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ROSEVILLE (CBS13) – It’s become a holiday tradition for some stalwart shoppers, camping outside stores to be first in line for Black Friday sales.

However, one store is making the wait a little more difficult this year by refusing to let people put up tents as they wait for the store to open its doors.

Best Buy is Roseville is telling would-be customers to take down their tents — perhaps a result of the ongoing “Occupy” demonstrations.

Shoppers who have been waiting in line say officials from the store said having tents in front of the store is a liability issue.

One man who had been first in line outside the Roseville Best Buy told CBS13 that security took his tent away while he was gone, causing him to lose his place. He is now fourth in line and angry.

So, now the holiday shoppers are sticking through the cold with space heaters, blankets, chairs and sleeping bags.

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  • Bobbie

    The story writer is DRAMA,It’s not Best Buy that won’t let them have the tent’s it’s the Proerty Manager…Anythin for a story..

  • Shez

    Its ABOUT FLIPPIN time!

    Black Friday deals is just way of town!

  • chic

    It has NOTHING to do with free speech. If I own a property and don’t want tents trashing up the front yard or if it’s an insurance liability, I have every right to remove said trash. You really need to read up on what free speech means.

  • TeaTime

    Hey, here’s a great idea! If you’re going to bother leaving a comment, at least use proper english, check your spelling and make complete, coherent sentences.

  • Bob

    Grammer Nazi’s can kiss my A$$!

  • Walljasper

    Better lay off the bong.

    Happier holidays to you.

    Sheesh.

  • don’t understand the black friday mentality

    does it really make a difference if you’re #1 or #4 in line??

  • Walljasper

    Is this some sort of crack smokin holiday?

    Better lay off the bong.

    Happier holidays to you.

    Sheesh.

  • Ralph Merrick

    Hello? What do you expect from LaLaLand? Intelligence? Lazy is as lazy does and these folks are a testament to that as well as ignorance. No wonder CA is bankrupt.

  • Wilson

    Good thing the spelling nazis aren’t after you too…

  • George Popadoculous

    The Occupy crowd is making life worse for the working man and woman. Just like Obama, Reid and Pelosi.

  • TeaTime

    Clearly you were able to harness the full potential of your mental capability to come up with such an astonishing reply, and succinctly illuminate much of what’s wrong with the left coast in the process. By the way, what exactly is “grammer”?

  • Stone Thrower

    Hi,

    It’s “English,” hypocrite.

  • TeaTime

    Oh, I hear that. What liberals have done to the education system is a national tragedy, at best.

  • Alice Polarbear

    It should be “Grammar Nazis”

    Nazi’s is the possessive form of Nazi. A single Nazi. If you wanted denote possessive case referring to multiple Nazis, you could do “Grammar Nazis’ ” As in “The Grammar Nazis’ various spell-check programs.”

    Not to be nit-picking, but I don’t think you need to capitalize “Grammar Nazis.” I suppose you could capitalize “Nazis” since it refers to the name of a hopefully-defunct, uniquely unpleasant political party in mid-century Germany. In the context above, I don’t think it’s a serious mistake to also capitalize “Grammar.” I think that’s a grammar gray area. Sieg Heil, Bob, Honey!

  • garyd

    Why? So you obama voters can understand it.Who cares if you can or can’t.

  • Alice Polarbear

    The only reason they’re doing it is to discourage the Flea-baggers.

  • Mitch Pawl

    I pitch a tent every morning before i get out of bed

  • Jim

    Grammer Nazi’s what? Grammer Nazi was on Cheers for a while, then he had his own show. Is that the same guy?

  • carol

    Who would set up a tent days in advance just to save a few bucks? or even a hundred or so? or some new gadget that will soon be available to all?

  • bt1911

    You sure have a thing against your grammer. Maybe your gramper should’ve kicked your a$$ when you were younger to teach you some respect.

  • http://www.fastnews.tv/?p=117714 BEST BUY bans tents outside stores… | Breaking News

    [...] column, 1st story, link) Related stories: Black Friday Comes Early: Stores Offer Thanksgiving Sales…Demonstrators [...]

  • Tim

    That was the Soup Nazi :-)

  • JD

    How nice. That idiot pitches a tent and leaves and expects it to count as being first in line.

