Black Friday 2013: Brawls, Trampling, Shootings

To those out looking for a bargain, Black Friday can seem like the best day of the year. Which it might be. If it wasn’t for all the fighting, and trampling, and tazing, and stabbings, and shootings.

Come on, America. Is a cheap TV, $99 tablet or a free pair of socks with every purchase worth all that mess? And, in some instances, violence?

Below is just a selection of some of the chaos people are reporting from this year’s sales, with most predictably coming from Walmart stores.

The saddest may be from Romeoville, though, where police have shot a suspected shoplifter following a botched escape that left another police officer injured.

Some news stations are also reporting crazy and disturbing scenes:P

Reports of a shooting at an Illinois Kohl’sP
A man was viciously stabbed over a…parking spot.

Is it really worth it!?

Fist fight over xBox at Jordan Creek Walmart. #BlackFriday #WalmartFights

— Jason Murray (@Murray49J) November 29, 2013

#WalmartFights pic.twitter.com/XToifDUU0i

— iTweetFacts™ (@iTweetFacts) November 29, 2013

Aftermath of what looks like tsunami. But was mob leaving #Walmart. #WalmartFights

fight broke out at walmart and the ambulance had to come #phillyforya pic.twitter.com/pQKABqq1Fs
— Jamie Coogan (@j_coogs18) November 29, 2013

#WalmartFights Earrrlyyyyy
https://twitter.com/Stackztootrill/status/406359136364789761
— Stackz makin hitz (@Stackztootrill) November 29, 2013