Black Friday
I'm tired of the hubbub surrounding day-after-Thanksgiving sales. In fast, they should all be either cancelled or highly regulated.
It's insane that people get up at 3 or 4 in the morning to go stand in line in the dark at some store acting like trash, shoving, trampling and maiming people just to get their grubby little paws on some stupid THING. Imagine the scene on Christmas morning when the serene soccer mom watches her children opening gifts that will be forgotten in less than 20 minutes. She can be proud when the kids toss aside the gifts for the boxes (to make a fort) that she only put four people in the hospital in her deranged bargain-induced frenzy this year. I hope that every person who received so much as a scratch sues every store for every penny they have now and will earn in the next ten years.
I am a smart person. I find my deals throughout the year and stash things away so that when the morning after Thanksgiving comes I can be snuggled warm in my bed. There is absolutely no reason for human beings to act like hungry lions fighting over the last antelope on the savannah. I will NEVER be one of these people, no matter the price or the item.
We had a similar scene to this a few weeks ago at the "Grand Re-opening" of our local mall's food court. The mall had this big to-do complete with a marching band, lots of clowns and a thousand gift boxes, a handful of which contained $500 mall gift certificates. Apparantly what they did not have was security. The marching band was supposed to play the customers in through a small passage in a giant gift box that opened. When this actually happened though, the band barely got a note out because people were trampling them resulting in injuries and broken instruments (which are mostly bought by the band members, not the school districts and which can cost hundreds of dollars). There was sheer terror among those kids. People shoved and screamed curses, and one woman "allegedly" punched a small child in the face (it's only allegedly because it hasn't gotten to court yet). From one eyewitness I heard that most of the people who were there causing the melee were the sort who would not have any reason to go to any of the stores in the mall if it weren't potentially free. And for what? The mall management, for their part, said they had no idea that so many people would be there or that they would act like that. They're giving away free stuff and it's 2005 when manners no longer count. What did they THINK would happen? Obvoiusly, they didn't think. Hopefully they will also get sued silly and have to go out of business. The "organizers" for the event should be jailed for criminal mischief and accessory to felony ASSAULT. Maybe they can get cells on the same block with the c**t who punched the kid.
If these idiotic sales must continue for "tradition's" sake, I suggest that the stores start taking names the week before Thanksgiving. If a person wants to shop early on Black Friday, they must sign up for the privilege, giving their name,address, driver's liscense number, etc. Then on Friday morning they can go to the store and find out which position their ticket has drawn through a random lottery system. They will be let into the store 10 tickets at a time in 10 minute intervals after ID's have been checked. Have plenty of uniformed police on hand WITH GUNS and if anyone gets disorderly they are immediately escorted from the premises. No excuses. It sounds really restrictive but hopefully most people will decide it just isn't worth the hassle to go out. If they do decide to go it will be almost impossible for them to act like anything less than dignified human beings.
I'm tired of the hubbub surrounding day-after-Thanksgiving sales. In fast, they should all be either cancelled or highly regulated.
It's insane that people get up at 3 or 4 in the morning to go stand in line in the dark at some store acting like trash, shoving, trampling and maiming people just to get their grubby little paws on some stupid THING. Imagine the scene on Christmas morning when the serene soccer mom watches her children opening gifts that will be forgotten in less than 20 minutes. She can be proud when the kids toss aside the gifts for the boxes (to make a fort) that she only put four people in the hospital in her deranged bargain-induced frenzy this year. I hope that every person who received so much as a scratch sues every store for every penny they have now and will earn in the next ten years.
I am a smart person. I find my deals throughout the year and stash things away so that when the morning after Thanksgiving comes I can be snuggled warm in my bed. There is absolutely no reason for human beings to act like hungry lions fighting over the last antelope on the savannah. I will NEVER be one of these people, no matter the price or the item.
We had a similar scene to this a few weeks ago at the "Grand Re-opening" of our local mall's food court. The mall had this big to-do complete with a marching band, lots of clowns and a thousand gift boxes, a handful of which contained $500 mall gift certificates. Apparantly what they did not have was security. The marching band was supposed to play the customers in through a small passage in a giant gift box that opened. When this actually happened though, the band barely got a note out because people were trampling them resulting in injuries and broken instruments (which are mostly bought by the band members, not the school districts and which can cost hundreds of dollars). There was sheer terror among those kids. People shoved and screamed curses, and one woman "allegedly" punched a small child in the face (it's only allegedly because it hasn't gotten to court yet). From one eyewitness I heard that most of the people who were there causing the melee were the sort who would not have any reason to go to any of the stores in the mall if it weren't potentially free. And for what? The mall management, for their part, said they had no idea that so many people would be there or that they would act like that. They're giving away free stuff and it's 2005 when manners no longer count. What did they THINK would happen? Obvoiusly, they didn't think. Hopefully they will also get sued silly and have to go out of business. The "organizers" for the event should be jailed for criminal mischief and accessory to felony ASSAULT. Maybe they can get cells on the same block with the c**t who punched the kid.
If these idiotic sales must continue for "tradition's" sake, I suggest that the stores start taking names the week before Thanksgiving. If a person wants to shop early on Black Friday, they must sign up for the privilege, giving their name,address, driver's liscense number, etc. Then on Friday morning they can go to the store and find out which position their ticket has drawn through a random lottery system. They will be let into the store 10 tickets at a time in 10 minute intervals after ID's have been checked. Have plenty of uniformed police on hand WITH GUNS and if anyone gets disorderly they are immediately escorted from the premises. No excuses. It sounds really restrictive but hopefully most people will decide it just isn't worth the hassle to go out. If they do decide to go it will be almost impossible for them to act like anything less than dignified human beings.
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