Black Friday Riots and Mayhem...........

[BLOCK F]

kinell......massive bum cheeks parted......aiming at people like THAT.....ffs...

That made me laugh!
Shame it wasn't the young lady featuring on your avatar!

 

[W.C.]

That won't give the stores free advertising by getting on the news though.

Abso-bloody-exactly.

 

[El Sid]

We're just about to leave Asda....

 

[Peteinblack]

So we want to quit the EU, partly to defend or restore BRITISH identity...but then adopt every stupid bit of American culture we can?

A lot of the British public are utter morons - mindless consumer sheep; they'd buy a fresh dog turd if it had a designer label or '75% off' sticker on it.s

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

As the blessed Saint Bono once sang: 'Tonight thank God it's them instead of you'

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Black Friday may come from America, but we've had our own version for decades with people camping out on Christmas night, just to get the 'bargains' in the Boxing Day sales.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

What a load of American influenced tosh, may I be controversial and suggest all the areas listed below with disturbances are mainly in deprived areas. You won't catch me wasting my life in such a way.


Police have been called to supermarkets across the UK amid crowd surges as people hunt for "Black Friday" offers.
Greater Manchester Police appealed for calm after attending seven Tesco shops, at which three men were arrested and a woman was hit by a falling television.
The force said the issues were "totally predictable" and it was "disappointed" by shop security. Tesco said only a "small number" of stores were affected.
Police were called in places including Dundee, Glasgow, Cardiff and London.

Originating in the US, Black Friday is becoming a major UK shopping day.

Shoppers fight over a TV in a supermarket
Staff tried to keep order as customers competed over items including televisions
Police in Manchester tweeted: "At least two people arrested at #BlackFriday sales events already this morning. Keep calm people!"
The force said there had been "disturbances" at the seven Tesco stores. Incidents included:
About 200 shoppers refused to leave a store in Middleton "despite being told stock had all gone"
Fights broke out between shoppers in Stretford, and a woman suffered "minor injuries" after being hit by a falling television. The store was closed at 00:36 GMT
A man was arrested in Salford after he threatened to "smash a staff member's face in"
In Wigan, officers were called to reports of "several hundred people trying to enter the store". Police added: "Two men were ejected before control was regained"
There were reports of fighting in a store in Hattersley, where a man was arrested for a public order offence
A man was arrested for assault at a store in Green End
Police at Cardiff Tesco store
Police were called to a Tesco store in Cardiff as crowds gathered for Black Friday deals
Staff handing out stock to a crowd of customers in Asda
Thousands of people visited stores overnight to get Black Friday offers
In London, police were called by both Tesco staff and queuing shoppers as people gathered at the Glover Drive store in Edmonton.
Officers also attended Tesco stores in Willesden and Surrey Quays.

The Metropolitan Police said officers worked with staff to "ensure that sale-goers were able to enter and exit the stores safely", and said no-one had been injured "as a result of the overcrowding".

Sgt Paul Marshall, a Metropolitan Police officer, tweeted: "Even on #BlackFriday shoving people to the floor so you can get £20 off a Coffee Maker is still an assault."
Crowd control
In South Wales, police said they were called by concerned staff at a number of Tesco stores.
A spokesman said officers were twice called to Tesco in Excelsior Road, Cardiff, just after midnight, when concerns were raised about customer conduct inside the shop. No arrests were made.Crowds left many shelves empty at a Tesco store in Cardiff
Police were called to Tesco at Silverburn in the Pollok area of Glasgow about 11:45 GMT on Thursday after staff reported scuffles among several customers.
The store was closed for a period, and footage from the scene shows shoppers shoving each other as they attempt to grab items from trolleys.

Police were also called to the Tesco in Kingsway, Dundee, to help with crowd control.
Avon and Somerset Police said they were called after scuffles in the queue at Tesco in Brislington, Bristol, at about midnight.
The BBC's Zoe Conway tweeted a picture of a woman on her knees with the words: "Customers knocked to the ground in the rush at Asda Wembley #BlackFriday."
A woman on her knees, having fallen over in a supermarket
Customers were "knocked to the ground" at Asda in Wembley
Shoppers compete to purchase retail items on "Black Friday" at an Asda superstore in Wembley
Asda in Wembley was one of many UK supermarkets where Black Friday deals led to chaotic scenes
Sir Peter Fahy, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, said he was "disappointed that stores did not have sufficient security staff on duty".
"Across Greater Manchester large supermarkets already make significant demands on policing through calls to shoplifting, anti-social behaviour and thefts of fuel from their petrol stations - much of which is preventable," he said.
"We just ask these stores to work with us to reduce the demands on policing and reduce the risks of disorder and crime."

load of
Regards
DR

 

[kevo]

Oh you can when they scrabble around on the floor fighting their neighbours for a 39inch TV and then moaning about not having money to have a proper Christmas whilst sparking up a fag.

So many blind assumptions in that statement I don't know where to start. Never mind, keep on reading the Daily Mail and watching Benefits Street so you can sneer on people with less money than you.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

So many blind assumptions in that statement I don't know where to start. Never mind, keep on reading the Daily Mail and watching Benefits Street so you can sneer on people with less money than you.

I take your point but Greedy must have people come from all walks of life
regards
DR

 

[kevo]

I take your point but Greedy must have people come from all walks of life
regards
DR

I don't think you can equate the people who buy food in the reduced isle sections of supermarkets to the greedy scrambling round for cheap tellies we've seen today. Sad to say, there are people who buy the cheapest food they can because they have to.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

I don't think you can equate the people who buy food in the reduced isle sections of supermarkets to the greedy scrambling round for cheap tellies we've seen today. Sad to say, there are people who buy the cheapest food they can because they have to.

don't be so nieve kevo there's plenty out there who live for the discounts
regards
DR

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I see people in the supermarket all the time 'festering' the reduced section, gorging on their purchase of a lattice steak pie which was reduced to £1.30 becuase it goes out of date tomorrow.

Assuming you are partial to a lattice steak pie, why would you NOT do that?

 

[seagull_in_malaysia]

To be honest I'd rather pay full price for something than have to fight over it in that mob.

 

[Nibble]

I occasionally buy the reduced items if there's something that tickles my fancy. A far cry from joining a lot of poor, fat, black, screaming women kicking each other in the clump to get their hands on a flatscreen.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Assuming you are partial to a lattice steak pie, why would you NOT do that?

maybe it isn't that important, I don't mind a bargain but i wouldn' t make a point of turning up late to pick up a going out of date purchase
regards
DR

 

[Return of the Rev]

Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.

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[Pavilionaire]

To be perfectly honest I love to watch a good chav bust-up on the news.

 

[symyjym]

Black Friday may come from America, but we've had our own version for decades with people camping out on Christmas night, just to get the 'bargains' in the Boxing Day sales.

Americans do it because it's a public holiday, just as we do on Boxing Day so many may see using this time off as convenience.

With Black Friday coming over here it makes you wonder how many people took a sicky today, or whether it is just for the unemployed. Either way it is not an official day off so it's not a natural progression. If we want to do something similar in the UK we should have a Black Saturday on the last Saturday of the month.

 

[sydney]

That made me laugh!
Shame it wasn't the young lady featuring on your avatar!

gotta laugh ...!! ffs....:longlaugh: twatts............new avatar on the way..

 

[JBizzleBeard]

C's of the highest order! As has been said earlier, I too would rather pay full price than get anywhere near this cluster fark of a day.