They’re still talking about this in the media from time to time… the thing that happened on so-called Black Friday, where the sales associate was killed by a rampaging mob of shoppers.

The guy was 6-foot-5 and 270 lbs., and yeah, he had no training at crowd control, but that is still quite a large person to be swept under the feet of stampeding consumers.

This was for a sale. No emergency, no life-threatening disaster was happening. Just the chance of saving a few dollars on items that have little or no impact on a person’s survival.

Imagine what it would be like if a situation were to occur where people thought they needed to buy food right now or they would starve.
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