Another successful Black Friday at Wal-Mart

PJ_Soul
PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,910
edited November 2012 in A Moving Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qRs2dBoK0

Fucking savages.

Why do stores keep on doing these sales? There are already dozens of videos on YouTube showing out of control shoppers... so why in the hell don't stores do controlled entry, with a monitored line outside of the store, and letting in only a certain number of shoppers at a time? Clubs do it every fucking night. They do it in Canada all the time for Boxing Day Sales.... So why do Americans keep on going for the mob scene? It's weird.
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 45,221
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qRs2dBoK0

    Fucking savages.

    Why do stores keep on doing these sales? There are already dozens of videos on YouTube showing out of control shoppers... so why in the hell don't stores do controlled entry, with a monitored line outside of the store, and letting in only a certain number of shoppers at a time? Clubs do it every fucking night. They do it in Canada all the time for Boxing Day Sales.... So why do Americans keep on going for the mob scene? It's weird.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    Holy shit! This video is like watching insanity at the edge of the apocalypse. I don't know whether to laugh, cry or vomit.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,910
    brianlux wrote:
    Holy shit! This video is like watching insanity at the edge of the apocalypse. I don't know whether to laugh, cry or vomit.
    My natural reaction was to feel disgust for the shoppers (and I still do, of course. What monsters.), but then after a few minutes, I turned by a lot of my disgust towards Wal-Mart for letting it happen year after year, even after they've had a death and injuries to customers from Black Friday stampedes in the past. You'd think they would have learned their lesson and set up company-wide procedures for controlling the crowds.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,910
    Hey, it's the motherload for Wal-Mart stampede vids. :roll:

    http://gawker.com/5962889/theres-a-riot ... ewcomments
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    Here's a clip of a similar scene from Black Friday, November 1849 at the opening bell of the big sale at Hank's General Store:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9266668350
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,910
    brianlux wrote:
    Here's a clip of a similar scene from Black Friday, November 1849 at the opening bell of the big sale at Hank's General Store:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9266668350
    That's about right, except that the cows are a lot more civilized.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    Here's a clip of a similar scene from Black Friday, November 1849 at the opening bell of the big sale at Hank's General Store:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9266668350
    That's about right, except that the cows are a lot more civilized.

    :lol: Well said!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,910
    Something just occurred to me: Our city has a riot once in the while, whenever there is a Stanley Cup final ( :fp: ), and in the last riot, the looters who burned and pillaged the downtown core were WAY more respectful of each others space than these people are on Black Friday. :?
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    wal mart needs shut down! they deserve to be burnt to the ground actually. they allow such behavior year after year. this kinda behavior is ignorant and wal mart & any other store that allows such behavior is pathetic. i say us humans boycott wal mart & any store that has practiced such greed on this thing called black friday.

    i mean seriously... ppl get hurt & even die. yet year after year same style of behavior for these mindless freaks. very disturbing. wal mart & the like are classless
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  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    This is why Obama is President .

    Those were all Obamaphones.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,067
    FUCK YOU OBAMA. IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT.

    I STUBBED MY TOE TODAY....IT'S YOUR FAULT YOU PIECE OF SHIT, OBAMA

    Edit: I really bet this shit didn't happen under GWB ( /Sarcasm font/....my next invention)
  • fear4freedom
    fear4freedom Posts: 920
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qRs2dBoK0

    Fucking savages.

    Why do stores keep on doing these sales? There are already dozens of videos on YouTube showing out of control shoppers... so why in the hell don't stores do controlled entry, with a monitored line outside of the store, and letting in only a certain number of shoppers at a time? Clubs do it every fucking night. They do it in Canada all the time for Boxing Day Sales.... So why do Americans keep on going for the mob scene? It's weird.

    DUDE I went to Toronto for a weekend for Pearl Jam on 9/11/11 and the place rioted all night long! The mindset is madening! Canadians have losers also, and they all seem to be out after midnight causing the police on horses to risk their lives trying to control the crazy drunkards!
    Theres no time like the present

    A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!

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  • fear4freedom
    fear4freedom Posts: 920
    chadwick wrote:
    wal mart needs shut down! they deserve to be burnt to the ground actually. they allow such behavior year after year. this kinda behavior is ignorant and wal mart & any other store that allows such behavior is pathetic. i say us humans boycott wal mart & any store that has practiced such greed on this thing called black friday.

    i mean seriously... ppl get hurt & even die. yet year after year same style of behavior for these mindless freaks. very disturbing. wal mart & the like are classless

    This happens in front of many store fronts bud! Also, its the people that are the problem....not the store!
    The mindset that people are seeking things....not the meaningful things in life...love, relationships, GOD etc.
    Theres no time like the present

    A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!

    All people need to do more on every level!
  • fear4freedom
    fear4freedom Posts: 920
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    Holy shit! This video is like watching insanity at the edge of the apocalypse. I don't know whether to laugh, cry or vomit.
    My natural reaction was to feel disgust for the shoppers (and I still do, of course. What monsters.), but then after a few minutes, I turned by a lot of my disgust towards Wal-Mart for letting it happen year after year, even after they've had a death and injuries to customers from Black Friday stampedes in the past. You'd think they would have learned their lesson and set up company-wide procedures for controlling the crowds.

