Black Friday Body Count: Sometimes The Target Is You

Shopper carrying TV home from Target shot in Las Vegas I’ve never been shot in the Las Vegas, but I bet it hurts. Police Lt. David Gordon says the victim was carrying the TV at an apartment complex when a suspect fired warning shots, prompting him to drop the appliance. Gordon says the robber snatched the …

Black Friday Body Count: Some People Try Shoplifting. It Goes Poorly

I don’t know why more people don’t try the shoplifting thing on Black Friday. I mean it’s not exactly known as a time of year when security is at its best, so you’d think it might be a little easier provided nobody beats you up and takes what you’re taking. I don’t know if that’s …

Black Friday Body Count: Sometimes The One Who Brings A Knife To A Gunfight Wins

Remember, it’s not just merchandise and a good spot in line that are worth fighting over on this most joyous of trumped up holidays. After all, if you can’t park, you can’t do either of those things. Sheriff Brian Hieatt tells WVVA it happened in the Walmart parking lot. He says two men, 61-year-old Ronnie …

Black Friday Body Count: Canadian Black Friday Is Lame, As Is Fighting Over TVs

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the annual shopping craze that’s sweeping the United States and because we have to do everything they do but with the sad and lame factor cranked up to 11, Canada. Yes, it’s Black Friday. And yes, we have it in Canada now. I don’t know what it’s like in …

Black Friday Body Count: More Riot Videos And A Mostly Unrelated Bit About The Grey Cup, Just Because I Can

To the list of those with a Black Friday riot video compilation we can now add Canoe. Some of these you may have already seen if you’ve been following along, but there’s some new stuff, like a couple of stampedes at Victoria’s Secret. Psssst, I know what the secret is, Victoria. Your customers are retarded. …

Black Friday Body Count: See? I Told You That Concealed Weapon Permit Would Come In Handy One Day

From a Sears in San Antonio, Texas comes this tale of line cutting, punches and firearms. In related news, people still shop at Sears. Who knew? Sgt. Rob Carey said that a man was trying to cut his way to the front of the line, which didn’t sit well with his fellow shoppers, according to …

Black Friday Body Count: I Stab People

As if we needed it, here’s proof positive that Black Friday shoppers are idiots. An unidentified man in a Sacramento K-Mart line threatened to get all stabby on people for some reason, and the crowd just laughed at him. You know, because that’s the proper response when a strange man says such things in a …

Black Friday Body Count: Some Photos And Some Skill Testing Questions

This won’t do me any good, but since a lot of you really like pictures, here’s a little something they’re calling Black Friday In 41 Absolutely Horrifying Photos. Whoever did this wrote just enough to make it into something I really wish I could look at. If any of the good describers around here want …

Black Friday Body Count: 51 Is A More Important Number Than 2

51 is the number of inches the TV that Anthony Perry managed to lug home from a Black Friday sale is in size. 2 is the age of the child he abandoned in a car while he was busy doing that. Police, alerted by store security, found the boy asleep in the vehicle in a …

Black Friday Body Count: Play-Doh. For Real

A website called Strange Beaver is also gathering Black Friday videos. I wish my blind self could access the videos, because I’d really like to see the Play-Doh Pillage. I think that blows towels out of the water. In other news, I’ve made the beginnings of a Black Friday category. I’m sure Carin and her …