fiyah pon "black fryday"

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: WitchyOoman</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> .
See what Snopes says about Black Friday.

Black Friday isn't the biggest shopping day of the year in terms of money (going from being 'in the red' to 'in the black')... but in terms of the most amount of traffic - humans through the doors of stores.

The whole big shopping day thing started because large numbers of people had the day off from work, and had nothing to do. No football games, many types of businesses closed. These people had nothing to do, so retailers opened their doors and tried to drum up business for the upocoming Christmas holiday sales. </div></div>

mii aa bunn fiyah pon oyinbo &quot;black friday&quot; ann encouraginn peeps natt fe give inna de hype ann nuh spend wey dem doan ave. occupy wallstreet peeps didd a chatt bout boycott blakk friday

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Violence erupted at Black Friday sales across the U.S. with one bargain-hunter left critically injured after being shot during a robbery and 15 other people injured when an angry shopper used pepper spray.

Several of the incidents took place at Wal-Mart stores as millions of Americans loaded up on holiday purchases.

Update 11:57 a.m. ET: An off-duty police officer used pepper spray on shoppers at a Wal-Mart in Kinston, N.C.

Kinston police Sgt. Roland Davis said an off-duty officer whom the store had hired to help with security used the chemical while trying to make an arrest during a disturbance. Unconfirmed reports said as many as 20 peopl ewer affected.

Updated 10:55 a.m. ET: A Rome, N.Y., man was charged with disorderly conduct after a fight that broke out the moment Black Friday shopping began at midnight, NBC station WSTM of Syracuse, N.Y., reported.

Several shoppers at the electronics department at a Wal-Mart store were pushed to the ground, and several fights broke out, Oneida County sheriff’s deputies said. Two shoppers were taken to a hospital for minor injuries.

Updated 10:39 a.m. ET: Police said they were investigating a possible shooting in the parking lot of Valley West Mall in West Des Moines, Iowa, NBC station WHO reported. There was no immediate report that anyone was injured.

Police got a call of shots fired shortly before 4 a.m., when the mall opened. They wouldn’t say whether they had a suspect, and they reassured shoppers that the mall is safe..

Updated 9:50 a.m. ET: A 55-year-old shopper was shot and wounded during a robbery near a Wal-Mart in Myrtle Beach, S.C., NBC station WMBF reported.

Tonia Robbins, 55, was shot in the foot after two men demanded her purse shortly after 1 a.m. ET Friday as she stood by the trunk of her car with friends.

Updated 9:45 a.m. ET: An explosive device was found at a break room at a Wal-Mart in Cave Creek, Ariz., according to reports Friday.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said a suspicious package was found inside a refrigerator in the store break room on Thursday. The store was evacuated as a precaution while deputies investigated the package.

Updated at 9:40 a.m. ET: A Black Friday shopper was shot and critically injured during a robbery outisde a Wal-Mart in San Leandro, Calif., early Friday, police said.

Police patrolling the parking lot found a victim suffering a gunshot wound and a possible suspect being detained by family members of the victim.

Police said the victims were walking to their car with their purchases and were approached by multiple suspects who demanded the merchandise.

A fight ensued and one suspect pulled out a gun and shot one of the victims. Some of the victims wrestled down one suspect as the other suspect fled the scene.

The victim who was shot is in critical but stable condition at a local hospital. The suspect in custody is an adult male in his mid ’20s, but it is not known if he was the shooter.

Updated at 7.30 a.m. ET: An angry woman used pepper spray when Black Friday bargain-hunters tried to cut in line at a crowded Wal-Mart store in Los Angeles late Thursday, leaving 15 people with minor injuries. The incident occurred shortly after 10:20 p.m. PT (1:20 a.m. ET Friday) in the San Fernando Valley as shoppers looking for deals were let inside the outlet.

Shawn Lenske, a Los Angeles fire department spokesman, said the injuries were due to “rapid crowd movement.”

