Black eye Friday for Wal-Mart: Pepper sprays, stun guns, beatings, shooting, fights, did I miss any?

[Electric Monk]

Police body slam leaves grandpa bloody, unconscious at Wal-Mart
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5070668

Black Friday shopper shot in botched robbery outside East Bay Walmart
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5070657

Off-duty police pepper spray NC Walmart shoppers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2379260

Black Friday Shopper Pepper-Sprays at Wal-Mart
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2378769

Black (eye) Friday at a Central New York Walmart
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2378493

Women brawl at Walmart nail salon video
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2379207

Conn. police use stun gun on Wal-Mart customer
http://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/conn-police-use-stun-gun-on-wal-mart-customer-1.3346360
(added thanks to jpak)




Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. - Yogi berra

[sabrina 1]

1. Disgusting, and China thanks them all.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. I won't set foot inside a Wal-Mart.

Our main Wal-Mart here has just done a HUGE expansion, with all the groceries and so on, but I'm not tempted. Costco for me.

[Cleita]

3. Me neither.

Besides the high minded purpose of boycotting the beast, I frankly feel scared and uneasy about my safety when I'm in one.

[MoonRiver]

4. This is totally out of control!

Soon only sociopaths and/or criminals will set foot in a store on BF.

[Initech]

5. Meanwhile the Waltons open a $2 billion art museum in Arkansas. Fuck them!!

[jpak]

6. Yup - this one in CT

Conn. police use stun gun on Wal-Mart customer

http://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/conn-police-use-stun-gun-on-wal-mart-customer-1.3346360

Police use stun gun on Wal-Mart shopper in Milford, Conn., who punched another customer.

(AP) -- A police officer in Milford, Conn., used a stun gun on a Wal-Mart shopper who allegedly punched another customer.

Police say 26-year-old Brian Shellnutt hit another shopper as they waited in line to buy video games late Thursday night. He allegedly ignored an officer's warning to stop fighting before the officer used the electronic device on him.

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[dixiegrrrrl]

16. " I went to Wal-Mart and all I got was Tased" t-shirts coming right up.

[begin_within]

7. Pepper spray your customers - the new trend in Customer Relations!

[LiberalEsto]

8. Jesus wept

And this is for a holiday when people supposedly give one another gifts in memory of the Three Wise Men who brought gifts to the Christ Child...

:argh:

[Tsiyu]

18. In the name of The " Prince of Peace" no less! n/t

[SomethingFishy]

9. It's.. It's... The War On Christmas...

Somehow I doubt O'Reilly will discuss this as part of his "war on christmas".

Spraying shoppers with Mace.. GOOD! Saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas... BAD.

[L0oniX]

13. It's more like ...the war that Christmas brings out.

[PM Martin]

10. Sad.

[RufusTFirefly]

11. An extra WTF for the stun gun incident

For those who don't recall, stun guns were originally sold to the public (and to police departments) as a non-lethal alternative to real guns. Not as quick fix solutions for police who are too dim or lazy or inexperienced to actually do their jobs. You mean to tell me that if he didn't have a stun gun that the cop would've actually pulled out his service revolver and shot the guy who was fighting in line?

Talk about mission creep...

[L0oniX]

12. Christmas is such a wonderful time of the year ...ain't it?

[The Genealogist]

14. By Faux Snooze logic, they aren't pepper spraying customers

they are giving them food samples, essentially!

[maryellen99]

19. Right Wingers are blaming Obama for this

Because they claim he tanked the economy snd this is the reason people are going nuts on BF and rioting...Idiots.

Don't they remember the riots over Cabbage Patch Dolls(under Reagan)and Walmart laptops(under bush)?

[JoeyT]

20. I don't remember the Cabbage Patch riots.

It was before my time. I do remember the Tickle Me Elmo and Beanie Baby riots, though.

Man we're screwed up.

[TNLib]

22. Ah the Beanie Baby Riots! those were the days!

nt

[The Genealogist]

30. Of course they are

They want to be reelected and will lie, cheat and steal to do it. Few morals, despite the fact that they masquerade as the morally supreme.

I do remember people going insane over the Cabbage Patch Kids. It was on the news, and I remember adults talking about the nonsense that was going on with people trying to get one of those dolls. The dolls were targeted at people about my age at that time, and for children a little younger. I remember lots of the girls in my class had them, and talked about them all the time. Every year, it seems, there is some "must have" toy for kids that millions of parents turn crazy in trying to get for their tykes. Half the time, the kids are done playing with whatever that must-have toy is before their parents are singing Auld Lang Syne for New Year's Day.

[fascisthunter]

15. it's all disgusting

[cherokeeprogressive]

17. Meh. Agents Provocateurs intending to discredit Walmart more than they are already. n/t

[TNLib]

21. It's weird all this crap happens at Walmart.

I went to bestbyuy, target, gamestop and costcos. No mobs no long lines in any store plenty of parking. But I went after 12 PM so maybe all the crazy happened last night.

[maryellen99]

27. I went to Target around 5:30 pm

I went and got my mom's stocking gifts-My Brother and I do it for her ever since my dad died 7 years ago. It wasn't too bad-the only part of the store that was busy was Electronics.

[AntiFascist]

23. It's all just part of anarcho-capitalism n/t

[Scurrilous]

24. Watch the Great Black Friday Two-Dollar Waffle Iron Riot

http://gawker.com/5862628/watch-the-great-black-friday-two+dollar-waffle-iron-riot?autoplay

[LiberalEsto]

26. Oops, you beat me!

Amazing, isn't it?

[Scurrilous]

28. It's hilarious.

:thumbsup:

[LiberalEsto]

25. Here's another one: Fight over waffle irons

I read this on RawStory.
The video is unbelievable.
Women who look like they shouldn't even be EATING waffles, screaming and battling for waffle irons.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/25/wal-mart-shoppers-riot-over-two-dollar-waffle-irons/

[The Genealogist]

31. No doubt the plan for the some of the people going crazy over them

is to get them cheap so they can sell them at a mark-up on E-bay or Craigs List or whatever people are selling stuff on these days.

[Glimmer of Hope]

29. There could not be a better way to start off the holdiay season!

Peace and Joy.

[dana_b]

32. stay the hell away from Wal Mart!!!

holy crap.... literally people are getting seriously hurt over crap.