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    Cat fight over "Tickle Me Elmo" doll

    I'm trying to cheer myself up after hearing about the poor Walmart employee who got trampled to death. I left a very angry post. Anyway, here's the story....
    Back in the late 90s, the "Tickle Me Elmo" dolls were coming out. I had just started working for Target the following summer after this incident happened. The security guard told us that there was 1 doll left, and 2 full grown women got into a fist fight over itm beating the crap out of each other for a stupid doll! Well, the police came and arrested them both, and another lady wound up buying it right in front of them as they were escorted by police out the door! Good, they deserved it! I'm surprised 1 lady didn't try to kill the other one. You just never know in today's sick world!
    Anyone who would get into a fight over some stupid doll, or who would stomp all over an employee just to get a discount off a tv, deserves to burn in hell! Customers suck, but Black Friday Customers are all evil demons! They should do away with these sales permanently if people can't learn to control themselves!
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    This post DESERVES this video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvxLOq2-3x4

    Enjoy, and remember Elmo

    Edit: Fixed link
    "That's too bad. Hospitals aren't fun to fight through."
    "What IS fun to fight through?"
    "Gardens. Electronics shops. Antique stores, but only if they're classy."

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    • #3
      I though that link was going to be this video (NSFW).

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      • #4
        Quoth KhirasHY View Post
        This post DESERVES this video:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvxLOq2-3x4

        Enjoy, and remember Elmo

        Edit: Fixed link
        Yeah, that's just bloody creapy and slightly disturbing.
        I am but a tiny, barren, insignificant rock caught in the glorious orbit of your shining sun. Gravekeeper.

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        • #5
          Quoth BowserKoopa1 View Post
          Anyone who would get into a fight over some stupid doll, or who would stomp all over an employee just to get a discount off a tv, deserves to burn in hell!
          This happens every year. There is always some have to have toy product that precious can't live without. Parents go ape $hit over and are willing to do anything to procure said item, during the shopping season.

          I wonder if it has anything to do with our latent hunter gatherer genes. Must...capture...elmo...the future of the tribe depends on it bwahahah
          Tamezin

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          • #6
            When I was younger, people were having fist fights over those stupid Cabbage Patch Dolls. I don't get it either, but I guess it's that "I need to get it for my kid so their Christmas will be perfect!" mentality.

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            • #7
              Quoth KhirasHY View Post
              This post DESERVES this video:

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvxLOq2-3x4

              Enjoy, and remember Elmo

              Edit: Fixed link
              OMG!!! That is is disturbing and funny at the same time!

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              • #8
                Quoth Thatgirl71 View Post
                When I was younger, people were having fist fights over those stupid Cabbage Patch Dolls. I don't get it either, but I guess it's that "I need to get it for my kid so their Christmas will be perfect!" mentality.
                I was little during the Beanie Baby craze. My mom witnessed a grown man take a Beanie Baby right out of a little kid's hands. Dunno how that one ended, but that was just mean.
                I am no longer of capable of the emotion you humans call “compassion”. Though I can feign it in exchange for an hourly wage. (Gravekeeper)

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                • #9
                  On the "World's Dumbest Shoppers" program I watched Thursday night, they showed a grown man crying because he was able to get his hands on a Tickle Me Elmo for his kid(s).

                  One of the celebrity commenters said it best: If you as an adult cry over a little kid's toy, cut your nuts off and put them in a jar.

                  Quoth Thatgirl71
                  When I was younger, people were having fist fights over those stupid Cabbage Patch Dolls.
                  That was also on the show. There was a girl crying because she had a Cabbage Patch doll yanked out of her arms by an adult, and this old lady next to her was pontificating about the whole thing. "How sad. Is this what Christmas has become?"

                  She said this with a Cabbage Patch doll under her own arm and didn't offer it to the sobbing child.
                  Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth BowserKoopa1 View Post
                    I'm trying to cheer myself up after hearing about the poor Walmart employee who got trampled to death.
                    It's a Walmart in New York. Is it really that much of a surprise.

                    Quoth BowserKoopa1 View Post
                    The security guard told us that there was 1 doll left, and 2 full grown women got into a fist fight over itm beating the crap out of each other for a stupid doll!
                    While the suckieness of the customers is the same, this isn't quite the same situation. With the Elmo dolls, it was a case of the stores not being able to get enough. Walmart deliberately created the panic situation by having a short supply of loss leaders.
                    Proud to be a Walmart virgin.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
                      On the "World's Dumbest Shoppers" program I watched Thursday night, they showed a grown man crying because he was able to get his hands on a Tickle Me Elmo for his kid(s).

                      One of the celebrity commenters said it best: If you as an adult cry over a little kid's toy, cut your nuts off and put them in a jar.



                      That was also on the show. There was a girl crying because she had a Cabbage Patch doll yanked out of her arms by an adult, and this old lady next to her was pontificating about the whole thing. "How sad. Is this what Christmas has become?"

                      She said this with a Cabbage Patch doll under her own arm and didn't offer it to the sobbing child.
                      '
                      I love Smoking Gun! My fave on that one was the lady who got her wig knocked off and put it back on before getting up and out of the way of trampling feet.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth tamezin View Post
                        This happens every year. There is always some have to have toy product that precious can't live without. Parents go ape $hit over and are willing to do anything to procure said item, during the shopping season.
                        And the sad part is, the kids probably get tired of the toy in question a week later.

                        Quoth Thatgirl71 View Post
                        When I was younger, people were having fist fights over those stupid Cabbage Patch Dolls.
                        I remember that as well. I don't know if that was the first time a fight broke out over a toy, but that was the first I ever heard of it.

                        Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
                        One of the celebrity commenters said it best: If you as an adult cry over a little kid's toy, cut your nuts off and put them in a jar.
                        A very small jar.
                        Sometimes life is altered.
                        Break from the ropes your hands are tied.
                        Uneasy with confrontation.
                        Won't turn out right. Can't turn out right

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                        • #13
                          The store I worked in actually kept those TMX Elmo dolls behind the CS desk and had regular raffles for the chance to purchase one. It did work to prevent fist fights over that doll because the drawing was random and customers had to be present in order to buy that doll.

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                          • #14
                            this is why i liked one of the stores i use to shop at.... they took pains to avoid customer fights, by drawing a lottery... the people who won the lottery had the chance to buy the toy.

                            thus, they never had any fights over the toys.

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                            • #15
                              I worked at FAO during the Furbie insanity . For a two weeks before I cracked. They had a reserved list started before Thanksgiving. Then two weeks before Christmas they decided to limit all people on the list to 1 Furbie only. After they had been told a month before they could get up to three. That was fun to explain to the everyone.
                              Manipulating others since 1979.

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