Video uploaded to youTube shows shopper recovering after one woman allegedly doused them in pepper spray as they battled for bargains at a Walmart in Los Angeles. NBC’s Kristen Dahlgren reports.

NBC News reported police said no more than 15 were hurt, 10 of them for the effects of inhalation of pepper spray.

Police Lt. Abel Parga said a woman used pepper spray, then left. Parga said police were looking for the woman and no arrests have been made.

“It was an unhappy customer,” he said.

A witness told Los Angeles’ NBC4 that the incident started as people waited in line for the new Xbox 360.

Read more at MSNBC

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Two incidents of Black Friday violence we’re following, the first one in Los Angeles via HuffingtonPost:

LOS ANGELES — A woman shot pepper spray to keep shoppers from merchandise she wanted during a Black Friday sale, and 20 people suffered minor injuries, authorities said.

The incident occurred shortly after 10:20 p.m. Thursday in a crowded Los Angeles-area Walmart as shoppers hungry for deals were let inside the store.

Police said the suspect shot the pepper spray when the coverings over the items she wanted were removed.

“Somehow she was trying to use it to gain an upper hand,” police Lt. Abel Parga told The Associated Press early Friday.

And the second in North Carolina via Associated Press:

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Authorities say gunfire erupted at a North Carolina mall as holiday shoppers gathered, though there are no reports of any injuries.

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office says detectives are looking for two suspects after gunfire rang out at Cross Creek Mall in Fayetteville early Friday.

The first shots were fired around 2 a.m. outside the mall near a food court entrance. Investigators say several more shots were fired after one of the suspects ran inside the mall.

Black Friday is important to merchants because it kicks off the holiday shopping season, a time when they can make 25 to 40 percent of their annual revenue. It’s expected that shoppers will spend nearly $500 billion during the holiday shopping season, or about 3 percent more than they did last year.

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Re: fiyah pon &quot;black fryday&quot;

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
mii aa bunn fiyah pon oyinbo &quot;black friday&quot; ann encouraginn peeps natt fe give inna de hype ann nuh spend wey dem doan ave. occupy wallstreet peeps didd a chatt bout boycott blakk friday </div></div>
Don't misunderstand me, Blakkgiant; I don't like the entire concept of spending what one hasn't got from Black Friday through Christmas Day, and going into a three- or four-month debt one can't crawl out of 'til April. I say it's B-S to do that. Besides, that's not what Christmas is all about.

Christmas is about the birth of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, for believers... and it's nothing at all for nonbelievers. Watch me burn fire when Christmas comes closer about how the season is twisted into something it was never meant to be. When I get to that point, it's gonna be one helluva big fire I burn! I <span style="font-weight: bold">hate</span> how commercialized Christmas has become!

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Re: fiyah pon &quot;black fryday&quot;

mass media mind-control ting a gwaan...yu seet

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">mass media mind-control ting a gwaan...yu seet </div></div>

yu seeth dat y mii quote de psychologist wey see da game. da joke iss dat sum peeps doan realized dat peeps gittinn better deal pon sum items de closer itt gitt to x-mas

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Psychologist Jeff Gardere, in an appearance Friday on CNN, put some of the blame on retailers for staging sales that encourage hyper-competitive behavior among shoppers who may be desperate because of the poor economy.

&quot;They shouldn't be pschying them up so much and using all sorts of psychological tactics to get them to feed into this desperation and competitive spirit,&quot; he said.

&quot;I think people are whipped into a frenzy, physically, psychologically,&quot; he said.</div></div>

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I have to say .. I do not get the whole concept of this black Friday madniss.
Mi neva si anyting pan sale dat mi &quot;have to get!&quot; right away orelse the sky ago fall.
Most of these items that people get pepper sprayed over drop in prices just the same a week before the holiday or give in a year or two and dem come down dirt cheap.

Mi cyaan tek di excitement.. it noh wort it to mi..wos like how di people dem only stock 5 item pan di shelf more time , knowing bloody well dem ago cause a massacre fi di tings if a 100,000 people a fight fi di 5 TV.