Hundreds of residents around the Antelope Valley Friday were out at the crack of dawn (or midnight in some cases), braving huge crowds and long lines in the name of savings. Still, there were no reported criminal incidents in Lancaster and Palmdale as a part of Black Friday.
Not so in other parts of California.
Pepper spray in Aisle 2
At a Walmart in Porter Ranch, CA, one woman pepper sprayed the crowd of shoppers in order to clear the way for her to get her hands on one of the discounted Xbox video game players. Twenty people reportedly suffered minor injuries in the incident. The video below was taken in the aftermath of the incident.
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Waffle Riot!
Meanwhile, shoppers reportedly went wild at another Walmart in Littlerock, Arkansas. The object of their obsession? A limited supply of $2 waffle makers. View the video below:
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Update: CBS News reports that the woman who pepper sprayed the crowd to get to an Xbox on Black Friday has turned herself in. Read more on that incident as well as other incidents of Black Friday mayhem across the nation here.
Shunnon Thomas says
I love waffles too!