Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year.
It's also the most dangerous shopping day of the year. If you plan on going, make sure that you are aware of your surroundings and are very careful, because this is no joke!
The sales are huge, and you can get away with basically stealing a $100 item with the low prices. However, those low prices, too, come at a cost.
There have been tales for years about folks getting punched or trampled in the name of a good deal. In these 15 horror stories, everyone ended up perfectly safe and alright in the end — thankfully. That's the only reason I was able to laugh at them. They are almost too ridiculous to believe, but people really do get into a strange state of mind on this huge shopping day.
On a lighter note, this dog shelter had a much better Black Friday than the folks in the stories below.
Do you ever participate in Black Friday? Has anything like the stories below ever happened to you?
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"Back in my poor college days when I worked in retail, we had a fight break out over a bike. Fists were thrown and there was some blood. Eventually, one guy got ahold of it and managed to get away from the crowd. He rode the bike out of the store to flee his pursuers (without paying)." – KnowMatter
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"One of the sale items was a $10 calculator marked down to $5. Two sweet, elderly women came in to the store looking for them. When I told them there was only one left in the display, it was ON.
"The one grandma who lost the race called the other one a [very rude name] as she was standing in the checkout line, gripping her $5 prize.
"I always imagined some little kid opening presents on Christmas morning and getting this stupid $5 calculator, not really wanting it and having no clue about the back story behind it, as his grandma, sipping her tea, looks on with a triumphant gleam in her eye." – Jsquaw
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"Someone punched a security guard in the face because he thought he was a customer skipping to the front of the line… he was just walking in the door to start his shift." — Reddit User
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"We didn't open early like the rest of the stores because we are a restaurant and well, we don't serve breakfast.
"Had people shake our gates screaming that they wanted food. It would be just me and an opener getting the chairs set out.
"I pointed them towards the food court and told them we didn't serve breakfast. A lady spit at me and told me 'I know you have bacon.'
"We do. In a fridge waiting to be cooked and put on a burger." – Kidou
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"A couple years ago, when the sale started, there was a surge of people trying to get their stuff. One lady got knocked down and her pen went straight into her neck, thankfully missing the jugular. The messed up part is no one tried to help — they just walked over her to get their deal items.
"An associate that saw it happen had to stand over her to protect her from getting trampled. When the ambulance crew arrived they had to literally shove people out of the way because no one would move." – wildcard084
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"During the madness one Black Friday morning, we caught a woman stuffing the inside of her pants with frozen lobster tail. She would un-package them and throw the trash in a stack of tires that were on display." – Nickdubs
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"I worked when [a new gaming system] came out. The second we unlocked the doors, s**t was a riot. People were fighting one another, swearing, crying — just about everything. People were so desperate, when people managed to get one, somebody would throw the other person to the ground and buy it." – Reddit User
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"Our manager thought he was particularly smart, winding the line through our appliance department. Well, we get a complaint from one of our patrons. After checking the dryers, we find a nice turd in one — good size solid constancy just sitting there. A lady who did not want to lose her spot opened the dryer, and pooped right there in front of everyone. I decided that day even though I may want stuff, I will never poop in front of an entire crowd of people for a $799.50" plasma TV." – Dave_Versus_Volcano
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"I was assigned to be one of the employees that would cut open the plastic on the pallets, which contained our merchandise, which were all in the floor. Basically, as I readied the box cutter, I got shoved by a customer and I fell right on it and sliced my hand open. After getting through that and patching it up, I came out on the floor and promptly got punched in the face when I picked up a DVD on the ground. A customer apparently wanted it." – Wildfires
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"Working in the electronics dept. A little old lady punched a teenage boy in the face to get the last radio he had picked up. She snatched it up and ran." – lezbatron
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"Guy tried to shove a Blu-ray player into the front of his jeans. He was a rather large man, but dude, it's a Blu-ray player, seriously." – gointhefridge
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"Someone ran into a transformer nearby and took out the power to the whole retail block. Everyone who had items they wanted to purchase (several hundred people) had to just sit down and chill out for around an hour and a half while we waited for the power to return." – zahngol
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"We were running late. At about a minute after 12, the people outside started pushing on the door and cursing at my manager. The door pushed inward but didn't actually open. Problem was… the people at the back of the crowd thought it did so they started pushing and the people at the front started being crushed against the door.
"When my manager saw this, she immediately opened it up and about 5 people at the front spilled onto the floor and the rest of the people behind them started trampling over them. They were okay though because they were all young guys and I saw them shopping a few minutes later." – HaberdasherA
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"I watched a woman collapse in hysterics into my manager's arms because we didn't have the exact model of cooler she wanted. Thanksgiving must be a stressful time in her family." – IUsedToBeSomebody
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"An 80-year-old grandma tackled and then bear-maced a woman over fleece fabric at my store." – Dothelokipokie
I've never been to a Black Friday sale, but after this, I know that I never, ever will. Please SHARE with your family and friends on Facebook!
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