This is about major disasters that can befall soccer matches around the world. Riots, crushes, deaths, fires… it’s like every soccer match is a potential Black Friday!
Come inside and learn about 15 of soccer’s worst disasters.

Black Friday, historically, is the one day of the year that is supposed to put stores in the “black”. That is, make them actually profitable. To do this, they advertise heavily, drop prices, and hold special sales on certain items like toys and consumer electronics. Thrown in 5am opening times, desirable products-of-the-moment like, say, X-Boxes, and add a dash of mob mentality, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.

LA Times:
A gunman opened fire at a Toys R Us store in Palm Desert, killing two and causing shoppers at the busy store to scramble for cover.
Palm Desert Councilman Bob Spiegel told The Times that based on early reports, two rival groups shopping at the store had some kind of argument and then shots were [...]

A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.
The 34-year-old employee, a temporary maintenance worker, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.
Video of the aftermath included.

Marriage counselors and divorce lawyers nationwide say more distressed couples are putting off divorce because the cost of splitting up is prohibitive in a time of stagnant salaries, plummeting home values and rising unemployment.

Easy-Bake Oven, Lincoln Logs, Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em Robots, Slinky, Colorforms, TinkerToys, Hungry Hungry Hippos, and Nerf - they’re all making a comeback this year.

Abraham Biggs, 19, of Pembroke Pines, died Wednesday at his home from a toxic combination of opiates and benzodiazepine, a drug used to treat insomnia and depression. Some computer users egged him on, some debated his method, and others tried to talk him out of it.

Extremely HOT Persian-Spanish babe Sarah Shahi.
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President-elect Barack Obama grabbed his lunch to go Friday and artfully dodged a question about the auto industry woes he’ll inherit. “We got the corned beef,” Obama said as he made his way around the counter at Manny’s deli. Asked by a reporter what he thought about the auto industry, he responded with a smile: “I got the corned beef.”

Salon.com excerpt: Her very presence, butt and all, is a rebuke to all those presidents who’ve dragged their feet on equality and justice even though they paid it lip service, from Woodrow Wilson to Bill Clinton. Even more clearly than her husband’s, Michelle’s prominence is saying to the old guard, step aside. Fist bump? Nah. Booty bump is more like it.