fiyah pon "black fryday"

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y oyinbo called itt "black friday?"

iss itt cah dem encouraginn evereewan fe impluse shop ann spend like fools?

misgivinn familee ting wass sharter dan narmal cah sum peeps wanted fe gitt a early tart pon shoppinn. mii add sum relatives visitinn fram jamaica wey ask mii bout iff mii wood tekk dem shappinn. mii look inna dem face ann told dem fe gwey otta mii face widd dem foolishness

soo let chatt bout dem out cantrol spendinn freak wey aggoo spend wey dem cyaan afford

fiyah ann more fiyah pon oyinbo "black friday"

[Cultcha]

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Wasn't it a couple of years ago when smaddy get trampled to death at a WalMart on Black Friday.

Now dis....

<span style="font-size: 20pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Customers hit by pepper spray at Wal-Mart describe scene of ch</span>aos</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">Matthew Lopez went to the Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch on Thursday night for the Black Friday sale but instead was caught in a pepper-spray attack by a woman who authorities said was &quot;competitive shopping.&quot;
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Lopez described a chaotic scene in the San Fernando Valley store among shoppers looking for video games soon after the sale began.

&quot;I heard screaming and I heard yelling,&quot; said Lopez, 18. &quot;Moments later, my throat stung. I was coughing really bad and watering up.&quot;

Lopez said customers were already in the store when a whistle signaled the start of the Black Friday sale at 10 p.m., sending shoppers hurtling in search of deeply discounted items.

Lopez said that by the time he arrived at the video games, the display had been torn down. Employees attempted to hold back the scrum of shoppers and pick up merchandise even as customers trampled the video games and DVDs strewn on the floor.

&quot;It was absolutely crazy,&quot; he said.

Another customer said screams erupted after about 100 people waiting in line to snag Xbox gaming consoles and Wii video games got into a shoving match.

Alejandra Seminario, 24, said she was waiting in line to grab some toys at the store around 9:55 p.m. when people the next aisle over started shouting and ripping at the plastic wrap encasing gaming consoles, which was supposed to be opened at 10 p.m.

<span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;People started screaming, pulling and pushing each other, and then the whole area filled up with pepper spray,&quot; the Sylmar resident said. &quot;I guess what triggered it was people started pulling the plastic off the pallets and then shoving and bombarding the display of games. It started with people pushing and screaming because they were getting shoved onto the boxes.&quot;
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<span style="font-weight: bold">The pepper spray wafted through the air, Seminario said, and she breathed some in and started coughing. Her face also started itching.
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&quot;I did not want to get involved. I was too scared. I just stayed in the toy aisle,&quot; she said.

By the time she and her husband, 27-year-old Cesar Seminario, got to the cash register 20 minutes later with a Wii gaming console and some Barbie dolls, the air was still smelling of pepper spray, she said.

Wal-Mart employees were taking statements near the front of the store from about eight customers who had been pepper-sprayed, Seminario said. &quot;After we paid, we saw five that were in really bad shape,&quot; she said. &quot;They had been sprayed in the face, it looked like, and they had swelling of the face, really extreme swelling of face, redness, coughing.&quot;

Nakeasha Contreras, 20, of North Hollywood, said she arrived at midnight and hadn't heard what happened. Even if she had, she said, she wouldn't have minded: &quot;I don't care. I'm still getting my TV. I've never seen Wal-Mart so crazy, but I guess it could have been worse.&quot;

Joseph Poulose, who said he was hit with the spray near the DVD and video games display, criticized the store for failing to control the crowds.

&quot;There were way too many people in a building that size. Every aisle was full,&quot; he said. Customers were stomping on photo frames and other items on the floor, said Poulose, who tried to protect his pregnant wife from the throng of shoppers inside.

&quot;It was definitely the worst Black Friday I’ve ever experienced,&quot; he said.

[Tulip]

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

It's called Black Friday because traditionally the day after Thanksgiving has been the biggest shopping day of the year, and stores that were in the red all year typically go into the black.

[ILP]

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

so what happened to the woman who was competitive shopping? she was able to buy har things or them arrest har?

[Cultcha]

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

If people are trampling each other and attacking using pepper spray to get a discount on video games, how much worse is it going to get when the bottom falls out and reality hits and they can't afford food?

[Tulip]

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

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kotch_Foot_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Wasn't it a couple of years ago when smaddy get trampled to death at a WalMart on Black Friday...</div></div>

Yeah, that was around 07 or 08 in NYC I think.

