its funny because i dont know him.

Former retail employee here. This is funny. But if I caught the guy doing it, I would rip his balls out of his nutsack, and that would also be funny.

Bob- my thoughts exactly.

"Garan Wilson/Pop-a-Lock: Probably, I think it was 30 stores, but probably, 200-250 locks..."

Cha-ching! Cha-ching!
Happy holidays, Pop-a-Lock!

funniest. story. ever.
It's like a yuppie nightmare. Best Buy's doors are glued shut! What do we do? (muahahah)

bastards. go back home and watch the dvds you already have.

People do bad things to get attention, and the news media is always just so happy to give it to them.

Now thats what I call a sticky situation.....

Isuldirs

You beat me to it

The last Friday in November is International Buy Nothing Day, of course.

Mugato

I ASSURE YOU WE ARE OPEN

Apparently, the person or persons responsible for this also snuck into the Mall of Acadiana and literally glued an unknown number of locks shut.

Should have figuratively glued them

I ASSURE YOU WE'RE OPEN!

"While hundreds of Acadiana stores were opened bright and early, ready for holiday shoppers, other's were not so lucky.

Bob the Angry Flower is looking for you, Nicole Murray.

Oops...a little late....

Now, dat be fon-nee, I garontee!

Ah yes, Buy Nothing Day. A "symbolic protest" (according to their site). It's like a real protest in that nothing gets accomplished, but symbolic in that nothing out of the ordinary actually happens.

It's painfully obvious that an eager employee of Pop-a-Lock committed this heinous crime.

Ouch, "jamima69" no more - be silent. Not a good idea.

why the necessity to keep saying the shop owners were "literally" locked out of their stores? the whole article seems to indicate a *very* slight grasp of the written english language on the part of the reporter.

Did the store owners eat ice cream after they got it open?

meh,i gots to call em as i see em gospel,damn the consequences. ;)

Interesting to see how 'international buy nothing day'
have been replaced by "I'm going to put glue into the
locks of merchants so other people who do want to buy
something on this day is FARKED."

Welcome to Banninationville, jamima69.

Population: you.

i wish i wouuld have thought of that when i worked at walmart. could have used a break

While, at first thought, this is really funny. The loss in business really sucks. Chalk it up to a funny prank gone really bad.

/got my good deals from Best Buy this morning...
//showed up at 12:30 last night.
///missed a $50 17" LCD at CompUSA, though... bummer.

don't do it man, unless you want a sock in your mouth
for the next 48 hours. I hate the taste. You won't
like it.



... see? we're OPEN .... savages ....

gwydion56: would have gleefully glued the perp's mouth shut if I had caught him.


Glue his ass shut instead, that way you get to hear him scream ;)

This is completely off topic, but does anyone else think that the "redisplay comments" link needs to be bigger?
I've been a farker for 6 months now and only just recently saw it. Before I just kept hitting the back button on my screen and reloading the whole page.

Damn.

Anyway...superglue...not funny. The businesses definetely lost a shiatload of business. The guy who owns the suit place shouldn't have said that he lost $1000 or more in business. Cause, if the guy gets caught, he'll most likely be sued by all businesses for profits lost, and the suit store will have to say around one grand. Doesn't he know how America works?!

/just kidding
/not really

A couple of years ago this happened at the Best Buy I work at. Whoever did it at our stored stuffed toothpicks in our locks, then used the super glue.

usr: It's painfully obvious that an eager employee of Pop-a-Lock committed this heinous crime.

That made me laugh out loud.

...or I could have just hit the "refresh" button. I never said I was smart.


Anyway, my two roomates work at Best Buy and had to be at work at 4AM today just for this bullshiat. Doesn't sound tooooo bad until you realize they only make 8 bucks an hour. Muahahahaha.

I always miss the banninations. What do he do?

I think I posted a "how-to" guide for this exact prank last year on fark.

Wow! These business owners were trying to take advantage of naive Americans and their pockets full of plastic. They actually had these consumer folk convinced that spending at this time was manditory. Alas - fewer Chinese goods sold on this day.

/Was probably a disgruntled victim of "job gone overseas syndrome" that did this.

allow me to be the first to say ....

Now that it has made the news and more importantly, "FARK" just how many locks
do you feel are at risk? Kerrrrrbunches
I would bet, oh well..

Couldn't have picked a better day to do it...

Still doesnt beat the record around here. One day after Christmas back in the 80s when rapid fire BB guns were the rage, over 100 cars had their side windows shot out. Only cars from out of state were hit, and the glass replacement guys had a profitable end to the fiscal year.

sounds like somone could use an anal massage

at what point did the underline replace quotation marks?

Great now we got economic terrorist other than Federal government

Little punk bastards, I hope some of the shopowners find the litle pricks and superglue their little buttholes shut, that'll teach em' to fark around with peoples' livelyhood!

