Here, via Mashable, is a swarm of Walmart shoppers fighting over $2 waffle makers:

This is the best day of the year!

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  1. Deride those folks all you want, but hoarding and fighting over anything of perceived value is natural behavior for animals in a scarcity situation. And while waffle irons may not be scarce, constantly not having any extra money can make a person pretty batty after a while.

    Most people would describe me as a normal middle-class, educated, as-sane-as-anyone-these-days woman. However, I’ve been out of a job for over 6 months, and when I have enough money to go to the grocery store, it’s really hard not to buy a crapton of extra, unhealthy food I don’t need, just because I can.

    It trips me out, because I don’t normally shop that way. Now, I’m not going to go fighting people over cheap appliances, but I can see where the drive might come from.

  2. It’s like none of you have been alive from 1970 to the present. It’s kind of baffling. this shit isn’t new. And it happens in every second and first world country.

  3. i mean….it’s HORRIBLE but it’s not like we have reached the hippie end times or something. *shrug* burn it all down. Fuck it. Rape the world.

  4. Ya know… There are only so many waffle-makers that can be resold on eBay for $5… None of these people are going to use theirs to make waffles, they’re all buying them for chintzy gifts or to resell. Who makes waffles? I mean, except from frozen waffles that go in the toaster? Anyone who ever wanted to make waffles from scratch already has a waffle iron, collecting dust in the cabinet, or out in the garage.

  5. “hoarding and fighting over anything of perceived value is natural behavior for animals in a scarcity situation. “

    You got the animals part right.

  6. I agree with #18. Record your videos properly please. Although, I have to say this stupid portrait video doesn’t bother me as most have. It sort of helps keep my focus on the center of the action/screen.

  7. 27 dear, you can wipe the exterior with a damp cloth, and for the inside, just let it heat up and burn off any stuck-on bits. Just don’t immerse it.

    I still say you could get a much better waffle iron at St. Vincent de Paul. I have Mother Vel-DuRay’s Kenmore waffle iron that she and Pappa Vel-DuRay received as a wedding present in 1952, and it works perfectly – and even has an engraving of a little house on it!

  8. @3

    That was my reaction, too.

    @11

    Um, “scarcity situation”?? We live in America, land of the consumption monsters. Consuming is like a religion here. Nobody’s living in scarcity here, even our “dirt poor.” This is just pure, filthy GREED we’re witnessing, one of the consequences of this extreme capitalistic system and the idiots who buy into it.

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