Black Friday is the safest day to be at home. Your chances of injury or fatality from a house fire are the lowest in the year.
But the minute you step out the door, your chances of injury or death increase precipitously. The roads are still filled with drunk drivers who celebrated the holiday with far too much alcohol, then made the deadly choice to get behind the wheel.
And even if you arrive safely at the mall or big box retailer whose sales drew you, your worries aren’t over yet. Fights, pepper spray, trampling, and shootouts await the unwary shopper.
The military needs to quit recruiting out of high schools and look at recruiting out of Wal*mart and other big retailers on Black Friday. There, apparently, is where they’ll find experienced, ruthless fighters heedless of causing human harm that will go into battle against crowds without a thought to personal safety.
But how the military could arrange things to properly motivate these would be warriors presents an obstacle. Plant high-end flat screen TVs at strategic points in the Libyan desert? Arrange to have caches of the latest video game equipment or iPods in strategic urban centers in Iraq? It’s a conundrum.
After a retail worker opening doors to shoppers on Black Friday died under a stampede in 2008,OSHA issued guidelines for crowd control and safety to big retailers to help them avoid dangerous workplace injuries. But Black Friday violence and mayhem continues. Your best bet to avoid physical injuries incurred in Black Friday frenzies probably rests in waiting to shop online on Cyber Monday.
If you didn’t shop online, but instead encountered a would be warrior at a store on Black Friday, and you received injuries caused by their negligence or reckless behavior, feel free to contact our Houston personal injury lawyers for a free and confidential legal consultation.
The Houston personal injury lawyers at Denena & Points could help you determine winning strategies for recovering financial compensation for your wounds from those who caused them. If you need an ally to stand up for your rights, we’re here for you. We still believe that the pen is mightier than the sword. Use our legal expertise and skill with the mighty sword of the law to fight for your financial recovery.