I am officially completely morally opposed to going out to shop on Black Friday. It's a sad day when people are so obsessed with consumer culture that they will literally do the most animalistic shit to save $50 on a fucking television set.
Today in Long Island a 34 year old temporary Wal-Mart employee named Jdimypai Damour was trampled to death when they opened their doors at five o'clock this morning. Let's think about this. First of all, why in gods name would you create a situation like this in the first place? Because it's a REALLY smart idea to allow a throng of 2,000 people to press themselves up against the doors and wait to get in. What do you think is going to happen when you open those doors? I already refuse to shop at Wal-Mart because they are notorious for treating their workers like second class citizens but this is ridiculous. As far as I'm concerned they are responsible for placing their employees in harms way. Can you imagine this? Waking up at the crack of dawn to go to a place where you're probably under appreciated in the first place so you can work and pay your bills just like everyone else and you get pushed on the ground by insane deal-obsessed shoppers? None of these people even stopped to help this guy accept for his co-workers. People continued to push and shove EMTs and police officers as they tried to resuscitate him. He was pronounced dead at 6:30 AM. I hope these people think about this when their kids open those discounted action figures and iPods on Christmas morning. I'm truly disgusted.
It's hard for me to find any reason to believe that these deals are even remotely worth this. Are people unaware that you can get the majority of these deals online? Also, most stores have a policy that requires them to refund you the difference if an item goes on sale within two weeks of purchase. The stupidty of people never ceases to amaze me.
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