Thanksgiving + Black Friday!

I think it is safe to say that this weekend is the most American weekend of the year. Consumerism and Capitalism all over the place!

No really, the Thanksgiving-weekend is more than insane. But insanely awesome. The entire table is filled with so much indulgently delicious food, you don´t know where to start - so just put EVERYTHING on your plate at once! If you do not feel so bad about yourself that you want to crawl up in a fetus-like position and cry in the shower for hours, you obviously did not eat right.
Thanksgiving is there to celebrate one thing, and one thing only - how far a society has advanced. The sole reason why it exists is to make you feel superior to the rest of the world, by shoving as much food down your throat as humanly possible, without worrying at all about the misery in the rest of the world.... fantasmic!

Omnomnomtastic Turkey!

But endless availability of delicious food is not the only way to kick the rest of the world´s ass, there is also the issue of materialism - and that´s what Black Friday is for. The best way digest the half turkey you just ate is to sit back and scan through 3pounds of special Black Friday advertisement papers to look for the most insane deals. Every store opens at 12am, midnight... and don´t think no one´s going to be there.... people wait in line for hours. Hours and hours. Or they just camp outside for a day and have Thanksgiving dinner in their tents, since the number of available Flatscreen 50'' HD-TV´s for under 300$ is limited. Just like the number of XBOX360´s for 130$.
1 or 2 deaths during Black Friday are considered normal... really, people get into arguments over who got the last video-camera or whatever to a point where they pull guns at each other. Or just beat each other up. The news talked about a guy pointing his gun at other people, and a woman pepper-spraying her way towards the doorbuster-deals.
And don´t think you´re not going to buy anything, just because you´re not looking for anything specific... i have no idea where my 200$ went - the Blu-Ray DVD´s where under 5$ each, so i guess the rest went to clothes and such. It was more like a treasure-hunt than it was shopping. Which made it kinda adventurous.

And hey! After loosing quite a good amount of money, what would be the best place to got to next? Right, a Casino! But some of the great Manitus up there seems to like me for some reason, this awesome giant Indian Casino kept throwing money at me. Just after we got there, i put 2$ into this 'Miss Kitty'-Slotmachine, pushed the button, and got 20,40$ out of it. After just one. single. round. Awesome! On we went to the Black-Jack table, and here´s where we got really lucky... mostly due to the nice elderly couple at our table, we all made a nice profit, even though the 'losing and winning' went back and forth for quite a while. But thanks to them for explaining to us what we were doing there!
Feels good to walk out of Casino with 40$ extra in your pocket :)

All in all, this weekend just kicked ass big time.

...and this was just a third of the line infront of this Target store. 

I didn´t participate in any war, but it couldn´t have possibly been worse than was going on here.

A nicely glowing tree in a nice park in Milwaukee :)

I SURVIVED THE MILWAUKEE SHOOTING!!

You know how people always tend to make fun of silly stereotypical things they see only on TV, but it never happens in real life? Well, before i came to America, people were making fun of things like getting robbed all the time, people shooting each other in the streets and how everybody´s got a gun and so on. Well, yesterday, on November 11th, such a thing actually happened - or at least as close as i would want it to happen.

Me and a friend were just all casually strolling through Milwaukee, minding or own business and totally not thinking about being involved in a shooting at all. Went to Grand Avenue Mall and had some Chinese food at Panda Express (was okay, 5/10, but then again, all Chinese food kinda tastes the same, because everything is covered in the same kind of sauce, and they always put... oh, wait--) in the afternoon. When we got out, more and more police cars were speeding in one direction, and we were all like 'Maaan, poliiice! Watcha doin??', while they were screaming pulling the finger at people who wouldn´t let them run past them fast enough.
Then we went around the block and saw how all of the police cars gathered in front of this building - and none of them parked their car accurately AT ALL!! They just stopped right in the middle of the street, jumping out of their cars and running behind said building, armed with shotguns. Not even kidding. So, something was going on on the parking lot behind this block. While i was happily taking pictures, some policeman were closing off the entire area with crime-scene tape, while one of them came barking at me, hurrying me to the other side of the street. Some random pedestrians were talking about a gunfire and a dead body at this point....
So then we went to the other side of the building, were we could see into the alley leading to the parking lot where whatever happened happened. While more and more policeman were arriving, we could see people gathering in a circle, trying to reanimate someone. We kept watching the scene for a while, then took off again, right when the FOX News broadcasting van arrived. By this time, a helicopter was hovering in the sky above us. On our way my back, my friend was calling her mom ("You are WHERE?! AAAAHAHAHH!!!") to see if this was on the news yet, as we didn´t really know what was going on at all. It was.
So later that evening, we found out what exactly was going on, but see for yourself:

http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-20111111-officer-shoots-suspect,0,4910852.story

Some guy apparently thought it to be a good idea to rob the bank down in the Mall where WE WERE EATING our SEMI-DELICIOUS Chinese food! AT THE SAME TIME when we were in there!! We didn´t really take any notice of what was going on a few floors below us, but it´s kinda funny to think about this. So it seems to be that this was shot by a police officer about the time we got out of the mall, and was just freshly dead for a few minutes when we arrived at the crime scene. Huh.

So yeah, turns out America IS a dangerous, criminal place of evilness, where you can´t even enjoy some Chinese food without having a bank-robbery and shooting going on around you! Not that it isn´t hard enough already to really enjoy Panda express without any dead bodies...!

Oh, and for anyone who says 'pics or it didn´t happen', here ya go:

Da crime-scene, yo!

That guy yelled at me for standing around in a crime-scene. Wait... I WAS STANDING IN A CRIME-SCENE!!1

Over there´s were that guy was shot... =/

15 minutes after receiving two bullets to the chest, you don´t  really need ambulance anymore... ah well.