The most terrible and funny stories that happened on Black Friday

At the end of November, the biggest sale takes place - Black Friday. The annual promotion lasts several days and is famous for its large discounts: they can reach 90%. Large sales attract crowds of people. It is not surprising that sometimes an uncontrollable passion for shopping leads to sad incidents, which will be discussed in this material. Tjournal They told the story of this day and about the most terrible and ridiculous cases that occurred during the sale.

How the term Black Friday appeared

In August 1869, two American financiers, Jay Gould and James Fisk, managing the railway Erie railroad, we decided to earn extra money, provoking a rise in prices in the markets. Entrepreneurial Americans bought gold and waited for grain prices to jump. Since the grain has become more expensive, it also began to take more money for its transportation, as railway tariffs increased.

Then Gould invested in the scam seven million dollars. After that, the dollar jumped to 40%. In the next few days, gold prices rose rapidly. Then the state decided to intervene in the situation. As the additional stock of gold appeared on the market, its rate fell by 30%. Gould managed to make 3 a million dollars in a market rush, but those who bought gold at overpriced in panic burned out and bombarded the scam instigators with lawsuits and threats of reprisals.

The cunning fraud significantly hit the New York Stock Exchange and the shares of many railway companies: they actually depreciated and turned into a tool of speculation. The day of the fall of the gold rate in the American market went down in history as Black Friday.

There is an alternative version of the origin of the term Black Friday. He appeared in Philadelphia in the fifties of the last century: the so-called heavy traffic jams on Friday after Thanksgiving Day. In speech, Black Friday (Black Friday) appeared thanks to the state road service.

In any case, the term has got accustomed: now the retail chains call it the annual sales season, when buyers can save on purchases. However, sometimes the consequences of shopping is difficult to predict.

What happened in 2008 year

During the start of Black Friday in November 2008, a distraught crowd of customers trampled an 34-year-old employee of the shopping center to death Walmart Dzhimitaya Damura on Long Island.

According to the colleague of the deceased, 43-year-old Jimmy Overby, hundreds of buyers rushed to the man. On that day, several more people were injured, including an 28-year-old pregnant woman. She was hospitalized in a hospital with injuries of varying severity.

What happened in 2009 year

In December, 2009, the preparation for Christmas in the German city of Aachen brought disagreeable customers to the hospital. According to eyewitnesses, an elderly man tried to wrest from the hands of a woman who came to the store with her brother and mother a free cart for groceries. However, her younger brother hurried to help her, who took the cart and pushed the pensioner to the floor. This incident is not over.

An angry man caught up with his family in the department of cheeses and sausages, where buyers had a fight. They used a variety of weapons - for example, a salami stick and two-kilogram pieces of parmesan. In order to calm the shocked customers, the store owners called the police and the ambulance to the scene: the instigators of the fight were in the hospital.

Passion for shopping during the sales was overwhelmed by 77-year-old pensioner Joan Cannein. In January 2009, her neighbors suspected something was wrong: a woman did not appear on the street for several days, although her car was in the courtyard. Arrived on call the police did not find the missing woman. Only with the help of a special search party, the corpse of the pensioner was found under a pile of unassembled boxes and shopping bags. According to her neighbors, Miss Cannein, shopping was her only hobby. In the absence of a family, the pensioner paid all her free time to shopping.

What happened in 2012 year

In November, 48-year-old Arvind Tandel, a resident of Santa Clara County, California, went with his wife and four daughters for a night sale to one of the stores. On the way back, the family car had an accident, colliding with a police car. Two of Tandel’s four daughters died on the spot from his injuries.

According to police, the cause of death was the absence of a seat belt. Later it turned out that the girls were not fastened due to the large number of purchases laid out in the car. In addition, due to sales, the father of the daughters did not sleep more than 20 hours. Probably, therefore, he inattentively controlled the machine.

What happened in 2013 year

A resident of Las Vegas bought in the store trading network Target television. The man decided to independently carry the purchase to a car parked on Cambridge Street. However, he was stopped by an attacker armed with a pistol, who demanded that he give the box with the purchase. A scuffle ensued between them, during which the former owner of the television received several gunshot wounds to the stomach. The buyer survived, but the fate of the TV remains unknown.

What happened in 2015 year

In November, there are also sales in China. They do not refer to Black Friday, but to the Bachelor's Day, which the world celebrates on November 11.

In 2015, discounts in honor of Bachelor's Day in northern China forced courier stores to buy goods on horseback. This was due to the fact that the municipal authorities banned the use of three-wheeled electric bicycles, popular among courier services. According to representatives of one of them, in order to deliver purchases on time, I had to simply “take a dozen horses from local pastures”.

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