Black Friday Hell, Cops Pepper Spray Walmart Shoppers

[Col Quisp]

What the heck is going on with all these incidents of Black Friday rage? Old people and pregnant women trampled by hordes of crazed shoppers out for bargains! Surely this is not the spirit of Xmas! Pagan idolatry! Mammon worship! Let's put the "X" back in Xmas!<br><br>This report of a Texas Walmart incident is chilling:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>“There were some people trying to break thru the crowds because they were throwing up, and couldn`t breathe,” said one shopper, Andrenette Davis, “It was pretty bad.”<br><br>Numerous customers inside the store at the time tell KBTV the crowd gathered in the electronics department and some customers began shoving others. Witnesses say a Beaumont police officer - identified by the Beaumont Police Department as Officer Avie Ownby - told the crowd to back up. They say <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the officer then pulled out his can of pepper spray and sprayed it into the crowd. </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->Sergeant Dean Crooks with the Beaumont Police Department tells KBTV they are investigating the incident, but that they investigate any incident where an officer uses force. He says Officer Ownby is a 20 year veteran of the force.<br><br>According to those inside the store, the pepper spray hit adults <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>and children </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->and several employees. One woman says she fell and chipped her tooth on the ground.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>“It has no harmful effects,” said Sergeant Mike Earney of the Beaumont Police Department, “it focuses your attention from being aggressive to wanting to take care of the problem on yourself.”<br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.kbtv4.tv/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=9901">www.kbtv4.tv/news/default...ws&id=9901</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Arrgh! We are living in a police state.<br> <p></p><i></i>

[dragon]

We live in a police state? Sure. But the stampede in Wal-Mart was not a police state action. My first thought was that Wal-Mart had their subliminal message machine turned up too high.<br><br><br>The TV subliminals had already prepped them to "buy like crazy". The Wal-Mart subliminals were just system overload to their brains.<br><br><br>Dragon <p></p><i></i>

[Col Quisp]

You are no doubt right about those subliminal messages, Dragon, since many of these stampeding incidents took place in Wal-Marts. <p></p><i></i>

[mother]

Absolutely there is something brain-damaging in and around these places. Also, they are prime hunting-grounds for pedophile predators. I am positive there are many serious reasons to avoid going there. The money-saving is an out right deception, old as the hills. <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

...at an IKEA awhile back?<br><br>Of course it just cracks me up to imagine a bunch of Bedu hauling a camel-load of ugly cheesy blond-wood 'occasional tables' and ceramic coffee mugs back to their tent in the Rub al-Khali. <p></p><i></i>