Bust out the riot gear! It's our favorite Black Friday clips!
The early morning sales, the shoving, the cranky people arguing over electronics... Rejoice! Black Friday is upon us!
I don't know about you WTN readers, but Black Friday scares us. In fact, if you ever want to freak out a reporter, walk up behind him (or her) and say, "We need you to get up at 4 a.m. and go to (insert retail establishment here) for our Black Friday story."
Black Friday is a gold mine for videographers looking to capture mobs of fanatical consumers looking for deals. Which, in turn, means a cornucopia of Black Friday videos on YouTube, and good times for your friends at Watch This Now.
Here are some of our favorites, in honor of this busiest shopping day of the year. If you've got one that we've missed, feel free to add a link in the comments.
Up first: This clip, shot outside a Best Buy, of shoppers rushing to get into the store as it opens at 5 a.m.
Next up: This vintage news report from WTVJ in Miami, of Black Friday in 1984. Check out the fabulous neon! And the plastic yellow watch!
More clips after the jump.
I don't know if this is Black Friday, but the general idea is the same: Parents going beserk over Cabbage Patch Kids, circa 198-something.
And finally, this appeal to common sense on Black Friday, to the tune of "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield.
DAN SCAPUSIO joined the Sun Sentinel's online team in 2008. A self described Internet enthusiast, he says the World Wide Web brings him joy, sadness, excitement, joy and a deep sense of terror all at once. For him, it's a crossroads where college humor and the most valuable scholarly information can be found and, in some cases, even melded.
