In LA, a woman pepper sprayed other customers so she could get first dibs on the 10 PM Black Friday Wal-Mart specials.

She's still at large.

Sick.  Just sick.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-thursday-shopping-20111125,0,757801.story?track=rss

Some idiot fired shots at a mall in North Carolina

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/detectives-investigate-shooting-at-nc-mall-as-early-shoppers-arrive-no-injuries/2011/11/25/gIQAueOtuN_story.html

Here's an updated article:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/at-wal-mart-pepper-spray-attack-triggered-chaos-screaming.html

"Competitive shopping" my ass.  The kids don't need a X Box THAT badly.

Sadly, I'm not surprised. And I've seen things just as bad at my old jobs the day after Thanksgiving. My views on "the holidays" are probably beyond jaded at this point.

A man collapsed while doing some Black Friday shopping in a crowded store, and people nearby continued to shop.

Witnesses tell WSAZ.com some shoppers walked around and even over the man's body.

http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/Man_Dies_on_Black_Friday_Shoppers_Unfazed_134507443.html

I just read that, Josi.  Wasn't it just last year that the Wal-Mart in the same area had a riot on Black Friday?

Unbelieveable...

Yeah, I believe so

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/26/justice/arizona-walmart-arrest/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

wow..

"They were just letting people in; there was nowhere to walk," said his daughter, Berneta Sanchez, who was also in the store. "Teenagers and adults were fighting for these games, taking them away from little kids and away from my father."

The suspect's grandson, Nicholas Nava, told CNN affiliate <span style="color: #004276;">KNXV that Newman had grabbed one video game and put it under his shirt so that others jostling for the game didn't take it from him. One person alerted a police officer, who then approached Newman.

David Chadd, a CNN iReporter from Las Vegas, was among the crowd shopping for video games set up in the Walmart's grocery section. He said Newman "was not resisting" arrest as he was led away from the crowd by a police officer.

That officer, Chadd said, then suddenly hooked the suspect around the leg, grabbed him and "slammed him face first into the ground."

"It was like a bowling ball hitting the ground, that's how bad it was," he said.

Madness, I tell you.

The pepper sprayer turned herself in:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/lapd-no-decision-yet-on-charges-in-walmart-pepper-spraying.html