Posted on 11/26/2010 10:05:57 AM PST by traumer
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Shoppers waited out in the cold wet weather for hours. When the doors opened at 4 a.m. the Black Friday chaos turned ugly.
*** VIDEO at the link ***
Seconds after the doors opened, something went dangerously wrong.
Crazed Black Friday shoppers began piling up on each other.
"It went from controlled to a mob in less than five minutes and it just got nasty," said a shopper.
When officials heard the screams, they ran over right away to help.
Shopper Rich Mathewson said, "It was a lot of angry people just jumping in after we waited patiently for a long time. It actually started way before that, people started getting angry at everybody."
After it happened, one man bent over in pain but he took off into the North Buffalo Target store seconds later, along with everyone else.
Seconds after the pile up, shoppers got back to business. News 4 called store officials to see if anyone was injured, but no one was available to comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at wivb.com ...
“Black Friday” would give Senegal a bad name
LOL! Rickroll!
Not going anywhere near any mall ...at least the next few days ....
They were doing adverts long before Thanksgiving Day .... sick.
Cops arrest Wisconsin woman for threatening shoppers in toy store line
http://www.twincities.com/ci_16715641?nclick_check=1
good idea.
“4 AM. I could get up and go out and face a violent mob of crazed shoppers, or roll over and go back to sleep.”
My wife was at WalMart from midnight to 5 am. Said the crowd was heavy but very civilized. A lot of moms and a lot of late twenties types there looking for electronics deals.
I, on the other hand, was asleep.
good link !
“the woman attempted to move to the front of the line....
Police say other shoppers confronted the Middleton woman and she threatened to retrieve a gun and shoot them “
If you read the comments, this all happened because two women walked up 15 minutes before the doors opened and ran ahead of the people who had patiently waited for 5 hours. The woman in the gray jacket who ran in first should be found and prosecuted for the equivalent of yelling “fire” in a crowded theater.
The relative who caused all the problems refuses to go to Christmas eve services with us, (he's a liberal, what can I say), so he doesn't travel here for Christmas anymore. He and his uber-liberal wife stay where they are and probably talk smack about us for the day.
OMG- is this a REAL photo at Target?
The year, when I finally said, "Enough" was when my BIL's live in girlfriend of two years (whom I had met one time and never met her son with another guy) complained to another party that we sent gifts to her, the BIL and my BILs daughter (with another woman) but not to her kid who we had never met and only lived with them 50 percent of the time.
At that point, I just said, "Why am I doing this" and I stopped. Best decision ever.
Never mind- I kept reading downthread and found your post- not a pic of Target/Toys R Us...
As I read the article I had a feeling I would see that picture.
I must be psychic.
There was a story from Phoenix this morning about a guy who confronted people after his chair was moved.
Apparently he thought by placing a chair at the store, it would guraantee him a place in line. Sorry, but you need to “earn” your place in line.
That picture was on sale for 60% off!
HAHA - good one
I stopped doing Black Friday after waiting in line for 3 hours in near-freezing weather at Best Buy one year. When the doors were opened and people in line began snaking to the front door, people from the parking lot who had just arrived began merging into the line and walked right in!
Read my post #69. The people in line were calm and fine and would have entered the doors in an orderly fashion (just as they had waited in an orderly fashion) had two women not walked up just prior to the doors opening and ran in first!
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