Black Friday

"Black Friday", a marketing invention used to describe the forced, lemming-like "consumer rush" to spend holiday dollars on the day after Thanksgiving, has only been in existence since the 1960's - and even then the use of the term "Black Friday" was only used in advertising circles, and was not publicly known. Now that the term has mindlessly entered the cultural lexicon, and people are being trampled to death over "reduced prices", that's all the more reason to avoid shopping at all on this day, and stay FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD!

Black Friday Stampede Kills Worker At Wal-Mart

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Update: The New York Daily News is now saying that reports of a woman having a miscarriage during a Wal-Mart Black Friday stampede are unfounded.

A 28-year-old pregnant woman was knocked to the floor during the mad rush. She was hospitalized for observation, police said. Early witness accounts that the woman suffered a miscarriage were unfounded, police said.

From The New York Daily News:

A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.

The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.

Additional reports from NY Newsday say the "34-year-old Wal-Mart worker died Friday morning after he was knocked to the ground after 'a throng of shoppers physically broke down the doors,' pushing their way into the store at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, Nassau police said."