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 Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 8:55 pm
While Christmas, a holiday celebrated by most can be a joyous occasion, there are some who have some stories, I am sure that have had Christmas Years that could outdo Halloween stories.
So... share your dark Christmas tales here, I wanna hear them!
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 9:30 pm
I work at Toys R Us as part time while i go to college for those of you who don't know
It was Black Friday 2009, The store was getting ready to open at 2am, we had all the big item and best sale on them. The line of people waiting stretched from our store and continued close to 3 city blocks down the road. Two of our managers and three staff members (including me) went out to give out tickets to those in line who would be getting the Wii, Zhu Zhu pets, or the $50 Ipod touch that was limitted. When we get out there the people start to riot because most were drunk from thanksgiving. they start throwing bottles (one nailing a manager and causing a bloody face). We had to call the police which then had to call crowd control. By the time the riot stopped we had a total of 5 K-9 units and over 20 crowd control people with knife-sticks and sheilds ready. They arrested about 30 people i believe, this is an estimate i'm not exactly sure how many were taken away but it was a good amount. This was the worst year to date.
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 9:33 pm
Oh ho ho, now that is a decent horror story! Ooh... so did the worker that got nailed survive?
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 9:36 pm
Yeah, it was only a couple of scrapes really, looked worse than what it was. Unfortunately he is the only manager i like and look up to and yet all the bad things keep happening to him, it was his first year in a grade A Toys R Us. (grades range from d-a and there is only one A+ and that is the one in New York with the ferris wheel and everything.)
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 9:50 pm
Yay! Someone from New York! Seriously, I gotta know... does the address #29 east 29th street exist?
I had a dream about that very place. It was in New York, I know that.
There was a pedway bridge from the downtown high rises going across a big park ending up in a quiet little residential area. The street's name off of that bridge is called 29th street according to the dream. There is a hill of sorts, I guess I could say... where the road kinda rises. Across the street from the bridge there is a sidewalk and several condominum looking houses.
The corner house, I like to think of it as Mrs. Schmidt's place. Living there is a kind old woman who hands out pies, freshly baked yummy apple pies to those who have been kind to her. She is sort of responsible for why that street is usually very quiet. Its nice considering the noise on the other side of the bridge. Then if you walk where the road is rising, go passed I think its... 4 or 5 connected houses and there you will come to #29 East 29th street.
I guess you are walking in the eastern direction when going up that slanted sidewalk.
Why do I want to know? Well, I had a memorable dream and it would give me a peace of mind if I have some proof, even a picture of that place.
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 10:04 pm
um no, no i don't live in New York i'm just saying they have the only A+ size store, i visited once and saw it had a ferris wheel, i thought it was just a rumor. I live in New Jersey closer to Philadelphia and Camden.
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 5:09 pm
Cool! Well, that's okay. I just assumed is all. (I am debating on whether to post that pic of a donkey I have since I made an a** of myself with that assumption.)
I heard many stories on New Jersey... mostly from movies, but still... there are some parts of it that are small little towns. Quiet and peaceful for the most part. (Coyote Ugly view, where Violet Stanford was from St. Amboy, New Jersey.)
Then there's the rumor of it being where in elementary if you weren't tough and if you let girls fight your battles for you, you were picked on for life.
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