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Workers Storm Toy Store (Not Black Friday Related)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Workers that were laid off from a toy factory in China decided to raid it on Tuesday night, leaving a vehicle turned over in their wake. A total of 500 individuals stormed the place breaking windows, computers, cars, anything they could get their hands on to show how upset they were about losing their jobs.

1000 police officers were at the scene trying to break up the crowd, finally everyone went home. But not before they made sure it would be too hard to work at. Employees, errr ex-employees were upset that they’d been replaced so early.

It seems that China is feeling the tightening of the economy.

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2 Die on Black Friday at Toys R Us

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

It all started with a toy, two woman began arguing over it and their men started in on one another. Suddenly one showed his gun and shots rang out. After what would seem like an eternity, the gunfire ended and the two men lay on the ground in front of the store…dead.

Toys R Us has issued a statement:

"Our understanding is that this act seems to have been the result of a personal dispute between the individuals involved. Therefore, it would be inaccurate to associate the events of today with Black Friday," the statement said.

I agree, I don’t think this was a result of Black Friday or Toys R Us. These two guys came with guns, they knew each other and they killed one another.

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