It just wouldn't be Black Friday without violence and controversy, would it? Of course not.
Here's a roundup of the head-scratching stories that have trickled out today:
At a Target store in Buffalo, NY, shoppers went, according to an eyewitness, "from controlled to a mob in less than five minutes and it just got nasty" when the store's 4 AM opening resulted in a stampede.
Police were called in to help maintain order at a Toys-R-Us store in Wisconsin after the thousands who'd lined up in the freezing cold rushed the store's entrance, sending employees into a panic.<p>
At another Toys-R-Us store in Wisconsin, a woman was arrested for threatening to shoot other shoppers who complained about her cutting the line to get into the store.
A retired federal law enforcement officer was arrested in the checkout line of a Palm Beach-area Walmart packing "a .40-caliber Glock handgun with a 30-round magazine in a holster at his hip, as well as two concealed knives and a 'pepper grenade.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department put the food court area of a Cerritos, CA shopping mall on lockdown after a fight broke out and gunshots were reported.
An Indianapolis woman was arrested after getting into a heated argument with other shoppers about cutting the checkout line.
Angry shoppers at a Walmart in Massachusetts accused the retail giant of false advertising when the store opened much later than they expected it to.
Hey John
Hope your Monday unveiling goes better than Black Friday did
LOL 