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Black Friday Deal Fails: Death, Pepper Spray, B*llshit And Cheerleaders

These Five Black Friday Deal Fails Will Make You Despair For Humanity
Sara C Nelson
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Black Friday will be upon us once more come 27 November.

It's rapidly becoming the biggest online shopping day of the year for many countries [last year in the UK consumers parted with a whopping £810m - far exceeding the predicted spend of £363m] but it's not all flat screen TVs and cut-price blenders.

For a decidedly darker side to the yearly event is rapidly emerging, clouding the celebration of consumerism with shamefully graceless behaviour, assault and even death.

The darker side of Black Friday...

Black Friday Fails
Nothing comes between me and my TV (01 of03)
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Clinging to a 40 inch flat screen TV, this woman hands down won Black Friday in 2014. At one point she even lost her glasses and furry hat in the skirmishes at Asda’s Wembley superstore, but her single-minded determination paid off (even if she left her pride on the shop floor). (credit:Rex )
The blackest day (02 of03)
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In 2008 a Wal-Mart employee died on Black Friday after an “out of control” mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store’s front doors and trampled him. Jdimytai Damour was seen gasping for airs as shoppers walked over him. Fellow employee Jimmy Overby said: “They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me.” At time of publication, a Black Friday death count website lists seven deaths and 98 injuries during the history of the event.
Actual bullshit (03 of03)
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Outrageous card game Cards Against Humanity chose Black Friday to execute a near perfect protest of consumerism by selling actual boxes of bull faeces. Marked ‘bullshit’, the merchandise sold raised an astonishing $180,000 in the stunt, a wry comment on the acres of useless crap many shoppers end up saddled with after the event. (credit:Twitter)

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