THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS THEY CALL IT BLACK FRIDAY. NOT BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THE PPL, BUT BECAUSE OF ALL THE NEGATIVE THINGS THAT HAPPENED AND ARE STILL HAPPENING. People lose all kind of respect for themselves and others forgetting what X-mas is all about. Black Friday is the name given to the shopping day after Thanksgiving. Thanks giving is the 4th Thursday in November. It was originally called Black Friday because so many people went out to shop that it caused traffic accidents and a lot of violence. It is as if ppl lose their minds, stop reasoning and go crazy. It was first recorded in 1966 by Earl Apfelbaum, a dealer in rare stamps. In his ad, he said Black Friday is the name that the Philadelphia Police Department gave to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. It is not a term of endearment to them. Black Friday officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing. The Police Department coined the phrase to describe the mayhem surrounding the congestion of pedestrian and auto traffic in the Center City downtown area. There is also a black Monday and has to do with a drop in the stock market. Nut also a black Thursday which is the day noted as the beginning of the great depression. Both are a one time thing. Here in Aruba we also call Easter Monday Black Monday. This is because of the amount of traffic accident related deaths that occurred in the past on this day. All these days signify a negative day. No wonder retailers wanted to make the name Black Friday mean something positive. And, to them, the Friday after Thanksgiving is a very profitable day. To compensate, they decided to follow the old adage, If you cant beat em, join em. They used the name to reflect their success. Accountants generally use black to signify profit when recording each days book entries. Red is used to signify loss. Therefore, Black Friday means profitable Friday to retailing and to the economy. he worst Black Friday occurred in 2008, when a man was trampled to death. Despite being 65 and 270 pounds, temporary worker Jdimytai Damour died of asphyxiation when crowds stampeded into another Wal-Mart (this time in New York). At least 2,000 people broke down the doors, trapping Damour in a vestibule where he suffocated. Eleven other people were also injured, including a pregnant woman. It seems the police have a right to call Black Friday by a negative name. Article updated November 16, 2014 Tp avoid this stores sometimes call the police for extra security and close for a while untill things calm down. Black Friday crowds hunting bargains still give the police headaches. In 2013, police shot a Chicago Kohl’s shoplifter as he fled in his car -- dragging an office who was halfway into the vehicle. The most violence seems to occur at Walmart, In 2012, two people were shot outside of a Walmart in Tallahassee Florida. They were fighting over a parking space. Walmarts consumer electronics department seems to be the most dangerous place. In 2011, a woman pepper-sprayed a crowd at a Walmart in Los Angeles. She was trying to get a Wii for 60% off. The year before, crowds at a Sacramento Walmart forced the store to evacuate when they started pushing and shoving to get deals on consumer electronics at 5:30 am. On Black Friday 2009, another California Walmart, this time in Rancho Cucamonga, needed police protection from unruly crowds -- again, in the early-morning hours in the consumer electronics department. The store was briefly closed a few hours after another store in nearby Upland was closed.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:38:30 +0000
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