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Crazed shoppers pile up at Target

Updated: Friday, 26 Nov 2010, 6:23 PM EST
Published : Friday, 26 Nov 2010, 6:58 AM EST

Nalina Shapiro
Posted by: Emily Lenihan
Video at the Link

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Shoppers waited out in the cold wet weather for hours. When the doors opened at 4 a.m. the Black Friday chaos turned ugly.

Seconds after the doors opened, something went dangerously wrong. Crazed Black Friday shoppers began piling up on each other.

"It went from controlled to a mob in less than five minutes and it just got nasty," said a shopper.

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When officials heard the screams, they ran over right away to help.

Shopper Rich Mathewson said, "It was a lot of angry people just jumping in after we waited patiently for a long time. It actually started way before that, people started getting angry at everybody."

After it happened, one man bent over in pain but he took off into the North Buffalo Target store seconds later, along with everyone else. Seconds after the pile up, shoppers got back to business. News 4 called store officials to see if anyone was injured, but no one was available to comment.

Target released this response following the incident:
The safety of our guests and team members is a top priority. We take this incident very seriously. Target plans well in advance of Black Friday and employs numerous crowd management tactics to prevent incidents. We continually analyze and improve those plans, and will do so in this case, to help ensure a safe and enjoyable shopping experience.

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What do they expect when they advertise the sales as "doorbusters"!?!

Black Friday is nothing but GREED!

The sales get earlier trying to beat competition

Years ago Black Friday did not exist and sales were still very high.

STOP BLACK FRIDAY! Thanksgiving is for family and now they have family working.

I think we may have made a wrong turn somewhere Margaret!

Needs to be renamed to "Idiot Friday".

Absolutely unbelievable People RUNNING to spend their money as fast as they can WTF!@#$%^&^%$# are these Idiots thinking The bible says that money Is the root of all evil.... this seems to be the case In spades now In our society...

Actually, the bible says: The love of money is the root of all evil.
Nothing wrong with having money as long as it doesn't have you. I think that is what's wrong with society is that money has them as a slave.

Originally Posted by partwerks

Actually, the bible says: The love of money is the root of all evil.
Nothing wrong with having money as long as it doesn't have you. I think that is what's wrong with society is that money has them as a slave.

Yep and they'll sell us all up the river to make that money.

Originally Posted by topsecret10

Absolutely unbelievable People RUNNING to spend their money as fast as they can V****V!@#$%^&^%$# are these Idiots thinking The bible says that money Is the root of all evil.... this seems to be the case In spades now In our society...

and this is why so many people are oblivious to the fact that we've been invaded by Mexico. As long as they have their TV and internet and video games all is right in the world.