I have never understood the mad dash for sales on Black Friday and I fear I never will. Last year, me and two of my friends went to Value City in Westland, Mich. at midnight on Black Friday and watched how many people were lined up to bum rush the store once it opened for its marked down prices on already marked down stuff. Crazy times.

But, what happened at a Wal-Mart in Long Island is beyond belief. A worker was actually trampled to death by people who were looking to get their grimy hands on some cheap stuff. Congratulations, people in Long Island — as if people who go to Wal-Mart on a regular basis don't already have enough of a bad reputation, you literally killed someone to get your hands on an X-Box 360 or something. Hope your kids are happy with that present, not only because you woke up at 6 a.m. on the Friday after Thanksgiving to get it, but because you ACTUALLY RAN SOMEONE OVER AND IGNORED THEM AS OTHERS DID TOO.

In related "people are terrible" news, violence led to two people being shot and killed at a Toys 'R Us in California, an incident that was possibly gang related. Awesome. What is it about toys that makes people want to kill each other to get the best one? I mean, for a time of giving and joy, it seems as if a lot of people are giving each other mortal wounds and enjoying the infamy that comes with being the least civil people in the country. Absolutely disgusting.

For the record, I slept in. That tryptophan killed me.