Walmart Black Friday Fighting Over Phones During 2012, American People Act Like Animals (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O6IMYSSs7c#)
Good times. I think I saw Honey Boo Boos mother in that pile. :popcorn: :popcorn:
:popcorn: :popcorn: Omg im looking into this way too much. At 1:10 an elderly women0 bites a guys hand for trying to take her stuff. LOLOLOLLOLOLOLL this is so twisted.
omgomg this is actually disgusting to watch people act like this :(
The people of the wal-mart
And the sad part is that's just the tip of the ice berg. I'm also glad I don't work at Wal-Mart. I would not be able to handle that crap.
This.
This makes the Stanley Cup Riot and football riots in the United Kingdom look tame by comparison.
: Tef November 29, 2012, 08:05:02 -07:00
This.
This makes the Stanley Cup Riot and football riots in the United Kingdom look tame by comparison.
and yet they were being all "shame on you canada for being crazy!"
I find this both humorous and horrifying :|
What really freaks me out about all of the videos of Black Friday is how they're acting over stuff that they only want and don't actually need.
Now what the heck will happen in North America if people are fighting over things they actually need? Like water, food, medicine? It's really scary how fast society would crumble if it ever faced a problem like that.
: Nibi November 29, 2012, 11:21:02 -07:00
What really freaks me out about all of the videos of Black Friday is how they're acting over stuff that they only want and don't actually need.
Now what the heck will happen in North America if people are fighting over things they actually need? Like water, food, medicine? It's really scary how fast society would crumble if it ever faced a problem like that.
Hehe yea well thats a great example of if shit hits the fan then its up to us furs to make a pack. :P Make a vanguard of shopping carts and claim our path towards the furbies of 2024 :P.
: Nibi November 29, 2012, 11:21:02 -07:00
What really freaks me out about all of the videos of Black Friday is how they're acting over stuff that they only want and don't actually need.
Now what the heck will happen in North America if people are fighting over things they actually need? Like water, food, medicine? It's really scary how fast society would crumble if it ever faced a problem like that.
People get like that over the most trivial things, it has something to do with some psychology thing that I'm too sleep deprived to think about right now (I haven't slept yet and it's almost 9am) it's amusing to observe in yourself though.
I definitely agree though, if we lost our life of luxury and had any kind of real hardship, the shit would hit the fan.
: Tef November 29, 2012, 08:05:02 -07:00
This makes the Stanley Cup Riot and football riots in the United Kingdom look tame by comparison.
: Sevrin November 30, 2012, 09:45:37 -07:00
People get like that over the most trivial things...
<.< >.>
... It's the same thing at a different venue.
People honestly disgust me right to my core some days, almost to the point I don't see them as people, just slightly more sentient live stock. Lets follow up a day of thanks with a day of pure greed, that sounds so western society that even as poignant as an witty observation as it is, it makes one die a little inside as well.
Go to a pig farm, throw a bunch of old food out in front of them, open the gates... same end result. same fleshy blobs crashing into each other, all piling on where the goods are with seeming little self awareness.
Okay, yeah, this is absolutely horrifying and ridiculous... but can we not with the US-bashing? :| It's not the entire country that's like that, and--on a personal level--I don't much appreciate having my birth nation being generalized as such.
This is downright disgusting, I didn't even get 40 seconds into the video.
: Tosca December 01, 2012, 01:03:42 -07:00
Okay, yeah, this is absolutely horrifying and ridiculous... but can we not with the US-bashing? :| It's not the entire country that's like that, and--on a personal level--I don't much appreciate having my birth nation being generalized as such.
Here here. Not so much with the birth-nation thing, but people are disgusting everywhere.
: Tosca December 01, 2012, 01:03:42 -07:00
Okay, yeah, this is absolutely horrifying and ridiculous... but can we not with the US-bashing? :|
I think most of the comments have been pretty "what the hell is wrong with us" rather than "what the hell is wrong with them", but I agree with this. It's easy to fall into US-bashing but it's pretty uncool. There are plenty of halfwits in this country too.
