Anyone go Black Friday shopping?

[luv]

Feel free to share any experiences.

Three or four years ago, I went with a friend to Target. Wasn't too bad of an experience, so I decided to participate in Black Friday this year. No Wal-Mart, no Target, no Best Buy, and no Mall. I went to Academy Sports. I had a friend call me at 1am to tell me people were in line when the drove buy. The store wasn't opening until 5am, so I was going to head that way at 3am. Instead, I got there at 1:30, and there were about 25 people in line. I waited in my car until more people started lining up. I froze my hiney off from 2:20am until 5am.

Two good things I got from this experience. One, Christmas shopping for dad is done. Two, I am reminded why I don't do this, so probably won't again.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've been up for 20 1/2 hours, and I have to take my mom out for lunch for her birthday before meeting friends to watch the LSU/Arkansas game. I'm going to bed!

[Hammock Parties]

A Black Friday thread and you didn't tell us what you bought.

Another ****ing Luv Thread

[Bob Dole]

Bob Dole got cold standing in line at the bakery to get to BOGO monkey bread and just came back home.

[BryanBusby]

I took a shit, put a xbox 360 bundle in my online shopping cart and F5'd WMs site until it went through. That took a whopping 5 minutes.

I celebrated by eating pie and watching people do stupid shit on TV.

[kcxiv]

imma order me a 360 from gamestop a bit later, 150 bucks. I need another, i hate moving the one i have from the living room to the bedroom for some family kinect. lol

[cabletech94]

Originally Posted by kcxiv

imma order me a 360 from gamestop a bit later, 150 bucks. I need another, i hate moving the one i have from the living room to the bedroom for some family kinect. lol

that's a great price!

[dirk digler]

Last night was my first time going early Black Friday shopping. Went with the woman to the local Walmart at 10PM. Even in our small town it was a ****ing mad house. I was one of about hundred standing around the $10 video games and at 10PM they were like ****ing vultures ripping shit and just reaching for anything just to get 1 game. Funny thing is I waited and got lucky got the last game that I wanted and I didn't even have to act like madman.

The woman was standing by the $1 bath towels and she said women were literally diving into the boxes head first to get the towels.

people are just ****ing crazy

[Stewie]

For a $2 waffle maker. People are stupid.

[OnTheWarpath15]

I just read a story where some dumb bitch used pepper spray on the crowd so she could get what she wanted.

[TinyEvel]

In Soviet Russia, door bust you!

[kysirsoze]

Just another day in LA...

Customers hit by pepper spray at Wal-Mart describe scene of chaos

November 25, 2011 | 2:26 am 84470Matthew 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 "competitive shopping."

Lopez described a chaotic scene in the San Fernando Valley store among shoppers looking for video games soon after the sale began.

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

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.

"It was absolutely crazy," 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.

"People started screaming, pulling and pushing each other, and then the whole area filled up with pepper spray," the Sylmar resident said. "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."

The pepper spray wafted through the air, Seminario said, and she breathed some in and started coughing. Her face also started itching.

"I did not want to get involved. I was too scared. I just stayed in the toy aisle," 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. "After we paid, we saw five that were in really bad shape," she said. "They had been sprayed in the face, it looked like, and they had swelling of the face, really extreme swelling of face, redness, coughing."

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: "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."

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.

"There were way too many people in a building that size. Every aisle was full," 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.

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

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...screaming.html

[redgoldexpress]

at the wal-mart on 39th st. and 291 in Independence I heard someone was stabbed over a trampoline. at the one on 40 hwy where blue ridge mall used to be they were fighting over video games and a 20 dollar printer.

[kysirsoze]

Originally Posted by Stewie

For a $2 waffle maker. People are stupid.

Fat blue shirt girl should be checking out good deals on belts. Strong ones.

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by Stewie

For a $2 waffle maker. People are stupid.

Good God!

There are a few in there that would make the "best of Walmart" page.

Check out the ditch pig with her pants falling off, that managed to grab 3 or 4 of those things.

[kysirsoze]

Originally Posted by Bwana

Good God!

There are a few in there that would make the "best of Walmart" page.

Check out the ditch pig with her pants falling off, that managed to grab 3 or 4 of those things.

Yep. She's the star of the show for sure.