YouTube has a growing and phenomenal collection of Black Friday pandemonium videos from Wal-Marts all across the nation. I’ve pasted a couple of them here for your own amusement/revulsion. Until I looked a bit more closely at them, I kept thinking they were all the same video of the same redneck riot at the same Wal-Mart. And, in a way, I’m still totally right.

This first one, a melee for $2 waffle irons down in Arkansas, went ebola viral today. No wonder people brought their own goddamned pepper spray. (Dare! Listen to all four videos at once and then take an IQ test! How did you do?)

Denis C. Theriault is the Portland Mercury's News Editor. He writes stories about City Hall and the Portland Police Bureau, focusing on issues like homelessness, police oversight, insider politics, and...

12 replies on “This Is What Naked, Striving, Ugly Humanity Looks Like”

  1. Listen to the incessant shrieking and tell me we didn’t evolve from monkeys. Maybe if someone had starting flinging feces, they would have gotten a few more waffle makers.

  2. So, riots with people doing actual violence, and not a single riot cop in sight; no baton jabs, no tear gas, no horses charging into the crowd. What, I wonder, makes these scenes so much more acceptable to police than peaceful demonstrations?

  3. “So, riots with people doing actual violence, and not a single riot cop in sight; no baton jabs, no tear gas, no horses charging into the crowd. What, I wonder, makes these scenes so much more acceptable to police than peaceful demonstrations?”

    Goddamn, i could not possibly agree MORE!

  4. NWSpirit and Damosa, you guys know damn well that the cops do not give a shit when poor people inflict violence against each other.

    Year after year this happens at Walmarts all across the country, yet they never seem to bother with hiring extra security.

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