An incident in which a Porter Ranch, California woman opened fire on Walmart shoppers with a can of pepper spray has gone down in YouTube history. A mother of three was arrested after using pepper spray to hold back shoppers from the X-Box her son so badly wanted. Up to 20 people were injured in the attack.



Another shopper posted this video of shoppers going crazy over $2 waffle irons.



And at a Walmart in Arizona a 54-year-old grandfather, who was caught shoplifting, suffered injuries to his face while resisting arrest. Jerald Newman spent Black Friday night in prison after he was caught stuffing an X-Box game underneath his shirt. He was thrown to the ground by police and suffered a serious nose-bleed. Police were required to investigate their own handling of the matter.



November 26, 2010



A Madison, Wisconsin woman was arrested outside of a Toys 'R' Us store after cutting in line, and threatening to shoot other shoppers who tried to object. The Wisconsin State Journal reported that while no gun was found, she instead found herself spending her money to post bail.



November 27, 2008



A Walmart worker in Valley Stream, New York was trampled to death by more than 2000 shoppers as they broke the door down and stampeded into the store. The crowd refused to stop surging forward and 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was killed. Staff could not get to him in time to pull him from the frenzied crowd.