The Craziest Black Friday Videos You’ll Ever See!
Everyone can get a little loopy around the holidays. And, shopping definitely makes some people crazy. Put those two activities together; then add no sleep, limited quantities of sought after products, and the general public. Now, there is a REAL recipe for madness… Here are the absolutely most insane Black Friday shopping videos out there!
By the way, we certainly don’t endorse this kind of insanity! Deals are all well and good people, but let’s try to be civil with one another. And hey, if you want to miss this kind of madness you can always stay home and shop online while wearing your PJs and drinking eggnog.
‘The Stampede’, or the Entrance
At this particular store, everyone seems to be seeing red as they try to get in to buy their coveted gadgets at 4am. It only takes about 6 seconds for someone to fall, and it’s all over as soon as one goes down. It only took security an impressive 15 seconds to arrive on the scene, and another 30 seconds to get everyone up. Hopefully back injuries weren’t as common as Xboxes that morning!
The stakes are raised a bit at this store, with it only taking 3 seconds for the first patron to go down hard. He impressively fights through and gets in the store, and it isn’t until 20 seconds in that the line truly starts bottlenecking. Even so, people continue to push their way through the madness to get to the Promised Land; retail therapy.
Apparently in Fresno, California, video games are taken seriously – very seriously. What else would explain the riot that occurred outside a store there when there failed to be enough games for the hopeful patrons wanting them? I suppose the heavy police presence would have been enough to calm political protestors – but not video game supporters!
“The Fights”, or Shopping
While pleasantly shopping for the latest and greatest gadget, two civil shoppers have a difference of opinion about who first had daintily chosen a particular gadget. Mind you, the gadget was being thrown at their heads by the store clerk, who then provided the sound advice to ‘Take it outside’, so that the cool-headed patrons could dodge and paw for further technologies.
In this store, patrons were SO excited to get their hands on the latest waffle iron, they decided not to let them hit the shelves before bum rushing the security guards. The security guard’s whistle can be heard trying to calm the madness, but it seems that it will take more than a piercing noise to invade the hardened hearts of these shoppers.
At this particular store, video games again rule the day. This time, people are so anxious to lay hands on their favorite titles, that they don’t appear to care what game they actually pick up, or how many of them. In fact, it seems more like an adult-oriented, drunken Easter egg hunt than it does a sale for mere video games. Maybe they receive some discount for getting the most games in general? Or perhaps they then use these games to barter for other, more desirable products throughout the store?
This angry mob isn’t bothering to wait for the pallet to be unwrapped before the delve into it, not even knowing what’s inside. And again, we find video games are causing the most compelling of riots. If we didn’t know the mob were already in the store, I would think they are looters – discovering and making away with the latest and greatest. Well, maybe they are… the difference being they just have to pay for them.
At this well-prepared store, it looks more like free t-shirts are being given away at a sporting event, not electronics being purchased in a Fortune 500 company store. The best part of this video is the employee surfacing in the middle of the crowd, and frivolously shouting ‘BACK UP!’, as if it will at all impact the hundred people attempting to stand on top of her.
Things get a little heated when it comes to taking “cutsies” in line at this store, with one patron not appreciating another holding a place for a friend in line. Things escalate to the point that store employees and security is brought in, which prompts the question: with all this holiday cheer, why do we need store security? Surely we can all sort out our differences over a cup of hot cocoa and rousing chorus of “The First Noel”?
Although the video quality is poor, these young gentlemen have clearly been the perpetrators of some shopping faux pas, to which the other young gentlemen take offense. So, like the gentlemen they are, they decide that fisticuffs are the only honorable way to settle the disagreement. An orderly and respectable brawl ensues, dragging some passersby into the throng of hoodlums.
“Honorable Mentions”
At this Russian electronics store, laptops are on sale. And Russians clearly take their laptop sales very seriously, sprinting the length of the store to attempt to be first to lay claim to the discount.
This shopper that attempted to cut in line on Black Friday needs to go back and buy some soap, to wash her mouth out!! She clearly didn’t get the memo that holiday cheer was in the air, and after being told that she has to go to the back of the line by store employees, she promptly freaks out and loses her cool, and her censor! The language in this one is definitely not safe for work (or if the kids are around).
By the way, there were a few we didn’t include here…anything where people got seriously hurt is no laughing matter and we made sure we specifically didn’t include those.
What about you? Have you had any bizarre black friday experiences? We’d love to hear from you in the comments if you have!
