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Friday, November 25, 2011

$$$ / Horrors This Is What Naked, Striving, Ugly Humanity Looks Like

Posted by Denis C. Theriault on Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:02 PM

YouTube has a growing and phenomenal collection of Black Friday pandemonium videos from Wal-Marts all across the nation. I've pasted a couple of them here for your own amusement/revulsion. Until I looked a bit more closely at them, I kept thinking they were all the same video of the same redneck riot at the same Wal-Mart. And, in a way, I'm still totally right.

This first one, a melee for $2 waffle irons down in Arkansas, went ebola viral today. No wonder people brought their own goddamned pepper spray. (Dare! Listen to all four videos at once and then take an IQ test! How did you do?)



 

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1
You'd think they were all going for the last loaf of bread back in the old USSR.
Posted by frankieb on November 25, 2011 at 4:06 PM · Report
2
To be fair, though, waffles are pretty damned good.
Posted by Todd Mecklem on November 25, 2011 at 4:21 PM · Report
3
Listen to the incessant shrieking and tell me we didn't evolve from monkeys. Maybe if someone had starting flinging feces, they would have gotten a few more waffle makers.
Posted by theterminizer on November 25, 2011 at 5:06 PM · Report
4
....if black friday is the most exciting time of the year for you, you need to re-evaluate your life.
Posted by ScrumYummy on November 25, 2011 at 6:44 PM · Report
5
Well, its either this, or Burning Man...
Posted by Leaky on November 25, 2011 at 10:42 PM · Report
6
So, riots with people doing actual violence, and not a single riot cop in sight; no baton jabs, no tear gas, no horses charging into the crowd. What, I wonder, makes these scenes so much more acceptable to police than peaceful demonstrations?
Posted by nwspirit on November 26, 2011 at 2:41 AM · Report
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and they ignored the campers outside the stores, too
Posted by randyzpdx on November 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM · Report
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"So, riots with people doing actual violence, and not a single riot cop in sight; no baton jabs, no tear gas, no horses charging into the crowd. What, I wonder, makes these scenes so much more acceptable to police than peaceful demonstrations?"

Goddamn, i could not possibly agree MORE!
Posted by DamosA on November 26, 2011 at 8:18 PM · Report
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NWSpirit and Damosa, you guys know damn well that the cops do not give a shit when poor people inflict violence against each other.

Year after year this happens at Walmarts all across the country, yet they never seem to bother with hiring extra security.
Posted by iceprez on November 26, 2011 at 9:10 PM · Report
10
These ladies do not need to eat more waffles.
Posted by seanpdx on November 27, 2011 at 5:13 AM · Report
11
Heathens.
Posted by Jay B on November 27, 2011 at 5:18 PM · Report
12
ass-crack stuck with it and came out with four. well done.
Posted by eric cantona on November 28, 2011 at 9:52 AM · Report

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