressing curiosity after viewing photographs of this *particular incident *if any racial conclusions could be drawn based on statistics, nothing more, nothing less.
Of course you read that to mean “why do only black people act this way…why can’t they be more like us civilised white people?”
C’mon. Now it’s you being dishonest, or at the very least, casting dispersions where they aren’t warranted.
DOH!
I am ashamed to call myself a Cincinnati (or thereabouts) resident!
:smack:
I agree, don’t they have jobs?
So, how many of the people involved in this stampede will line up again at 5am next year and do the same fucking thing again?
One less than this year, I would guess.
I know nothing about law, but I’d like to see Wal-Mart and every other store running these limited item sales as defendants for creating a threatening environment. Perhaps it is just me, but I think telling 200,000 people that they can get a chance at 200 items at a deep discount only at 5:00am is designed to cause a problem, not an “event”. Hell, even the door sign called it a “blitz”.
It has been many moons (dating back to before WalMart opened) since I’ve been to Green Acres mall, but my last recollection was that the place was a hellhole of a mall.
IMO, the motive for it doesn’t matter. Whether they were in the store to get bargains or to gun one another down–you don’t bring a gun into a public place like that. The fact that this a huge shopping day just adds ire.
I haven’t followed the story closely (or at all) since it broke, but I hope they ended up just killing each other.
BrainGlutton–your attempt at humor has failed.