Ok, how many times does lighting strike the US every day? How many Black Fridays are there every year?
Let's just assume that this level of violence is constant, and there's a Black Friday every day of the year (which doesn't make much sense at all): Multiply those 4 deaths by 365 and it's not hard to see that this is more fatal than lightning. However I think the nearly equally disgusting part is the fact that people are getting hurt at all. You're lining up to spend your money, calm down.
Apparently you don't know much about lightning if you are multiplying by 365.
Re:Black Friday death count
by thisisdave on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @06:55PM
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But that covers all days of the year, right? So the corresponding number for just Black Friday would probably be 0 or 1 deaths by lightning.
Fair enough, re Black Friday being a single day per year. There are around 2.5MM deaths per year in the US, which works out to around 47,000 on the Black Fridays during the time period (assuming the numbers are average).
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/statistics.htm