Black Friday may be quiet in the UK... but it's a different story over in America

BRIT stores may have failed to meet the mania seen last year on Black Friday - but the trend is certainly continuing across the pond. Fights, crowds and thefts from children mark the bizarre tradition of grown adults going wild for discounts the day after Thanksgiving.

Black Friday sales in America have sparked madness in shoppers across the continent

In America the sales hit stores even earlier - with bargains beginning yesterday. Thirty million sale shoppers hit stores on Thursday, with 100 million more expected to dive into discounts today.

Mayhem broke out at one store, where a sale shopper ripped a steamer out of a small child's hands

Scenes across the states showed signs of mania as people clawed over one another in desperate attempts to get their hands on some goodies. In one shocking video a stampede is seen bursting through store doors and falling on a pile of cut-price steamers.

Fist fights broke out across America as people desperately tried to grab cheap stock

Shockingly a woman grabs a veg steamer right out of the hands of a small child - much to his mum’s horror.
In Louisville, Kentucky two men began brawling for no apparent reason while shoppers tried to grab bargains around them. 

Elsewhere in New York 100 people queued to get into Macy’s in New York’s Herald Square, while a further 40 queued outside Toys R Us. Michelle Toy, from Oklahoma City queued for hours outside a Best Buy store, and told NBC station KFOR: “I got here at 11 o’clock last night waiting for a TV. “It’s not a big price to pay.


I’ll have plenty of time to sleep when I’m six feet under.”Estaban Rodulfo also visited a Best Buy store in Fresno, California and told NBC station KSEE: “I got my phone, I got my laptop, my tablet, and, like, five blankets.

“I got a flannel, a jacket, another jacket right there.” As violence spreads across the US, things remain quiet over here in the UK. With the most Black Friday drama coming from long queues at Asda petrol stations - where they've dropped fuel to 99p a litre.