Sometimes it really, really, really sucks to be right.

[MADem]

14. The guy didn't DIE, though. He got jacked by a criminal IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD.

He was in his apt. complex when that jerk shot at him. If the guy had been going out to the dumpster with a bag of old turkey bones, that same crook probably would have shot him and stole his wallet.

Thief is gonna thief. That flat-screen jacking was all about a crook, not about "shopper violence."

“As the victim was walking through his complex he was approached by a suspect who fired warning shots which caused the victim to release the television,” he said.
As the thief tried to load it into a vehicle the victim approached him to try and get it back, Gordon added.
“The suspect fired two more shots and the victim was struck in the leg,” he said. “He was not seriously injured."

I am not a fan of the "post-Thanksgiving consumer fest" but it seems to me there were WAY fewer incidents this year than in years past. The stores do a better job of limiting access, and bar the door and only let a certain number of people in, and then only let people in as other shoppers leave. No people getting trampled, anymore, and just the usual Filenes-Basement-Style brawls.