Black Friday took on a whole new meaning today with a few violent incidents around the country.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/28/black.friday.violence/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/28/black.friday.violence/index.html)
Horrible news. Especially the incident at Wal-Mart in NYC.
Has anyone taken part in Black Friday around Jax? Is it this chaotic?
It's disgusting and I really wish the stores would stop such practices that clearly bring out the worst in people. Why don't they just have to discounts for a couple of days, instead of in such a limited time frame that results in chaos. I hope the police nab the sick bastards that did this and charge them. I also hope the man's family will sue Walmart
A sad commentary on our consumerist society... :(
Indeed....some things bring out the best in people...and stuff like that, brings out the worst
I work in retail :-[.... its not a fun day. Thats all I have to say. :-\ :( ???
I just read where they are looking at the video to charge people.. that will be tough, but I hope they can because this is just stupid. I am shocked at people....
I hope they can find who did it also....those who were responsible need to be charged and convicted
Quote from: BridgeTroll on November 28, 2008, 07:19:04 PM
A sad commentary on our consumerist society... :(
Couldn't have said it better.
Quote from: uptowngirl on November 29, 2008, 07:46:54 AM
I just read where they are looking at the video to charge people.. that will be tough, but I hope they can because this is just stupid. I am shocked at people....
Yeah it will be tough. I saw on the news that it would be hard to prosecute anyone because the people in the front were being pushed by the people in the back. Wal-Mart though, should definitely be held liable. The saddest thing I saw was when they were taking his body out on a stretcher to the ambulance. People were just casually walking out of the store with their over-sized bags in hand, and showed what appeared to be not a care in the world to what they had just caused. Truely saddening.