American shoppers continued to embarrass themselves in the eyes of the world during yesterday’s shopping extravaganza. While smart shoppers stayed home and avoided the insanity by ordering gifts online, the melees were alive and well in malls and big box stores across the country.
When it becomes difficult to tell the difference between that giant horde of zombies on The Walking Dead and shoppers on the day after Thanksgiving, it’s pretty evident that we have a serious problem.
Watch these videos, and just imagine if these people and their children were hungry. What if you stood between them and the food they felt they should have? Do you really think that they’ll be more civilized when the prize is life-saving food and not a cheap TV? Is there really any question that preppers should be armed?
Use this as a case study in collapse behavior.
The Black Friday 2015 Videos
In our first video, an adult snatched a vegetable steamer out of the hands of a child. As the stunned child looked on, the mother took off after the steamer snatcher, who told her not to be so aggressive.
Several fights erupted in this stampede through a shopping mall that looked uncannily like the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, except with human participants instead of horned ones.
In this video, people at Wal-Mart come to blows over a “deal” on a television.
Here’s another Wal-Mart television brawl, this time in Texas.
At yet another Wal-Mart, this employee had enough and took down a customer.
This man was so determined to get a “deal” that he went all Mission Impossible, scurrying across coolers in order to get to his desired sale item more quickly.
The lunacy seems to have spread to the UK this year, if this video from Yorkshire is anything to judge by.
The Joke is on Them
And here’s the thing: These sales actually aren’t that good. In fact, some products are actually triple the price that they were 3 weeks ago. They are behaving this shamefully and paying more and their lack of research to determine this says that they’re probably not thinking ahead enough to prep.
This isn’t a one-time thing. It happens every single year.
Now…think about this.
What if there was no food? No water? No medicine? What if the grocery store was cleaned out and there was no sign of it restocking any time soon? How would this same throng of people behave to get the last loaf of bread or case of canned goods? What would they do if they knew you had food in your home while they had nothing?
I think we all know the answer to this question. If people are willing to assault another human being over a vegetable steamer, they will definitely lay siege to your home if you have food and they do not.
You can stockpile until you have a decade of supplies put back, but if you can’t defend it, you don’t actually own it. You only have your carefully collected supplies and preps because no one has bothered taking them away from you yet. You have what you have based on the goodwill of others, who are stronger, greater in number, more ruthless, and better armed. When everyone else is doing it and there’s little to no chance of legal consequences, these crazy Black Friday shoppers will look as harmless as a bunch of little old ladies playing Bingo.
You may not like hearing this, but you need only to check out the videos above to realize how thin the veneer of our civilization really is.
Do you have any other videos that should be included in this collection? Be sure to share a link in the comments below.
http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/black-friday-2015-video-hall-of-shame-11272015
They’re idiots. Stand aside and watch ’em kill each other.
It’s probably becoming a sport for some people. They might start showing up wearing helmets and shoulder pads. And don’t forget the brass knuckles. You NEED brass knuckles these days if want that Tickle-Me-Elmo doll.
Knuckle-heads.
This is so shameful and disgusting. I use to love Christmas. Now it’s become an extreme sport of consumerism. Yes Daisy, you’re right. Imagine if these people were hungry and looking for food. I said this to my daughter last night as we were viewing the first videos of the Black Friday madness. Arm up, buy more ammo!
That video with the chick stealing from the child looks so staged, there was way too many boxes of that steamer on the floor just sitting there to justify stealing from anyone and the woman and child already had those 3 steamers in their arms before people started grabbing them.
Plus many people who went to Wallmart for black Friday said that the stores had blocked off a majority of their isles and kept certain sale items in odd areas which had made navigating the store difficult and stressful. These reports made me think that there was nowhere near as many shoppers this year and were forcing the narrative that it was hordes of people fighting for stuff.
Hi Daisy. Happy Holidays. Best to you and yours.
Spent Black Friday having lunch with my SO in a redwood grove overlooking the Pacific.
Never would cross my mind to attend a fiasco as Black Friday with all those bottom feeders.
Be safe….stay the course….BA.
The beauty of small towns is the noticeable absence of massive crowds at the local stores on any day of the year. I went to the Bi-Mart yesterday afternoon, bought a hooded sweatshirt and a scarf (it’s 26 degrees out right now), and had a total of ONE person in line in front of me at the checkout. Couldn’t have been more than a couple dozen people in the store.
The downside is that I have to drive to the next town (or the next one after that) for a number of things that aren’t available here.
Can’t even pay my phone/internet bill here.
Worth it, though, to be out of L.A., and into these beautiful mountains, away from the insanity of big cities.
STILL hate snow though. None so far, but predicted for Friday.
Which is why I live in the far west Texas mountains. Which is why I Christmas shop the week before or online (but no longer at Amazon, since they banned the book which tells the truth about Sandy Hook…I am boycotting Amazon). In fact, not even sure I should even celebrate Christmas–no way was Jesus born on December 25 (but I know a lot of pagan false gods who were!)
Peace on Earth, good will toward men. What a crock.
Hahaha! I love how the Walmart videos are filmed by Mexicans (listen to the narrations). Just goes to prove that Walmart is where all the Mexicans go to shop.