Crowds at Stores
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.
Would you like to become part of one of the desperate mobs that will surely form at every single one of your local supermarkets and grocery stores?
I wouldn’t. And I’m bigger than that guy in the news stories, and I know something about how to control an unruly crowd.
There is an easy solution. And you know what it is. Make it so that you don’t need to go to the store. Have your emergency supplies ready at home.
A word to the wise is sufficient.
