Although Amazon and early sales events have cut into the Black Friday mania that caused wild frenzies when the doors opened, it used to be a thing. They were such an odd fixture for so long.
Traditionally I've posted a stampede video on Black Friday and so this year, even though they're fading, in a sort of twisted nostalgia I'll keep with the stampede post. If nothing else, maybe the video's tips will come in handy if your ever in a Kmart and get caught in a rush for a particularly alluring Blue Light Special.
Because it follows the Thanksgiving holiday this Friday isn't really the start of a weekend, so I will forgo my usual Friday video and instead, in honor of Black Friday shopping madness, I'll post a stampede video.
Not sure what would be more intimidating, those elephants or Walmart shoppers at the moment the doors open for the Black Friday sales.
The weekend started yesterday, so there is no reason for my usual Friday music video to get you ready for it. Instead, in honor of Black Friday shopping lunacy I'm posting a couple of stampede videos.
The first (above) is from an idiotic movie called 10,000 BC. Who knew wholly mammoths were used in the construction of the pyramids? For that matter, who knew the pyramids used to look like that? At any rate, as part of a slave revolt a herd of silly looking CGI mammoths are stampeded down a ramp to stomp on soldiers and eeeeevil overseers. Quite an inspirational scene.
Below we head off to Skull Island where much better looking CGI dinosaurs stampede through some westerners on safari. For the amount of dinosaurs there are you would think more of the safari guys would get squashed, but whatever. Also, the predator dinosaurs seem to have a pretty stupid hunting strategy -- shouldn't they just pick off the weakling at the back of the herd instead of getting mixed up in the herd where they can get stomped on as well?
Any way, if you go shopping today have fun, but try to be neither the stomper nor the stompee.
