Get a grip, people. It’s just a TV!
The darkness that is the aptly titled “Black Friday” has once again descended upon these shores, where consumer prospects of saving $200 on a new Smart TV spurs people into reenacting their favorites scene from “The Purge.”
The “Black Friday” mayhem from last year resulted in at least one death due to a dispute over a parking space at a Walmart parking lot; this year, we have grown men squabbling over a toy car and a baby getting a shoe thrown in their face. In some stores, people have even been caught posing as staff to beat the lines. As Bing Crosby would say, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”
According to News.com, “police were called to the Riverchase Galleria shopping centre in Hoover, Alabama to break up a fight between at least two women, which forced the shopping centre to be shut early.”
A bystander caught the lady brawl on camera as a security guard tried to break it up . . . unsuccessfully. Witnesses report seeing a shoe thrown in the scuffle which planted into a baby’s face:
Some have taken their “Black Friday” craze to more creative lengths by posing as staff members to beat the lines. Here’s what one Twitter user had to say about it:
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After the tweet went viral, other Walmart employees offered to sell their uniforms for as much as $100.
Projections from the National Retail Federation show that Americans will spend upwards of $20 billion over the Thanksgiving weekend.