  • Steve

    Really, really, really stupid people.

  • Cheech

    What will they do next?…I mean, lots of guys pitch a tent any time Best Buy has a sale.

  • http://www.fastnews.tv/?p=117724 Demonstrators Plan to 'Occupy' Retailers Friday… | Breaking News

    [...] column, 3rd story, link) Related stories: BEST BUY bans tents outside stores…Black Friday Comes Early: Stores Offer Thanksgiving Sales…Protests cost nation’s cities [...]

  • Max17

    Last year, 2 minutes before the doors were unlocked I appeared at the far end of the Best Buy parking lot with 2 grocery bags full of old newspapers and a bullhorn. I announced, “Free Obamacash! Come and get your Obamacash!”

    My wife was first in the store. No wait. No pushing. No shoving.

    People who camp in front of discount stores are not very sharp.

  • Sammie Jo

    plus, he said he lost his place while “he was gone”, so how is that the store’s fault he lost his place?
    I wouldn’t care if they were giving away a new truck for 25 cents, I would not be there.

  • Sammie Jo

    Now THAT’S funny! lol

  • http://ny9solyndra.wordpress.com NY9Solyndra

    I can’t wait until Obama and the Democrats are kicked out of office.

    Back on December 31, 2006, unemployment was 4.4% and federal debt was $8.4T.

    Three days later, Democrats took total control of the 110th Congress. That’s when the misery started.

    Now, unemployment is well over 9%. Debt is $15T.

    Say thank you to Democrats in Congress!

  • Jerry Allen

    #1 gets a “tickle me elmoi”

  • Jerry Allen

    got it..and that is funny

  • Larry

    “Best Buy is Roseville is telling would-be customers”

    Best Buy IN Roseville is telling would-be customers

    FTFY

  • Jerry Allen

    it’s obummmmer…can’t you spell?

  • TJ

    English

  • Jon Baker

    This is going to real interesting, I have my popcorn , drinks, and raisinettes ready. This isn’t a park or Wall Street. You try to stop these black friday shoppers from buying their holiday junk, watch out! throw the police in the mix, fireworks! Man I can’t wait. But these limp wristers wanna be warrior protesters will probably just
    stand across the street shouting dumb things no one will care about while the world continues to turn and people spend and make money. I hope they do something stupid on this next installment of the Occupy Nothing show. Please make our day.

  • http://www.fastnews.tv/?p=117743 Demonstrators Plan to 'Occupy' Struggling Retailers as they try to turn profit… | Breaking News

    [...] headline, 1st story, link) Related stories: BEST BUY bans tents outside stores…Tea Party retaliates with ‘BUYcott’ Black [...]

  • Joel A

    Let’s see..you left and you still want your spot? I don’t think so!

  • maestro ingles

    “English” is capitalized.

  • maestro ingles

    I’s gonna lern ya some gooder english grammer

  • maestro ingles

    Ob*ma has destroyed the economy. Gov. Moonbeam is doing his part, too. I just don’t see how anyone has any extra money to spend.

  • quint

    Actually, I’ve been told repeatedly by friends from across the pond that we speak “American”, no English.

  • Mommyof3

    That is funny because there were plenty of tents outside the Best Buy here.

  • Mommyof3

    Amen!

  • cybro

    Support the 1%. Occupy Best Buy.

  • http://www.fastnews.tv/?p=117753 Tea Party retaliates with 'BUYcott' Black Friday… | Breaking News

    [...] (Top headline, 3rd story, link) Related stories: Demonstrators Plan to ‘Occupy’ Struggling Retailers as they try to turn profit…BEST BUY bans tents outside stores… [...]

  • g

    Don’t spend until the muslim America-hating Kenyan president Obama is out of office. Vote him OUT .

  • keith

    Obama High School in Chicago

  • Rich

    How about leaving and shopping somewhere more consumer friendly. People are such stooges.

  • Gibbs Bentley

    “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” ~ H. L. Mencken

    http://911essentials.com

  • Elihu Wygant

    Crazier than Loons!

  • Japes Macfarland

    State run education. Thank Carter and the Left.