    There have been mayhem at malls, shopping centers, other stores, etc. There are flash mobs who rob 7/11's, etc. Its not the store.....its the people!
    Theres no time like the present

    A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!

    All people need to do more on every level!
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    fear4freedom wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    Holy shit! This video is like watching insanity at the edge of the apocalypse. I don't know whether to laugh, cry or vomit.
    My natural reaction was to feel disgust for the shoppers (and I still do, of course. What monsters.), but then after a few minutes, I turned by a lot of my disgust towards Wal-Mart for letting it happen year after year, even after they've had a death and injuries to customers from Black Friday stampedes in the past. You'd think they would have learned their lesson and set up company-wide procedures for controlling the crowds.

    There have been mayhem at malls, shopping centers, other stores, etc. There are flash mobs who rob 7/11's, etc. Its not the store.....its the people!

    You are right and you are wrong.

    Businesses and other such organizations have a responsibility to ensure a safe environment for patrons. With very little control over their customers... the store borders on- or maybe even crosses well over into- negligence.

    You always have to account for the morons!
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,910
    edited November 2012
    fear4freedom wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qRs2dBoK0

    Fucking savages.

    Why do stores keep on doing these sales? There are already dozens of videos on YouTube showing out of control shoppers... so why in the hell don't stores do controlled entry, with a monitored line outside of the store, and letting in only a certain number of shoppers at a time? Clubs do it every fucking night. They do it in Canada all the time for Boxing Day Sales.... So why do Americans keep on going for the mob scene? It's weird.

    DUDE I went to Toronto for a weekend for Pearl Jam on 9/11/11 and the place rioted all night long! The mindset is madening! Canadians have losers also, and they all seem to be out after midnight causing the police on horses to risk their lives trying to control the crazy drunkards!
    I never said Canadians don't act like morons. I already mentioned riots in Vancouver. I'm only talking about shopping behaviour.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,910
    Thirty Bills Unpaid wrote:
    fear4freedom wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:

    There have been mayhem at malls, shopping centers, other stores, etc. There are flash mobs who rob 7/11's, etc. Its not the store.....its the people!

    You are right and you are wrong.

    Businesses and other such organizations have a responsibility to ensure a safe environment for patrons. With very little control over their customers... the store borders on- or maybe even crosses well over into- negligence.

    You always have to account for the morons!
    Exactly. I have fully acknowledged that the shoppers are savages. But Walmart not oy let's way way too many people into the store at once, knowing thing can get SK out of control someone could die because its happened to them before, but they also actually purposefully great the conditions for this kind of shit. They have people gather around in a big crowd, hold them I. suspense for a while, and then yell put the price of the product everyone is swarmed around so that the feeding frenzy can begin. It's almost like they're orchestrating some kind of rigged hidden video reality show - when shoppers go wild. Fuck, i've actually seen video taken by peolle who are simply there to watch this happen for entertainment's sake, and Walmart stages the event. Walmart should be forced to stop this shit before another person is killed.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    I would think that by now, people would know what they're (potentially) subjecting themselves to - Wal-Mart or not...and, more importantly, people should and are capable of governing themselves. It's like going to a GA show - if you're not willing to be in a tight space, pushed, shoved, then don't go.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,910
    hedonist wrote:
    I would think that by now, people would know what they're (potentially) subjecting themselves to - Wal-Mart or not...and, more importantly, people should and are capable of governing themselves. It's like going to a GA show - if you're not willing to be in a tight space, pushed, shoved, then don't go.
    Yup... But security/the venue is ultimately responsible for people getting hurt because they let the crowd get put of control, or worse, create an atmosphere that actually promotes stampeding, I.e. getting up on a chair in the middle of the GA crowd and screaming, "PJ merch only $1 right HERE!!!!" Plus, we're talking about the inside of a department store, not a rock concert. If we base how everything is done by what flies at GA rock concerts, then the world will collapse into chaos pretty soon! :lol:
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    hedonist wrote:
    I would think that by now, people would know what they're (potentially) subjecting themselves to - Wal-Mart or not...and, more importantly, people should and are capable of governing themselves. It's like going to a GA show - if you're not willing to be in a tight space, pushed, shoved, then don't go.
    Yup... But security/the venue is ultimately responsible for people getting hurt because they let the crowd get put of control, or worse, create an atmosphere that actually promotes stampeding, I.e. getting up on a chair in the middle of the GA crowd and screaming, "PJ merch only $1 right HERE!!!!" Plus, we're talking about the inside of a department store, not a rock concert. If we base how everything is done by what flies at GA rock concerts, then the world will collapse into chaos pretty soon! :lol:
    I'm not saying to use those same parameters - obviously a different scenario! - but common sense has a place within both. Of course it's incumbent upon those providing that environment to try and ensure safety, but that doesn't give license to folks to then act like out-of-control assholes.

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