A Shameful Display

The Black Friday shopping spree was marked, yet again, by ignorant, self-centered idiots. Shoplifters were shot, thieves ran rampant, a store was evacuated, and one woman had the nerve to spit on another woman's child...over baby clothes?

There are so many things wrong with this scenario that it is making my head hurt.

Why try to steal from people/store with all those witnesses? Yes the employees are distracted but there is (presumably) heighten security because of that (at least in a mall setting). But lets say there is no increase in security, why take the chance that the three hundred people in the store won't say anything? Why is Black Friday your preferred day to shoplift and rob people on their way home or to their cars? What is wrong with the other days of the year? People buy TV's every day. Better yet, why can't you just not steal and work for what you want, so you can deserve it?

How did American society get to the point were people think it is okay to call in bomb threats? Or (which is truly pathetic) spit on a child, because of a disagreement about clothes...clothes? You traumatized that kid for absolutely no good reason. Grow up people.

It's just a sale, if you didn't get what you wanted big deal. Again, become an adult. Just wait a few days and it will be back on the shelves again. Maybe not as cheap, but deal with it. You've still got plenty of days till Christmas.

If you're making a big deal about clothes or a TV then you've forgotten about the meaning of Christmas (and the forsaken Thanksgiving) allegedly has.

It hurts my head thinking about how people can be belligerent and thoughtless over material things that don't even matter.


References:

11/29/2013

http://news.msn.com/us/fights-store-evacuation-mar-black-friday-shopping