| November 23, 2005 | - Violent shopping incidents occurred in Hamilton Township, New Jersey; Elkton, Maryland; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Orlando, Florida; and Sunrise, Florida, where a 72-year-old woman was trampled.
| Source 1:
WTOPNews.com
Source 2:
NBC10.com
Source 3:
The Miami Herald
Source 4:
Reuters
Source 5:
KYW.com
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| April 13, 2005 | -
Hungary was planning to let prostitutes solicit in shopping malls.
| Source:
Daily Times
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| March 30, 2004 | - It was reported that the U.S. government's main laboratory for mad-cow testing, which is located in an Iowa strip mall, is not secure enough to store dangerous pathogens.
| Source: Reuters
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| November 29, 2003 | - A Wal-Mart shopper in Orange City, Florida, was trampled and knocked unconscious during a stampede at a Wal-Mart Supercenter; the stampede occurred at the 6 a.m. opening of a big sale. The victim, who was first in line, was found clutching a DVD player.
| Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal, New York Times
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| November 27, 2003 | - Advanced Digital Solutions announced that it has developed a system to use subdermal implants to make credit-card payments using radio frequency identification, or RFID. Privacy advocates were not amused: "If we establish a robust credit-card network based on RFID chips implanted under the skin," said one, "we are also creating the infrastructure for potential government surveillance."
| Source: New Scientist
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| October 14, 2003 | - A deer invaded a clothing store in Linden, New Jersey,
| Source: New York Times
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| October 16, 2001 | - A new survey found that 52 percent of American women prefer shopping to sex; 93 percent of men prefer sex.
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| September 4, 2001 | - Former president Bill Clinton went bikini shopping in Rio de Janeiro.
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| May 29, 2001 | - A Chicago judge decided not to send a woman to jail for wire fraud because she claimed to be a shopping addict.
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| May 22, 2001 | - The Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot observed that “only a revenge-seeking fool could believe that eliminations and missile fire, the demolition of neighborhoods, the killing of soldiers and civilians and the destruction of homes could restore personal calm and security.” A Palestinian
suicide bomber killed ten Israelis and wounded 100 others at a shopping mall; Israel responded with F-16 air strikes.
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| May 22, 2001 | -
Police in Saudi Arabia gave seven teenage boys 15 lashes each for leering at women at shopping malls; the offenses included slipping girls phone numbers, whistling, talking to them, even winking.
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| November 30, 2000 | - A crowd of 2,000 shoppers in search of Black Friday bargains gathered in front of a Long Island Wal-Mart at 5 a.m., shattered the store's sliding-glass double doors, and rushed into the store, killing 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour, a temporary worker hired for the holiday season, in the stampede. “It was crazy,” said a worker in the electronics department. “The deals weren't even that good.”
| Source:
New York Times
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