At an LA-area Wal-Mart today, one shopper pepper sprayed rival bargain hunters, and the horde tore down the video game stands. #Occupy Aisle 13! But Wal-Mart's reckless encouragement of Black Friday stampedes—it sounds whistles in stores to kick them off—isn't always a joke. [LA Times]
Wal-Mart Black Friday shopper pepper-sprays rivals
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