  • Knightflyer

    I have never been able to figure out why a bunch of morons wouls wait in line,sometimes for days to be the first to get trampled on.Those people are idiots.I wish I did not feel that way but I do.Happy Thanksgiving and a very Merry CHRISTMAS to all that use their brains.

  • Keith

    This is not true, just drove by the local Best Buy, Tents were lined up to the front door…

  • Bob Dudek

    TO GET AN OUTDATED laptop for 298 bucks.
    Then watch it sell for 200 a week later on AMAZON.
    That’s why.

  • Jbiss

    Just great. Let’s destroy publicly traded corporations so that approximately 60% of Americans who have a public pension fund (meaning ALL public employees), or own individual stocks or bonds, or own a mutual fund can have their assets WIPE OUT. Is the American public really that ignorant not to recognize that the majority of us have assets invested in publicly traded Wall Street corporations.

    If these assets disappear then we all can be COMPLETELY dependent and controlled by the government. Is that really what the “99% “of us want? I know I sure don’t. I would rather have a healthy retirement account made up of profit generating corporations then count of the OWS crowd to take of me and my family. Why these people can’t even clean up their own filth.

  • hkremer

    you don’t know what you’re talking about. Brown has been in place, what, a year? This state has been through hell with Wilson, Davis and “I’ll Be Back” Schwarzenegger

  • Jeffrey Babey

    We drove by the Best Buy on 494 in Bloomington Mn and tents lined the side of the building. Best Buy even brought in porta potties for them.

  • SerfCityHereWeCome

    Quick, hurry up and buy now before the 80% off Going-Out-Of-Business sales next month! HURRY! LMAO!

  • Dannyboy

    Quint, that is very true, but have you listened to the English people speak lately? There doesn’t seem to be much English being spoken in England anymore, either, despite the Brits who like to sight down their noses at us uppity Colonials and proclaim that we’re nothing but a bunch of uneducated plebes. Public education dumbs down everyone, the English included.

  • Truth

    Hell with Wilson??? State sales tax with “Wilson” was at 7%. He rebuilt the 5 and 10 fwy in less than a year after the Northridge earthquake , plus left his term with a surplus…you are a moron…go back to school and get an education.

  • http://www.fastnews.tv/?p=117848 Demonstrators to 'Occupy' Struggling Retailers as They Try Turning Profit… | Breaking News

    [...] headline, 1st story, link) Related stories: BEST BUY bans tents outside stores…Tea Party retaliates with ‘BUYcott’ Black [...]

  • labillyboy

    Lot’s of tents at both the Best Buys I just passed a couple hours ago on the way home from dinner. I sure don’t get why anyone would sleep in a parking lot to save a couple hundred bucks… but if the want to it’s no skin off my back. Let ‘em have their fun…

  • jay a

    4th in line… I’m crying

  • Canof Sand

    Anyone who voted for Brown is a moron. Brown admitted in a television interview that last time he ran, he LIED in order to be elected and he LIED to the voters while he was governor. The guy is a self-admitted liar who lies brazenly and unashamedly to the voters. And you idiots (or shall we say “useful idiots”) reelected him. The majority of Californian voters are braindead.

  • Canof Sand

    Does the story say “all Best Buy stores”? No, it doesn’t. Read before posting, please.

  • james

    Look what these idiots are doing to our nation. This is not patriotic. This is a heard of morons protesting in the wrong place. They should be camping at 1600 Penn. Ave.

  • james

    Yep, hard to get a job these days if you have to pass a drug test. Poor them…

  • james

    I’m glad to live in the south. We put up with none of that nonsense here.

  • somied
  • anita daeoph

    If I were behind the guy “in line” and he saved his spot with his tent, I sure as heck would be angry and maybe move his tent for him…
    One more thing: with the time these people are in line, it would be cheaper to just work those hours, and with the extra cash buy whatever it is on a normal sale- at a normal time- not mess with losing one’s place in line.

  • http://www.politic.co.uk/united-states-politics-forum/20996-obama-presidency-564.html#post372315 The Obama Presidency – Page 339

    [...] Obama Presidency Demonstrators to 'Occupy' Struggling Retailers as They Try Turning Profit… BEST BUY bans tents outside stores… Tea Party retaliates with 'BUYcott' Black Friday… — Right there you have the difference [...]

