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6 Of The Worst Black Friday Shopping Stampedes Nov 17th 2012, 12:58 Some call post-Thanksgiving shopping “America’s Running of the Bull.” Here are 6 horrible Black Friday stampedes — all in the past 6 years. Philedelphia cops in the 1960s first used Black Friday to describe the hellscape of snarled traffic and Christmas-shopping stampedes the day after thanksgiving. In the 1980s the unofficial holiday was cheerfully rebranded as the day when retailers’ checkbooks slid “back in the black.” Some folks on the interwebs prefer to call it “America’s Running of the Bull”. Whatever the case, here’s how not to shop after Thanksgiving. 2011, Thousand Oaks, CA Shrieking hordes tear into an Urban Outfitters at midnight. The Ring Wraiths from Return of the King recorded this awful sound as their ring tones and sang it to their baby wraithlets at dusk. View Entire List ›

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