Tis the season to get trampled.....fa-la-la-la-la

what people will go through for a shitty apex dvd player. now if was a name brand i could see it but not for a generic one

A DVD player? For a Cabbage Patch doll maybe.

Come work in the cell phone biz; the day after Thanksgiving we're actually slower than usual. No one wants to stress over rate plans when they could be running around pulling things off of shelves.

Amen. Just another depressing anectdote to an increasingly depressing human race.

Peace on Earth and goodwill toward men, my ass. If Jesus was actually born in this crappy season we insist on saying he was then he'd be rolling over on ... the ... left? ... hand of god... (that sounds weird!) But! 100's of generations of Druids, Wiccans and other "pagans" who honored the solstice are certainly dissapointed in their fellow moron ... I mean man! D'oh.

Shop on America!

Last year, someone got shot at Target because they accidentally cut into line ahead of someone. This was the line outside... at 5:30 AM. People are idiots.

YES! I can only hope that the aliens come and take our toys away and tell us to play nice with one another - God doesn't seem to be interested.

I actually have an Apex DVD player. It works at least as well as much more expensive ones. I mean, I wouldn't want to get stomped for one, but it's an OK player.

Just read the story in the local paper and I agree with the moo comment.What's fucking wrong with people that they injure someone in order to save a few bucks on something they don't need.Don't they realise the same item will be on sale in a couple of weeks again?

Same reason the lottery works so well, just another way to fleece the sheep... whoops! I mean exploit the cattle... or rape our natural resources (morons.)

People are just afraid they might miss the bargain

i'm not doing christmas shopping this year...everyone will understand.

january 25th...the new christmas!!!

Convert to an Orthodox church. They don't have Christmas until Jan. 7th.

You could do your shopping at the after-Christmas sales.

Oh, and by the way, Apex is going to start making bargain-priced HDTV's too. I'm not sure I'd buy one, unless they get those down to like $30 too.

[Edited on Nov 30, 2003 by jake_lex]

I like suggestion number 2 jakelex .I actually told my family I was going to start doing that but me ma pointed out I was just being a cheap bastard which I am ,well at least the bastard part.

Why is this a big news story? The busiest shopping day of the year... One fucked up thing happens in one Wal-Mart... 298 million people in this country... The lady wasn't even killed. *YAWN*

The real story here is how fucking lazy the media machine is -- Rather than finding real news, or trying to tell a more complex story that might actually engage people's noggin's, we get this crap, which essentially amounts to salacious gossip passed at light speed from newsroom to newsroom. All this story does is titillate, allows us all to participate in a collective national endorphin rush from saying tsk, tsk. What if it was just really crowded, really loud, and nobody could notice? Probably everyone else in that crowd was getting jostled around so much they didn't know what was what. This isn't a morality play -- this is a crowd control issue. Walmart needs to do a better job of admitting people to its stores on the busiest shopping day of the year.

Oh, but it's just soooo sweet: Wal-mart, the quintessential of American capitalism. And if she was shopping at Wal-mart, she must have been a real working class stiff. Probably her husband cut bolts down at the factory, and she was a receptionist at the local Dentist office where she worked to make ends meet. And all she wanted was a DVD player for little Jimmy, who has a learning disability you know. Do you know how long she worked to save up that $29? Big. Fuckin. Deal.

Remind me to make a time machine and go back to shoot the guy that invented money.

It happened not too far from here... it was on the news... apparently one of the other shoppers' daughters accused her own mother of considering the idea of stealing the DVD player that our dear tramplee had fallen on... but thought better of it.


The beautiful thing is... we can stand in line for hours to buy plywood and drinking water for Hurricane Obadiah but we can't do the same to buy a tickle me elmo.

Hello? Christmas? Whatever happened to "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's possessions" and "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"? Good thing everyone keeps the spirit of the holiday so close to their hearts...