The States Where You’re Most Likely to Encounter Fights at Black Friday Sales

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[div id="container" style="display:inline"]Black Friday is upon us again, that annual sales event where crowds gather at store entrances in hopes of securing the best deals on holiday gifts. Without fail some of these shopping scrums end in fisticuffs as shoppers exchange blows over who gets the last discounted video game console or Rachel Ray cookware set.

To determine just where it’s most dangerous to participate in Black Friday we at Estately sought to determine where people are most likely to be participating in Black Friday sales and where people are most prone to violently attacking each other. Our findings come from ranking each state from 1-50 for these two data sets and then averaging the results.

1. Facebook users expressing interest in Black Friday sales — (source: Facebook user data)

2. Frequency of aggravated assaults (attempts to cause seriously bodily injury purposely) — (source: FBI Uniform Crime Reports—2014)



http://blog.estately.com/2015/11/the-states-where-youre-most-likely-to-encounter-fights-at-black-friday-sales/

[tularetom]

1. Why am I not surprised?

[hlthe2b]

2. Don't go and you won't encounter it anywhere...

Too many idiots...

[msongs]

3. red states. is this cause and effect? btw tomorrow is buy nothing day. nt

[sharp_stick]

4. Of course it's

the yeee haaa, hee haw crowd.

I'm not that surprised.

[world wide wally]

5. This could also be a list of the ten most "Christian" states too

[smirkymonkey]

6. Now THAT is interesting!

[Art_from_Ark]

7. A lot of those states are also very poor

Maybe that's the only chance that a lot of people with limited incomes can buy something they want, at a price they can actually afford.

[linuxman]

8. Shutup and shame southerners!

"Hyuk, hyuk! jusa' buncha dipshit, classless hill folks!"

I wonder where we ever got the idea of northern elitism?

[Art_from_Ark]

9. Stuff happens all over the country

Like this woman who pepper-sprayed fellow Black Friday shoppers in California

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/26/black-friday-pepper-spray-shopper-turns-self-in_n_1114486.html

Or this incident at a California toy store where two people ended up dead

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/28/socal-toys-r-us-shooting_n_147032.html

Or this incident where a Walmart worker was trampled to death in Long Island

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/black-friday-brings-pain-family-walmart-worker-killed-article-1.2447949

Or this list of the 15 worst Black Friday incidents, none of which happened in Arkansas

http://www.brainjet.com/random/6262/15-worst-black-friday-incidents#page=6

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10. Black Friday rioting: a round-up of the chaos, fighting, pushing and shoving from America's malls

Kentucky would appear to have taken the early lead in Black Friday disturbances, as two separate videos of fighting from two different malls began circulating over social media.

Thousands lined up outside stores nationwide late Thursday to take advantage of Black Friday sales. In most places it would appear to have been orderly, aside from the ordinary pushing and shoving, but in some instances, things came to a head.

And mercifully someone was there to take vertical video.

In Lexington, Kentucky, two men brawled in the food court of Mall St. Matthews, reports the New York Daily News. As they wrestled on the floor, a woman who was unable to get out of the way was knocked over. It is unclear if they were arrested.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/11/black_friday_2015_rioting_a_ro.html#incart_2box