Yesterday morning, on Black Friday, an unidentified woman in a Walmart in Northridge, California (police are still looking for her) turned on her fellow shoppers and sprayed a bunch of them in the face with pepper spray. They were competing to get some kind of electronic
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equipment, an Xpad or an Ibox or something like that. I don’t even try to keep up with the new gadgets nowadays.
How could such a thing happen? Well, a combination of factors. There’s this whole “Black Friday” thing. I guess if I’d been sleeping on the sidewalk and got up at some ungodly hour in the morning to join in the rugby scrum in front of a Walmart, I might be feeling a bit cranky, too. Which is why I don’t do that sort of thing.
Come to think of it, though, if the stores wanted to make Black Friday a more pleasant experience, they could lay on a bit of free entertainment for the campers, carolers and such, and hand out some goody bags with free samples and snacks. I’m sure the good will and the free advertising would more than offset their expenses.
I don’t know, haven’t lived in the States a while, maybe they do that and people turn into raging wild animals anyway.
The second thing is that the police have been using pepper spray on the OWS people pretty indiscriminately, and people are easily led. Monkey see, monkey do. It’s the in thing.
That explains her choice of weapon, but not the actual assault.
The reason for that is that the woman who did this (I hope they catch her, but unless there was a clear shot on in-house video and somebody recognizes her, they never will. The police never catch anybody unless somebody tells them where to look and sometimes not even then. CSI, Criminal Minds and NCIS are beyond fiction, they are total fantasies.) was a bad person. Nasty, vicious, violent, selfish and mean. The Grinch was selfish and mean, but he didn’t blast little Cindy Loo Hoo in the face with toxic chemicals. Even Scrooge didn’t do that.
The part I can’t figure out is how a person like that gets so into Christmas. It’s supposed to be a time of Peace on Earth, Good will to all Men, Joy to the World, all that stuff. Somehow, pepper spray seems a little bit counter to the spirit of the whole thing.
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