I admit, though, I wonder how much of the fuel for scenes like this is people who just can't afford those things other than when they're on ridiculous sales trying to acquire them during the only opportunity they have. When you think of it that way it's almost more poignant than it is disgusting.
: Tosca December 01, 2012, 01:03:42 -07:00
Okay, yeah, this is absolutely horrifying and ridiculous... but can we not with the US-bashing? :| It's not the entire country that's like that, and--on a personal level--I don't much appreciate having my birth nation being generalized as such.
I do agree that there should be no US bashing, but besides maybe one or two things that were said... there was no bashing of the states. You can't really sugar-coat the fact that this video is from the US though. Granted, there are people like them everywhere, but still.
I feel like this should be set to "Beautiful World"
http://youtu.be/k3MxuDk7wqo (http://youtu.be/k3MxuDk7wqo)
I am curious why people think these types of social deviances are worse than the Stanley Cup riots (let alone the soccer riots where people get killed frequently).
In these unfortunate displays of primal behaviour, people are scrambling and struggling with each other for a trivial item, but luckily there is limited damage being done, and once out of the struggle people seem to carry on as normal.
In the Stanley cup riots, there was nothing to struggle for. These people had not played the game and hadn't exerted any effort to obtain something and then went about doing millions of dollars in damage not just in a centralized space. In soccer riots there is active hunts for opposing team members, many suffering grevious harm.
: Pat The Fox December 01, 2012, 09:58:23 -07:00
I am curious why people think these types of social deviances are worse than the Stanley Cup riots (let alone the soccer riots where people get killed frequently).
In these unfortunate displays of primal behaviour, people are scrambling and struggling with each other for a trivial item, but luckily there is limited damage being done, and once out of the struggle people seem to carry on as normal.
In the Stanley cup riots, there was nothing to struggle for. These people had not played the game and hadn't exerted any effort to obtain something and then went about doing millions of dollars in damage not just in a centralized space. In soccer riots there is active hunts for opposing team members, many suffering grevious harm.
I definitely don't think they're worse. Each one is embarrassing for different reasons and it really makes humanity look bad to freak out over trivial things. :\
: Pat The Fox December 01, 2012, 09:58:23 -07:00
I am curious why people think these types of social deviances are worse than the Stanley Cup riots (let alone the soccer riots where people get killed frequently).
I don't think they're worse, either. The Stanley Cup riots (twice!) are a good illustration of the fact that we have plenty of hooligans in this neck of the woods too.
Though in both cases I'm hesitant to say that everyone who participated is clearly a bad person - mob mentality is a more powerful force than we often give it credit for. That's not the same as saying I think they should be absolved of any wrongdoing, though.
Mob mentality really is a huge part of it, people are natural followers, as soon as you give them any motivation to join in on something they just do it for the while "fit in" feeling. Its just like in school when you got that one guy who is being picked on, and you get other kids who are total strangers to the one guy just picking on him as well cause they want to belong, they got no real reason, they just have no real identity and just auto conform to the pack/ mob mentality.
I just call it being a failed human being, when they do that same kinda thing when they are older.
: Pat The Fox December 01, 2012, 09:58:23 -07:00
I am curious why people think these types of social deviances are worse than the Stanley Cup riots (let alone the soccer riots where people get killed frequently).
In these unfortunate displays of primal behaviour, people are scrambling and struggling with each other for a trivial item, but luckily there is limited damage being done, and once out of the struggle people seem to carry on as normal.
In the Stanley cup riots, there was nothing to struggle for. These people had not played the game and hadn't exerted any effort to obtain something and then went about doing millions of dollars in damage not just in a centralized space. In soccer riots there is active hunts for opposing team members, many suffering grevious harm.
Let me remark that a couple years ago, someone got TRAMPLED TO DEATH after opening the doors at a Wal Mart on Black Friday. The riots we experienced here were larger by comparison, yes, but the very same ugly, barbaric mentality exists in the Black Friday issue. Those of you who are comparing the two are forgetting that the Stanley Cup riots were
hundreds of thousands of individuals while these Black Friday stampedes are a couple hundred/couple thousand at a time.