  • steve

    So the guy puts his tent up and leaves and that’s supposed to hold his place? What an idiot.

  • dbeall

    Unfortunately chic a significant number of Americans have no idea what free speech means. To liberals, free speech means they can say and do whatever they want with no consequences whatsoever and everyone has to agree with them.

  • dbeall

    Nice job :)

  • Booger McCoy

    I went to my local Best Buy on Wednesday and not only was there a tent first in line but the guy had an extension cord plugged into BB’s outdoor outlet. When I saw the store manager I commented on how “nice it was of them” to let the guy use their electricity. He had a look of shock on his face and immediately went out and made the guy unplug. Heheheheheh….

  • Georgiasaraann

    They don’t speak English either. And tell your snotty friends to get their teeth fixed and send them a toothbrush.

  • Deep

    The headline is false. In Signal Hill (Long Beach) Ca I drove past them yesterday and they had tents lined around the building and on the side walks on cherry avenue

  • http://www.urbansurvival.com/blog/?p=4579 Double Meaning to “Black Friday?” | UrbanSurvival

    [...] Retailers, like Best Buy, are now allowing shoppers to pitch tents, which makes sense to anyone with 3 or more functioning brain cells:  Who needs the aggravation of terminal shopping disease, anyway? [...]

  • raul ford

    liberalized people are SO stupid and dumbed down.

  • raul ford

    liberalized people are SO stupid, and dumbed down…

  • chris

    people are sick, consumerism and materialism at it’s worst – why would any sane person camp in front of a store, for anything?

  • JohnD

    Learn to read moron.
    It was talking about one store. NOT all of the Best Buys.
    You must me one of the OWS wierdos

  • BUBBA BROWN

    DAMM HIPPIES AND THEIR TENTS !

  • Jeremiah

    Hey, I have an idea! Get a life! And that does not involve some gadget.

  • Japes Macfarland

    Yet the line wasn’t moving as they were waiting for the store to open in the morning. So he earned that spot in spite of security taking away his tent. And stop calling people names.
    p.s.
    Are you a leftist?

  • duku

    You must be a terrorist/socialist/pianist

  • randy williams

    I do not shop at “best buy” any longer due to their “so – called” return policy.
    ( Lower case letters ARE intentional, and indicate how much that I do NOT shop there any longer!

  • http://www.fastnews.tv/?p=118262 'Zombie' protester arrested… | Breaking News

    [...] to ‘Occupy’ Struggling Retailers as They Try Turning Profit…BEST BUY bans tents outside stores…Tea Party retaliates with ‘BUYcott’ Black [...]

  • http://www.fastnews.tv/?p=118328 MAYOR: 'Occupy LA' must leave city hall by Monday… | Breaking News

    [...] to ‘Occupy’ Struggling Retailers as They Try Turning Profit…BEST BUY bans tents outside stores…‘Zombie’ protester arrested…Tea Party retaliates with ‘BUYcott’ Black [...]

  • http://www.fastnews.tv/?p=118335 'Occupy Indianapolis' recruit homeless to keep protests going… | Breaking News

    [...] to ‘Occupy’ Struggling Retailers as They Try Turning Profit…BEST BUY bans tents outside stores…‘Zombie’ protester arrested…Tea Party retaliates with ‘BUYcott’ Black [...]

  • Kip Noxzema

    If a shopper loses 3 places in line and is angry, I would try to kick his *ss out of the store. That guy’s dangerous.

  • The Blogger

    It’s just so stupid. Camp out for a good deal?

    More than likely these people are going to re sell this stuff on eBay

    http://www.sacramento-blog-uncut.blogspot.com

  • artic slayer

    For months now I have been watching the ows and I see no difference than the ows of 911. It is the same mentality…. People that have should not have. AM I WRONG to think this way??? I have seen on the news reports of rape, drugs, masterbation in public, defication in public, riots, killings, and no answer to fixing what they are tring to fix… To me they are natural born (and I thing not so many natural born) terrorist bent on taking away every freedom that is America. Just as radical muslums and I emphasize radical… IF it takes a war to end a war then so be it… either political, physical, mental, or just spankin thier little social butts… something I doubt that ANY of them ever had…. A good old fashion spankin… So be it!!!

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