A store in Moscow advertised laptops for 80% off. The catch? There were only 10 of them. The resulting ruckus makes our Black Friday clusterfucks look like tea parties. [LiveLeak via Random Good Stuff]
This is what Microsoft didn’t tell you about last Black Friday sales: Nintendo sold 800,000 in the week of Black Friday, besting the Xbox 360 and the PS3. According to Nintendo Presidential Vampire Satoru Iwata:
We already know that the people involved in the trampling death of Jdimytai Damour on Black Friday were deplorable, but few could have imagined how bad things really were.
According to our recent poll, only 12% of respondents blame Walmart for the tragic death of a 34 year old employee in the Black Friday rush. But when it comes to lawsuits, money talks.
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Above: a video of a bunch of dealcrazed shoppers decimating a pallet of Xbox 360 Guitar Hero bundles at Walmart on Black Friday. Below: a time lapse video of a bunch of ants eating a dead gecko. I don’t think any further analysis is necessary, do you?
News sources report that in Palm Desert, California, two men were killed in a shooting inside a Toys R Us. A total of three have been reported as arrested, including one juvenile.
OK, Black Friday has officially gotten out of hand. A 34-year-old WalMart employee was trying to hold back the crowds at a Long Island store this morning at 5am, when they took the doors off their hinges and stormed the store. The man fell down and was trampled by over 200 people as he gasped for air. It’s sad and despicable, and it’s equally the fault of the dehumanised shoppers and the WalMart store it happened at.
Today is Black Friday, a day dedicated to our basest and most pathetic inclinations. The day after giving thanks for all that we have, we turn around and jump through horrible hoops to accumulate more at the insistence of sleazy, desperate retailers. It’s a nice summation of everything wrong with this country and the holiday season, an appropriately named cancerous mark on our calendars. Our behaviour today is the sort of thing an alien race would use as justification for our destruction. Let’s run through the specifics, shall we?
AU: Just a note guys – even though we don’t have Black Friday (or Thanksgiving) here in Australia, think of the Boxing Day sales here and you’ll get the same sort of idea as to why we’re doomed.
