--- title: Black Friday Brawl: Is This Video for Real? description: Could the hottest item in stores this year really be a vegetable steamer? canonical: https://time.com/4128232/black-friday-brawl-video/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-27T18:49:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:27:10.233Z og:title: Is This Black Friday Brawl for Real? og:description: Could the hottest item in stores this year really be a vegetable steamer? og:url: https://time.com/4128232/black-friday-brawl-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Is This Black Friday Brawl for Real? twitter:description: Could the hottest item in stores this year really be a vegetable steamer? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Is This Black Friday Brawl for Real? by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 27, 2015 6:49 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 27, 2015 6:49 PM UTC Black Friday is known for its brawls, but one video out of Saginaw, Mich. this year was especially outrageous. It appears to show an adult woman snatching a vegetable steamer out of a kid’s hands before the kid’s mother tries to wrestle the box back from her. But [some say the footage looks staged](http://www.dailydot.com/lol/black-friday-veggie-steamer-fight-fake/), particularly the moment when the first woman yells “Why are you being so aggressive? You’re scaring me!” The video was posted Friday by an anonymous user on YouTube who had never posted anything to the site, and quickly drew skeptical comments. Watch above to see what you think. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4128232/black-friday-brawl-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4128232/black-friday-brawl-video/"},"headline":"Is This Black Friday Brawl for Real?","datePublished":"2015-11-27T18:49:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:10.233Z","description":"Could the hottest item in stores this year really be a vegetable steamer?","url":"https://time.com/4128232/black-friday-brawl-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4128232/black-friday-brawl-video/","name":"Is This Black Friday Brawl for Real?"}}]}] ```