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Crazed shoppers pile up at Target
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Posted on 11/26/2010 10:05:57 AM PST by traumer

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Shoppers waited out in the cold wet weather for hours. When the doors opened at 4 a.m. the Black Friday chaos turned ugly.

*** VIDEO at the link ***

Seconds after the doors opened, something went dangerously wrong.

Crazed Black Friday shoppers began piling up on each other.

"It went from controlled to a mob in less than five minutes and it just got nasty," said a shopper.

When officials heard the screams, they ran over right away to help.

Shopper Rich Mathewson said, "It was a lot of angry people just jumping in after we waited patiently for a long time. It actually started way before that, people started getting angry at everybody."

After it happened, one man bent over in pain but he took off into the North Buffalo Target store seconds later, along with everyone else.

Seconds after the pile up, shoppers got back to business. News 4 called store officials to see if anyone was injured, but no one was available to comment.

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KEYWORDS: blackfriday; freerepublicracists; racism; racismonfreerepublic; racists; riots; shopping; target
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1 posted on 11/26/2010 10:06:01 AM PST by traumer
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Christmas now is just plain sick .....


2 posted on 11/26/2010 10:07:54 AM PST by SkyDancer ("If You Don't Read The News You're Uninformed, If You Do Read The News You're Misinformed")
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To: traumer
4 AM. I could get up and go out and face a violent mob of crazed shoppers, or roll over and go back to sleep.

Decisions, decisions.

3 posted on 11/26/2010 10:08:26 AM PST by AU72
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To: AU72

CONSUMER - CUSTOMER - MINDLESS LOCUST


4 posted on 11/26/2010 10:09:32 AM PST by traumer
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To: traumer

Being at the door at 4am for a BF sale is like jumping into a lion’s den at the zoo. You deserve what you get because if you’re gonna be stupid, you better learn to be tough.


5 posted on 11/26/2010 10:09:54 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Obama is like a rocket scientist....who's trying to do brain surgery with a hammer.)
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To: AU72

I got up at 4 to take a wiz. That’s about it.


6 posted on 11/26/2010 10:10:12 AM PST by goseminoles
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To: traumer

(Obama money!)

7 posted on 11/26/2010 10:11:03 AM PST by maggief
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To: AU72

That’s I think of it. Sit out in the cold waiting for a possible deal and angry people or I could cuddle with my husband. That was an easy decision.


8 posted on 11/26/2010 10:12:01 AM PST by HungarianGypsy
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To: traumer

Someone should do a blue state vs red state talley of black friday trampling incidents...


9 posted on 11/26/2010 10:14:14 AM PST by Yet_Again
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A story/picture of a society which has been methodically groomed to not value human life or human lives as God-given and unique.... in jungle terms it is called the survival of the fittest... “Love thy neighbor as thyself” has been laughed out of our schools, beginning the Pre-K and finding its ultimate seat in universities, and out of our workplace as the out-of-date thoughts of the “unwashed”.

I'm reminded of C.S. Lewis words about the school system in England “we create men without chests...”

10 posted on 11/26/2010 10:15:39 AM PST by bareford101 (For me, there is no difference in a tolerant, open mind and a cess pool. Both are open to filth.)
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To: Yet_Again
Oh, and America...



...Chairman Mao is laughing at you.
11 posted on 11/26/2010 10:15:39 AM PST by Yet_Again
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To: maggief

Is that why they call it black friday?


12 posted on 11/26/2010 10:16:20 AM PST by de.rm (Bang, bang, . . bang. Shhh=Bush, the elder, E. Howard Hunt, LBJ, Mrs, Edgar Hoover)
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Yep


13 posted on 11/26/2010 10:17:45 AM PST by RnMomof7 (Gal 4:16 asks "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?")
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To: bareford101
Starve the Beast!
14 posted on 11/26/2010 10:19:08 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Planning on using 911? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
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To: traumer
Experience the joy of the Christmas Season! I have two daughters in their 20s. I ordered a few things on-line for them and that's it. Everyone together at Christmas dinner puts a smile on my face.
15 posted on 11/26/2010 10:19:16 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!)
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Black Friday, the High Holy Day of the Idiot Nation.


16 posted on 11/26/2010 10:20:26 AM PST by dfwgator (Congratulations to Josh Hamilton - AL MVP)
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To: de.rm

Did anybody see Fox about an hour ago? They interviewed a black shopper with the caption below “Black Friday Shopper.” It was just funny...lawsuit to follow!


17 posted on 11/26/2010 10:20:31 AM PST by GnuHere
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To: traumer

People have scrimped and saved, sweating out inflation and their devalued money, and now they can get some deals they can afford. Watch the media pump it up as a sign the economy is improving. That will go along with a boost in employment preceding a sharp drop in January.


18 posted on 11/26/2010 10:21:12 AM PST by pallis
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I’ll fly down to Muswellbrook.


19 posted on 11/26/2010 10:21:31 AM PST by dfwgator (Congratulations to Josh Hamilton - AL MVP)
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To: traumer
Seconds after the doors opened, something went dangerously wrong.

Not really. This happens every year.

Just like the "running with the bulls" it is expected and not at all surprising that people are going to get injured on Black Friday.

20 posted on 11/26/2010 10:22:57 AM PST by Drew68
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