Also, look at it this way: Stanley Cup 2010/2011 was a mob and it was destructive, yes. But there is at least something we can view from the mob-behaviour: were it possible to unite a group of that magnitude under a more positive, constructive goal, then we could really have something going here. It is sad that the mob was motivated by destruction and mischief, but there is at least something that can be drawn from it; Black Friday mobs are nothing but the epitome of human greed and consumerism... something that does nothing but cause me to seethe at my core. There is nothing positive gained from this other than being able to say that you would never ever find me exhibiting the same disgusting behaviour as witnessed in OP's video.
Walmart employee trampled on black friday (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiFnDTAt0IE#)
This video does nothing but cause me extreme anger and contempt for my own species. You can hear the same anger behind the police-officer's voice, growing as he narrates the events of that morning. I wish humans could simply evolve and surpass this fucking stupid hunger for consumerism and saving five bucks on a goddamn printer, coffee-maker, whathaveyou.
This is why I'm glad that most stores around here only let in a certain amount of people at a time on Boxing Day sales. I've seen the horrors of Black Friday, and will never go down there for it unless forced to and/or doing a journalistic report on it.
The video really is an ode to North American Consumerism. Bask in the empire that people have built with their desire to buy things at slightly discounted prices. It's rather terrible what some people will do to save a few dollars on things they don't really need.
Apparently Black Friday sales aren't sales at all, they just gradually raise the prices from summer till that day and drop them down again to their normal prices.
This video also shows the same idea:
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/jansing-and-co/49330296#49330296 (http://video.msnbc.msn.com/jansing-and-co/49330296#49330296)
: Nibi December 04, 2012, 01:04:56 -07:00
Apparently Black Friday sales aren't sales at all, they just gradually raise the prices from summer till that day and drop them down again to their normal prices.
This video also shows the same idea:
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/jansing-and-co/49330296#49330296 (http://video.msnbc.msn.com/jansing-and-co/49330296#49330296)
In addition to that, manufacturers often sell different but nearly identical products that use cheaper manufacturing channels and/or lesser spec'd components to reduce the costs of them (often denoted by a slight change in model number), or they will sell old products for near the cost of new ones. It's ridiculous really.
: drekian December 04, 2012, 01:13:05 -07:00
In addition to that, manufacturers often sell different but nearly identical products that use cheaper manufacturing channels and/or lesser spec'd components to reduce the costs of them (often denoted by a slight change in model number), or they will sell old products for near the cost of new ones. It's ridiculous really.
True dat. The real door-crasher Black Friday sales are usually either a. clearing out the old junk they don't want anymore or b. sales of very limited stock designed to get people in the door and buying something more expensive. Sometimes the price gets them in the door, then they end up buying something else
because the item that's on sale is crap.
:birdy: I just think it cracks me up. Then again I don't think i have actually had to buy anything from a walmart in over 5 years... o.o;
: Troubles December 04, 2012, 01:32:48 -07:00
:birdy: I just think it cracks me up. Then again I don't think i have actually had to buy anything from a walmart in over 5 years... o.o;
I'm jealous! You should keep it that way. I've seen some pretty weird people at wally-world.
: visgar December 04, 2012, 02:26:06 -07:00
I'm jealous! You should keep it that way. I've seen some pretty weird people at wally-world.
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/photos/ (http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/photos/)
: RedWolf December 04, 2012, 04:55:52 -07:00
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/photos/ (http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/photos/)
I love you so hard right now for posting that website. XDDD I am thoroughly entertained. :P
I'm glad I made someone smile today :-3
: RedWolf December 04, 2012, 04:55:52 -07:00
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/photos/ (http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/photos/)
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: visgar December 17, 2012, 09:57:52 -07:00
asxdhayfwrstguyse <3 thank you for posting this
No problemo! :-3
Capitalism, clearly its the right way to do things.
As for those that whine about people making fun of the states, no other nation on earth has been as violent and unrelenting in its attempt to spread THAT sort of mind set across the globe. Materialism and greed are the biggest problems on our planet, but you can be sure its not videos like this that are shown to try to spread it, the true face of capitalism isn't so nice.