Black Friday Shoppers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZJVZ2p223o&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeSgBL7gpAk&feature=related (Only watch the first 30 seconds) (Also, I have no idea how to link on a Mac, my bad) <-- Delete afterwards? :D thx I'm not sure how many of you have ever gotten up up three o'clock in the morning to get in line at Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Circuit City or any other main participate of the phenomena that is the day after Thanksgiving, also known as Black Friday. A side note, my father and I do this as a tradition. Most of the time, I don't go to bed the night before, but that's not relevant. What is relevant is that my father and I have another tradition. Making sure people don't cut the line. Because there is nothing more annoying that waiting outside for two hours in the cold to get a HD TV, than to have people pull up ten minutes before the doors open and take advantage of the mayhem that ensues when the doors finally open. Regardless, let's analyze what happens before, during, and after the doors have been open. Like I mentioned before in my personal anecdote, the line starts to form depending on the type of store and what the sale is. People who go for Best Buy will get in line the morning before (missing Thanksgiving with the family which is very tacky. :| ) just to get at the front of the line. The line will continue to form until about a half an hour before the doors open. This is when people start to hang on the other side of the main road (that runs in front of the store) and wait to jump in line. At a certain point (as seen in the video around 0:11-0:20) you can see people start to come out of their cars and jump in line. Around 0:30, all mayhem breaks out and people attempt to push their way through the double doors, creating a bottleneck jam. After the congestion forms, all source of general humanity is lost and the line is disrupted creating chaos. Solution to this mess? Either a) get in line first or b) don't go.

Posted at 03:48PM Dec 02, 2008 by Karin Hurwitz in MediaHunt6  |  Comments[0]