Black Friday this year brought about its usual shuffle of scuttles and fights.
Did you just read that opening line without batting an eye? I just told you that people pummeled each other to buy a pair of half-priced slippers, and nobody even thinks that’s strange. I, myself, didn’t think it was that bizarre either when I came across the couple dozen videos of Black Friday fights. In America, we have this strange tradition of counting our blessings at 3:30, and then rushing out of the house by 6pm to pummel each other for those aforementioned slippers.
But I digress…
As the horror stories and mayhem role in, we find a few oddballs this year. In Saginaw, Michigan, we saw a group of people become rowdy over kitchen appliances. They piled up and tackled a stack of kitchen appliances, according to a local news organization. local news organization.
There’s even a video that’s surfaced, showing the woman into the pile and recovering her footing, only to snatch a veggie steamer out of a child’s hands. The child’s mother then loses it and puts a headlock on the “thief,” who screeches, “Why are you being so oppressive?! You’re scaring me!”
I feel it’s important that I mention here that the video might be a fake.
But, please, suspend your disbelief and watch it purely as a piece of art:
Also included in this year’s roundup are two separate Kentucky mall fights. The first fight (which does look sketchy) happened at Mall St. Matthews in Louisville. Two men threw down in the middle of a food court.
WORRRRLDSTAAAAAR pic.twitter.com/SEuGy40nwR
— yung wifi (@DaddyWeaknd) November 27, 2015
The second Kentucky scuffle happened in Florence while people yelled, “World Star,” which refers to the hip hop juggernaut that specializes in such fight videos.
When someone takes the last pair of Jordan's on Black Friday. pic.twitter.com/25IZnEk4Zk
— 'nati (@NSudenga) November 27, 2015
[Featured Image Credit: NY Daily News]