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mcityApparently, she wanted the deals enough to use pepper spray.
Then I check the comments, and I find lots of Europeans wagging their heads about how "consumerist" and materialistic those stupid Americans are.
Because all Americans are totally united about this, and the one woman at the one store represents absolutely everyone in the entire country.
*From what the blogs say, that's what the cops use. Never mind that there's no such thing, by any legal or official definition, as mil-grade pepper spray, and CS spray isn't even legally considered "incapacitating", much less to be any significant threat of injury or harm. But learning that would require people to actually make an effort to know what they're talking about before forming an opinion.
Then I check the comments, and I find lots of Europeans wagging their heads about how "consumerist" and materialistic those stupid Americans are.
Because all Americans are totally united about this, and the one woman at the one store represents absolutely everyone in the entire country.
*From what the blogs say, that's what the cops use. Never mind that there's no such thing, by any legal or official definition, as mil-grade pepper spray, and CS spray isn't even legally considered "incapacitating", much less to be any significant threat of injury or harm. But learning that would require people to actually make an effort to know what they're talking about before forming an opinion.
