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davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
Fri Nov 25, 2016, 02:14 PM Nov 2016

Two people shot and brawls break out around country as Black Friday is underway



Two people were shot dead and two others were injured in three separate incidents in New Jersey, Nevada and Tennessee as Black Friday kicked off.

A man was fatally shot and his brother was wounded in a shooting outside of a Macy's in New Jersey on Friday morning while another was shot dead in an apparent road rage incident in a Walmart parking lot in Nevada on Thursday.

A fourth person suffered a gunshot wound on Thursday at a mall in Tennessee as shoppers were taking part in early Black Friday sales.

Amid Black Friday madness, cellphone footage from various stores showed shoppers fighting over items in a bid to score shopping deals.

In video apparently recorded inside a Walmart in Bainbridge, Georgia, showed shoppers fighting over towels that were on sale for $1.60 during the Black Friday rush on Thursday.

At one point, one woman so eager to get her hands on a towels that she fell into the box.

Meanwhile, shoppers at a Walmart in Houston broke into an all-out melee on Black Friday, as customers battled it out for some $99 kiddie convertibles.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3971386/One-person-shot-dead-outside-Macy-s-Black-Friday.html

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Two people shot and brawls break out around country as Black Friday is underway (Original Post) davidn3600 Nov 2016 OP
I just don't get it. Statistical Nov 2016 #1
Ugh. I don't get it. Warpy Nov 2016 #2
Gun deaths! Whow!! Have we had gun deaths on Black Friday in past years?? (when fighting riversedge Nov 2016 #3
And that is why I stay home. Initech Nov 2016 #4
Me 2 MFM008 Nov 2016 #6
This is the first Black Friday DemKittyNC Nov 2016 #5
I feel the same way. liquid diamond Nov 2016 #9
What the hell is wrong with people? bluedigger Nov 2016 #7
lol. indeed!! IcyPeas Nov 2016 #8

Statistical

(19,264 posts)
1. I just don't get it.
Fri Nov 25, 2016, 02:19 PM
Nov 2016

I use to shop on black Friday 20 years ago before online shopping but I enjoy staying home on Friday. It is sad how devolved it has become.

Warpy

(111,261 posts)
2. Ugh. I don't get it.
Fri Nov 25, 2016, 02:21 PM
Nov 2016

I suppose fighting over mundane items at a few cents off might confer a thrill to people who have nothing else in their lives but even at my lowest and poorest, paying that few cents the next week was worth it just to avoid combat and elbows to the eye.

riversedge

(70,223 posts)
3. Gun deaths! Whow!! Have we had gun deaths on Black Friday in past years?? (when fighting
Fri Nov 25, 2016, 02:22 PM
Nov 2016

over merchandise and getting angry)

DemKittyNC

(743 posts)
5. This is the first Black Friday
Fri Nov 25, 2016, 02:37 PM
Nov 2016

where I have just stayed home and will not be buying a single thing. I really do not even feel like celebrating Christmas to be honest. I have never been this depressed in my entire life I do not think and this is after last November finding out my mom has breast cancer and battling through that with her.

 

liquid diamond

(1,917 posts)
9. I feel the same way.
Fri Nov 25, 2016, 07:11 PM
Nov 2016

The holidays are ruined. I felt I was going to miss Obama before the election, but now that feeling has increased 10 fold considering what is replacing him this January.

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)
7. What the hell is wrong with people?
Fri Nov 25, 2016, 02:56 PM
Nov 2016

I mean, it's almost 2017 and they still don't know to turn their phones horizontal when shooting video?

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