Black Friday=DEATH
Literally.
I am so sickened by this story - it's just gross. What has society come to?!
Yesterday a Wal-mart employee in New York was trampled to DEATH by throngs of holiday shoppers trying to gain entry to the store on Black Friday. You can read the full story over at the New York Times.
This is the most unbelievable quote to me:
Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like "savages."
"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling `I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" she said. "They kept shopping."
This just confirms for me that I will never go shopping on Black Friday, EVER!
You know what I did yesterday?
I slept in. I cleaned my living room in preparation for holiday decorating. I ate leftovers. I worked on gifts for my family.
I subscribe to holidays that bring times of happiness, warmth and comfort to my home. Corporate created, mass-marketed Christmas has reached a new all time low - and you know what? I'm not buying it. It's rubbish and bullshit!
I certainly don't expect that you or I have made our last trip to the mall. The sales rack at Old Navy certainly makes me smile. However, a trip to pick up a couple of things and a hemorrhaging credit card from Christmas induced hysteria are two very different animals.
I don't even know how to end a post like this. This story is just...so discouraging.
Sigh.
I am so sickened by this story - it's just gross. What has society come to?!
Yesterday a Wal-mart employee in New York was trampled to DEATH by throngs of holiday shoppers trying to gain entry to the store on Black Friday. You can read the full story over at the New York Times.
This is the most unbelievable quote to me:
Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like "savages."
"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling `I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" she said. "They kept shopping."
This just confirms for me that I will never go shopping on Black Friday, EVER!
You know what I did yesterday?
I slept in. I cleaned my living room in preparation for holiday decorating. I ate leftovers. I worked on gifts for my family.
I subscribe to holidays that bring times of happiness, warmth and comfort to my home. Corporate created, mass-marketed Christmas has reached a new all time low - and you know what? I'm not buying it. It's rubbish and bullshit!
I certainly don't expect that you or I have made our last trip to the mall. The sales rack at Old Navy certainly makes me smile. However, a trip to pick up a couple of things and a hemorrhaging credit card from Christmas induced hysteria are two very different animals.
I don't even know how to end a post like this. This story is just...so discouraging.
Sigh.
posted by Geek+Nerd at 2:22 PM
5 Comments:
That is insane!
I'm with you - no shopping on Black Friday for me! Just not worth it - it would actually prevent me from getting into the Christmas spirit!
Besides ... 90% (if not more) of our holiday gifts are handmade anyway! ;-)
The last t.v. that Thor and I bought was so long ago that it has two permanent spots (one yellow and the other green) and one red one that 'floats' according to its' mood. I really can't remember where or when we purchased it. Now they tell us we need to buy HD or a box or cable or whatever by Feb. or no t.v. at all. So we thought maybe we would consider buying a new one during Black Friday. The best deal we could find VoldeMart with the deal of camp out over night in the near freezing temperatures, hope you get in first and then save a lousy $20.00 for your troubles.
Um, no thanks we'll stay home.
When we read the tragic social commentary on the mad shopper mob mentality that resulted in an actual cold blooded death, we were done in. (Why do other cultures think America is wicked and greedy?)
Minimum wage does not equate putting your life on the line so someone can save a crappy $20 bucks.
The real meaning of Christmas is not a big screen t.v., it is that God provided a Way for us to repent, forgive, love more, serve more, and live so that others seeing us would want to follow Christ to their true Father.
I decided weeks ago not to buy gifts for people this year. I'll be making cookies, etc. My husband and I decided that we would buy for each other with a limit of $15. So when I heard the Walmart story yesterday it made me ill.
I am excited to have my house smelling like chocolate chip cookies and Christmas trees this year.
Wow. Apparently, this is why I stayed home and made turkey soup and cherry pie on Friday . . . this is just so sad . . .
OMG! That's f*^king horrific. For shame.
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