FIRST rule of Black Friday: People WATCH YOU put the shit you JUST BOUGHT in your CAR.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Call it a case of consumerism bringing out the worst in people.

Three women in West Palm Beach, Florida, say $1,000 worth of Best Buy merchandise was stolen from their car Friday morning within minutes of being purchased, according to CNN affiliate WPBF.

The women were the first people at Best Buy after camping out since Wednesday night.

After they made their purchases, they put them in the car and went to JC Penney. A few minutes later, they returned, and the goods were gone.

"I mean, we've been camping since Wednesday," a tearful Shereece Francis told WPBF. "Just cruel, just wicked."

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/26/thefts-stampedes-make-black-friday-blue-for-some/?hpt=Sbin

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. They also drive by your house and see the empty boxes

Then they know what's INSIDE and worth stealing.

My dad always harped on this at Christmas and made us bag up every empty box before we put it in the trash.

[liberal N proud]

2. Black Friday is a criminals wet dream

With the large crowds in the stores, shoplifting is so much easier.
With idiots putting their newly purchased electronics in their automobiles in daylight while returning to shopping makes it easy target in the parking lots.
With so many out shopping and the police patrolling the crowded malls, the homes are sitting unattended.

But here is one I witnessed today. The door opened, the masses rushed in, one guy grabbed all the X-Box games, then proceeded to sell them right there. People had to pay him so they could buy a game. The store security caught him and got the remaining games away from him but he ran off.

[CreekDog]

3. it's not fair, but protect yourself...if you're going to do that, at least move the car somewhere

so people don't see you putting expensive stuff in a car and then leaving it.

or just take your "kill" home and not risk going in for more.

i can't even shop on Black Friday, I can barely get onto the parking lots.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. Or bring a friend to "car sit"...

...if I had to go store-to-store in a mall, that's how I'd do it. Bribe them with lunch or something.

[Renew Deal]

4. She missed Thanksgiving and spent 2 nights on the street?

That's idiotic as it gets.

[Arctic Dave]

8. +1

Suck it hyper consumerism! LOL

[Canuckistanian]

6. Why?

Why do people do this? Turn a perfectly good holiday into a quest for more junk.

Do these people have no friends or families?

Is life truly so much about what you own that everything else is ignored?

[Bobbieo]

7. Why? How about GREED?

[Jackpine Radical]

10. You Canadians just don't get it, do you?

That's why you're destined to remain a third-world country, what with wasting half your income on universal health care and social safety nets and all that other socialist foolishness.

:sarcasm: <---(in case it's necessary; I don't want to start an international crisis with a DU post.)

[beyurslf]

9. We are avid Black Friday shoppers in my family. It is a Thanksgiving ritual

to get out the ads (and now to get online) to map out where we will go and for what. Some years (like this one) we get very little. We still go for the "fun" of it. In years that we are getting a lot, my mom's husband or my brother in law come in another car. After our first "main haul" they take the loot home so it is safe and then we continue on our way. In small years like this one, we don't worry about it since we didn't buy anything worth stealing. LOL