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Effective Shopping 101

by northstar at 12:09 PM on November 28, 2004

Pepper spray sends 3 from toy store to hospital

Are you tired of those crowds you have to fight in order to get your holiday shopping done? Tired of rubbing elbows with the unwashed masses? Sick of having to push people out of your way to get that treasured SpongeBob Squarepants Lava Lamp? Well, now there is a way for you to clear your path, though if you're not careful, it may just leave you with a felony conviction on your record:

NEW YORK (AP) -- Pepper spray was released inside an elevator at Toys R Us' crowded flagship store Saturday, sending at least three people to the hospital and leaving others with irritated eyes, fire and police spokesmen said.

Police were reviewing video camera footage to find out who discharged the spray at the toy chain's Times Square store during the busy shopping weekend....

It was unclear how many shoppers were affected. Firefighter Kevin Nolan said five people were taken to St. Vincent's Hospital and 17 others were treated at the scene or refused medical attention.

Police said three people were taken to St. Vincent's and nine refused medical attention.

Sometimes, if you want to get things done, you just have to take matters into your own hands. While I would never condone nor endorse this method, you do have to admit that it is an effective means of winnowing out the competition. Of course, to effectively employ this method, you'd have to wear a gas mask, which would hardly allow you to blend into the crowd. I never said that it was a perfect method, but if it takes laying down a smokescreen of pepper spray to get your Christmas shopping done, well, sometimes a person has to take extreme measures.

Ho freakin' ho and a Merry f-----g Christmas to all....

comments (3)

Sweet. So FAO Schwartz is out of bankruptcy(I think) and they Re-Opened their Flagship store on Central Park South/5th Ave... I want to got there, they have a new doll making workshop and I need to by my daughter(which is a porcelain doll) some nice corporate made preppy clothing... I usually sew and knit and stitch together her clothing, but thought I could surprise her with something less vintage and more retail this christmas... Something I realized... Muslims obviously don't care about Christmas... but there's a group of New Yorkers who get increasingly BITTER about this holiday season, and that's the HINDUS... I got this Hindu manager bitch at work who's really having a hoover damn of an eruption in blood as her period explodes all over the trading terminals because nobody's gonna by her or Krishna shit for Christ's sake.

by LOCKHEEd at November 28, 2004 1:37 PM


Here at our local non-flagship Toys R Us we only had the occasional PS-2 armed robbery a couple years back. Something awfully corrupt about obtaining toys through armed robbery. But damned effective as you point out.

by anna at November 28, 2004 5:22 PM


you dont know spm bitch

by chichi at October 3, 2005 2:14 AM