20 Most Insane Black Friday Incidents

From riots and stampedes to parking spot disputes gone wrong, nothing good ever seems to come from Black Friday. For this list, we're looking at violent outbreaks, fights and accidents that have turned a shopping holiday into utter madness. Our countdown includes Urban Outfitters Riot (2011), Marine Injured at Best Buy (2010), Late Night Mugging (2011), Stampede Kills Walmart Employee (2008), and more. What do you think of Black Friday? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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[DominickRuocco]

This video is exactly why I NEVER go out on Black Friday and I do most of my shopping online. The money you save isn't worth the hassle of dealing with these animals.

[AMGBVG]

This is probably the reason online shopping has the advantage over in person Black Friday shopping

[killval]

It's really showing how sad and primal humans can get when it comes to greed. How ironic, from celebrating a holiday to be thankful for and for giving back, the next day they go out and step over people like they're roadkill. Absolutely obscene, it breaks my heart that humans can sink that low.

[JazzCabbageLogic]

To those men and women that work in the retail industry, I salute you for putting up with this annual insanity.

[carloscatarino]

I work at a supermarket, and during the Covid lockdown I watched massive brawls over toilet paper and hand sanitizer. People literally beat each other senseless and a few times the police was forced to employ pepper spray to break these fights. Me and my co-workers once had to intervene to prevent an old lady from being choked by another elderly woman. Things like these makes you lose faith in humanity.

[nicholasstocker]

Man, 2011 was quite the craziest Black Friday year.

[podsmpsg]

That's exactly why I avoid those places on Black Friday. None of that stuff is worth getting hurt, arrested or even killed over.

[zanerichards]

Thanksgiving: the day to be thankful for what you have.
Black Friday: (the very next day) a day to be greedy and violent trying to get more stuff.

[spacegun]

As a retail worker I can’t tell you how happy i am that its 2022 and we got online shopping at it’s finest

[timothyw]

The opening act of the Thanksgiving movie is like this and is the most terrifying things I've seen.

[katies]

My mom hid me under a table at a Boston store in like 2008 because of how insane it was, and there were deadass 2 other kids already down there💀 Nathan and Onikka, if you’re still out there… I never forgot y’all ❤️

[ryproar]

As a retail worker I have hundreds of stories of the horrible things I saw during black Friday.
One year 2 people died when they got trampled in my store over tvs... A TV ended 2 lives.
No object is worth your life.

[steventicknor]

As a deputy I had to stop two people fighting over a parking spot at a local clothing store having a big sale in the summer several years ago. Funny thing is they knew each other from church making it just crazy that a parking spot would lead to such chaos.

[alexishall]

I vividly remember the NY Walmart stampede in 2008 on the news. It was nuts!

[sphinxkoeune]

I feel sorry for the employees at these stores during Black Friday

[amberd]

The fact that a little over half of these incidents occurred at Wal-Mart just affirms my decision to avoid that store like the plague on Black Friday.

[Mtn_Dewit]

This is why I will always do my Black Friday shopping online.

[momboys]

Sixty years on this planet and I have never, EVER shopped on Black Friday.
I'm always on the lookout for a good bargain but that insanity is just not worth it.

[tfrowlett]

One funny story I heard was a guy who camped outside a store for four days so he could get a plasma tv, but when they opened the store, the tvs were gone. It turns out they opened the garden section 10 seconds before the main doors so people went through the garden section and snatched up all the tvs in 10 seconds flat.

[redemption]

I feel bad for anyone who had a shift in those stores at that time...