I went that out that year at 4:40 in the morning to Target. My parents were visiting, and my got it on her mind that she wanted this Westinghouse LCD tv for $249. Believe me, there was nothing else I could do but put my coat on and hit the road.

i will give Target credit for having an orderly process. As you arrived, there was an employee outside who gave you vouchers for the item(s) you wanted until the quantity they had in stock was reached. You had until 10:30 am to come get your items, or they would be released back on the floor.

[Tulip]

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

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kotch_Foot_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If people are trampling each other and attacking using pepper spray to get a discount on video games, how much worse is it going to get when the bottom falls out and reality hits and they can't afford food?

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I don't really know anyone who goes hungry because they bought some Christmas gifts on sale on Black Friday. I know plenty who pockets get tight after the 1st of the year when those long forgotten holiday bills start rolling in though.

People who I know on the verge of going hungry are more worried about keeping the utilities on than shopping. Sadly, it's a miracle if their children get a needed pair of shoes much less the latest video game for Christmas.

[Gen]

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Whose bottom ? The consumer ? You do know that no one is forcing them to spend money they don't have right ?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kotch_Foot_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If people are trampling each other and attacking using pepper spray to get a discount on video games, how much worse is it going to get when the bottom falls out and reality hits and they can't afford food?

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police taser shopper &quot;black fryday&quot;

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kotch_Foot_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If people are trampling each other and attacking using pepper spray to get a discount on video games, how much worse is it going to get when the bottom falls out and reality hits and they can't afford foof?</div></div>




Florence Police say they had to use a taser to get an unruly customer under control during Black Friday shopping.

It happened just before midnight at the Wal-Mart off Cox Creek Parkway.

Investigators tell WAAY 31 that 22 year old Christopher Blake Pyron was charged with public intoxication, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. According to police, Pyron was stumbling and grabbing items and causing a scene in the busy store. An officer tried to get Pyron to calm down, and tried to take him somewhere less crowded. According to investigators, Pyron jerked away and swung at the officer. At that point, the officer grabbed his taser and shot Pyron, taking him to the ground.

A shopper snapped a photo of the ensuing scene and posted it to Twitter soon after.

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<span style="font-weight: bold">While no deaths were reported in this year's shopping, authorities said they handled fights, shootings and other incidents through the morning.

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.</span>

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[blugiant]

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

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tulip</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's called Black Friday because traditionally the day after Thanksgiving has been the biggest shopping day of the year, and stores that were in the red all year typically go into the black. </div></div>


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Black Friday was first used by police in Philadelphia in the 1960s to describe the massive crowds and traffic jams that hit the sales after Thanksgiving. It wasn't until the 1980s that an alternative theory started to appear, suggesting that it was the day that marked retailers moving from the red to the black, as they started made profits for the first time in the year.</div></div>

da qwestian iss y wen babylon saw massive crowd ann traffic jam dem tarted fe cawl itt blakk friday? racism ting?

[Suesumba]

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

america is the great satan and the population mere minions.

[blugiant]

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

Hot dog car in Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade USA 1951 - by 1966 police in the city had dubbed it 'Black Friday' because of the chaos caused by crowds.






























<span style="font-weight: bold">
Black Friday: how the day got its name

Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.
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It is said to refer to the day that retailers start going into profit - or the black in accounting speak. However, the name has not alway had such positive connotations.

<span style="font-weight: bold">The nickname is first said to have been used by the Philadelphia police department in 1966 who saw it as a &quot;black&quot; day because of the chaos created by people flocking to shops in search of bargains.

The later explanation came about as traders and retailers decided they needed one of their most important shopping days to be seen it a better light.

By the early 1980s, the story behind the name had been spun into the current one - that it was the time when retailers who traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year start to go into profit.</span>

Many US retailers open very early on &quot;Black Friday&quot;, often at 5am, and offer promotional sales to kick off the shopping season. Although this year, with consumer cutting back struggling retailers have been offering 'Black Friday' deal for weeks and some stores even opened late on Thanksgiving Day to get a jump on rivals.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">america is the great satan and the population mere minions. </div></div>

tapp eeeth

evereewan kno santa iss da great satan dat y imm enslaved de elves ann xxploits de reindeer? dat y imm onlee cum wan a air. mii still tryinn fe figgar out wat typa genettrikk researh dem didd wey mekk rudolph nose redd

[WitchyOoman]

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

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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.