Eeek

damm man...that list encompasses like 90% of all content on fark...

"Amusing"???

How about obnoxious, immature, and stupid. Not even remotely funny.

Farking retarded submitter.

Uhhhh... Anyone besides me remember really and truly Christmas??? You know, Holy Day Christmas? The Baby Jesus, family togetherness, and all that sorta stuff? I can even remember when Christmas was only about two weeks long. Now, we live in the mall, and we live for the mall, and if you don't blow about six months worth of paycheck on X-Mas "gifts", then you are some sort of cheap-ass communist. Now, "The Shopping Season" is approaching the two month mark, and everbody dreads Christmas.

Don't get me wrong...I cannot condone vandalism. It's a crime, and it's wrong. BUT, the world ain't gonna end if you actually take some time off from Christmas shopping and spend some time with your family; time outside of the d*mned mall that is.

True story...when my littles were real little I used to work three jobs staring in October, just to pay for Christmas toys. For about three months I was rarely home, and if I was home I was asleep. Then one day my littlest girl climbed up in my lap, and said "I really miss you Papa. We don't play no more." I didn't cry, but it was close.

And so I give less toys, and more time.

/and they lived happily ever after

...doesn't nail polish remover thin crazy glue?

You mean there's somewhere in the world not covered by surveilence cameras? I hope these fat bastards paid approximately zero for squarebadges.

Keep fightin the man. Just wish I thought of it first. Oh well, theres allways the weekend before Xmas.

wee:

submitter is an asshat. This isn't amusing at all. There are small store owners that count on holiday shopping to carry them through the rest of the year. My mom's store would have suffereed for sure if they'd been closed today. Screwing with people's livelihoods isn't funny. So you're not into comsumerism, fine (even though you own that pair of Nikes, that iPod, the Sont TV, etc..). So why foist your hippie nonsense on the rest of the world? Can't people see how presumptuous that is?


Well, us "hippies" gotta do something before the rest of America eats it's way into obecity and all thei muscles atrophy from sittin on their couches all day. Besides, whenever we try to be reasonable with the rest of you, you tell us nothing will get accomplished, so I guess someone took your advice. So how about instead of Generic Old Navy Sweater #42, you actually give someone a thoughtfull, personal gift. Remember, Santa would be in hell right now if Jebus didn't die for his sins.

I wonder if a window would have cost more than the lost profits.

Actually, I know it wouldn't have.

nice to see the hometown in fark for something so stupid again...sigh.

I'm surprised they didn't think to glue the locksmith's doors shut too! 20-20 hindsight...

Guido Libido:

Uhhhh... Anyone besides me remember really and truly Christmas??? You know, Holy Day Christmas? The Baby Jesus, family togetherness, and all that sorta stuff? I can even remember when Christmas was only about two weeks long. Now, we live in the mall, and we live for the mall, and if you don't blow about six months worth of paycheck on X-Mas "gifts", then you are some sort of cheap-ass communist. Now, "The Shopping Season" is approaching the two month mark, and everbody dreads Christmas.

Don't get me wrong...I cannot condone vandalism. It's a crime, and it's wrong. BUT, the world ain't gonna end if you actually take some time off from Christmas shopping and spend some time with your family; time outside of the d*mned mall that is.

True story...when my littles were real little I used to work three jobs staring in October, just to pay for Christmas toys. For about three months I was rarely home, and if I was home I was asleep. Then one day my littlest girl climbed up in my lap, and said "I really miss you Papa. We don't play no more." I didn't cry, but it was close.

And so I give less toys, and more time.

/and they lived happily ever after


God Bless Us Everyone

If you don't buy a lot of crap for Christmas, Godless Muslims will take over the country.

George W. loves you. Remember that and your credit card number.

Ahh super glue a locksmiths worst adversary. Another student and I played with this substance way back in high school days. Glued the locks on a few classroom doors. Hilarity ensued. We were never caught but seeing the pissed off look on the janitors faces as they removed the hinges on the doors convinced us it was not worth another go round. After deciding we didn't care about the janitors, it gave them something to do, we were laughing our arses off. Taking money from a business is another matter entirely. The greed barons will not look at this kindly.

all I have to say is, poor, POOR widdle billion dollar corporations. They may not be able to buy widdle CEO yet another Aspen vacation home this year.

/yes, sarcasm

Tyler Durden wanted for questioning.

/is what the headline should have read.

Good one Woney

I see everyone beat me to the Clerks jokes. :P

That's what happens when you don't get up early....

Early? You slept 24 hours through this post?

meh..

Woney:

all I have to say is, poor, POOR widdle billion dollar corporations. They may not be able to buy widdle CEO yet another Aspen vacation home this year.


You dick. It wasn't just big business affected. Small businesses who rely on every farking dollar they can earn
during the holidays were also farked.

RAH!