That's Not So Bad I Guess

So a woman in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb was passionate about buying a new XBox for cheap at the local Walmart on Thanksgiving night. Feeling a need to jockey for every conceivable advantage, and in the true spirit of the holidays, she sprayed pepper spray on about 20 other shoppers to keep them away, causing varieties of discomfort and injury.

Police didn't catch her, apparently, and Walmart officials, at least according to the AP report I was just reading on the Duluth News-Tribune web site, are cooperating in the investigation.

The absurdity of it all is probably not lost on most of us, and the story as I was reading it was not news to me. I had read it earlier this morning.

It was this sentence in the AP story that most caught my attention:

"It was the only major violence reported at a Southern California store involving Black Friday Thanksgiving holiday sales"

We can rest easy, I guess, knowing that Black Friday (or is it now going to be Black Thursday, too?) violence was held reasonably in check this year, at least in Southern California.