Thread Of The Day

HipForums.com have a section in their forum dedicated for boycotting companies, organizations, countries due to consumer and human rights violations.

There you can see typical pleas to boycott McDonalds, Wal-Mart, plastic bags, products made in China, etc.

Apparently they are running out of things to boycott. One members suggests that we boycott women based on the actions of one, Sue Basso.

Here is the thread:

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=322024&f=524

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Early this morning, a Long Island Wal-Mart employee was crushed to death by an overanxious crowd of Black Friday shoppers. Apparently the crowd grew so large, the doors could no longer contain them. When the doors broke off their hinges, the crowd poured in like water through a broken dam. Unfortunately, the worker was standing in the wrong place at the wrong time.

In today’s thread, the members of gottadeal.com discuss this tragic event:

http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=128223

Human stampede deaths are something you expect to hear about in third world countries, not “civilized” countries like ours.

I looked at all the major store ads for Black Friday, including Wal-Mart, and can’t figure out what the big deal is. There were a few decent bargains, but nothing spectacular that I would call a “doorbuster”.

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Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. Major retailers such as Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target, Circuit City, Toys R Us, Sears, Kmart, Staples, Kohl’s, etc. have great bargains to jump start the Christmas shopping season. Laptop computers and flat panel televisions are popular items on this day.

To get the best deals, you have to be in the stores early. Some people even go to the store on Thursday night after their Thanksgiving meal to wait in line outside of a store. In many parts of the country it can be quite cold.

The members in this forum thread at GottaDeal.com are those people. Here they discuss what they will be wearing.

http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=124543

I plan on wearing my pajamas, sheets, blankets, and pillows, on a queen size bed, surrounded by walls and a roof. I might reconsider if somebody is giving away 65″ tvs to everyone in line.

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The forums at TheTruckersReport.com is a gathering spot for truck drivers. Truckers have seen lots of crazy things on the road. Many of them they wish they hadn’t.

In today’s thread they discuss this fatal accident on Donner’s Pass that was caught on video by a Wal-Mart driver’s dash cam.

Here is the thread:

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucking-accident-reports/54617-dramatic-footage-double-fatality-donners-truck.html

Kudos to the Wal-Mart driver. He seems experienced and totally under control in this scary situation. It’s a shame the newly licensed driver of the other rig won’t get a chance to gain the same experience.

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ThreadOfTheDay.com is finally back. I took much more time off from the computer than anticipated.

We start back with this thread at RipOffReport.com. It has been going on for years, and would take hours to read every single post, especially the ramblings of the man who started it.

He got caught eating merchandise at Wal-Mart and not paying for it. He claims he did pay and thinks pounding on his Bible hard enough will convince everybody else.  He claims Wal-Mart is out to get Christians and mentions what a good Christian he is thousands of time throughout this thread. It is people like him that give true Christians a bad name. He has traced his bloodline to Daniel Boone, so somehow that is supposed to prove his innocence.

He obviously isn’t telling the whole story. He says the merchandise was only $11, but he was hauled off to jail in another county. To me it sounds like he must have a previous record or maybe even warrants. He even states that after he was caught, he offered to pay for any alleged merchandise his “illness” may have caused him to forget, but he knows for a fact that he paid for everything.

Shoplifters always offer to pay after they know they are busted. In their mind, they think that makes it less of a crime. If that was the case, everybody would be doing it. Just go in the store and take whatever you want, the worse that can happen is you have to pay for it.

Here is the thread:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/138/RipOff0138892.htm

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