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Fri, 25 Nov 2005

You’d think this was a UNICEF food-drop

The U.S. has a long way to go to reach British levels of mob depravity, but this piece from South Flordia is a heartening indication that we won’t be left in their dust forever.

“Black Friday,” the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, began in South Florida early today with a 73-year-old woman being knocked down as a crowd at an electronics store rushed a metal security gate to get inside. The crowd of shoppers outside BrandsMart USA in Sawgrass Mills, angry at being forced to wait by security personnel, pushed their way under the security gate and down a hallway into the store, forcing dozens of people against the walls and trampling the woman.

This is the third or fourth (at least) consumer-riot that Drudge has linked to in the past few days.