“Even Ballard didn’t go as far as describing consumer riots over 2$ waffle makers at Wal-Mart” – Ashley Benigno
This most recent Thanksgiving weekend was violent even by Black Friday standards, including at least once incident of one shopper using pepper spray on fellow consumers. As Ashley points out, that’s a grimly Ballardian reality. This weekend I’ve come across some other WTF moments that seem like they were lifted directly from a Ballard novel:
South Korean Twin Towers Design
DJ crushed in bed in hotel room by taxi cab
Corporate executives gone wild chew threw restraints on airplane
December 12, 2011 at 1:30 pm
and then there’s this http://gothamist.com/2011/12/09/around_60_occupy_wall_street.php