Tainted Lumch Meat : black friday

It seems every year some one gets trampled, stampeded or otherwise injured on the day after Thanksgiving at a mall or Walmart. What happened this year to the victim in New York is tragic, but not surprising. What is surprising is that more people aren't seriously injured during these shopping events. I was hoping to see Black Friday be just another Friday this year. With the economy in the shitter and people losing jobs and homes and cars and credit lines, I wasn't expecting to hear stories about 2,000 people being lined up in front of a Walmart to buy crap. I feel like those people are like the zombies in Dawn of the Dead, they don't know why they are there, they just know they should be there, there's no other place to be on that day. It's sad. Certainly there were better things to be doing at 5am, like sleeping, not being complicit in the death of another person, etc. I bought cigarettes and a soda on Black Friday, two things that may lead to an early death, two things that didn't significantly impact retail numbers for any major chain store, glad to be doing my part to not help our consumer economy. If shoppers still show up for nonsense like Black Friday deals in the midst of one of our biggest clusterfuck economic downturns, I can't wait to see what happens during a good economy, maybe we'll see a Blood Red Friday as the zombie shoppers battle for deals designed to separate them from their savings.