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Shopping frenzy tramples right over the reason for the season

Published December 1, 2008, 6:54 pm, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

During the Tickle Me Elmo craze of 1996, throngs of Christmas shoppers mobbed stores for a shot at buying a vibrating Muppet toy. There were injuries and arrests, and one Wal-Mart clerk was knocked unconscious by a surge of 300 shoppers.

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