Black Friday sales figures won't come in for several more days, but we've already got some very good news to report.

No one died at Wal-Mart.

During Black Friday 2008, shoppers trampled a worker to death on their way into the store.

Thanks to beefed-up security that didn't happen this year.

(See the cattle-herding fences, bullhorns, and guys in ominious black hoodies in the post-apocalpytic pic on the right.)

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