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Black Friday. A night of chaos and the notorious consumers scrambling for desired gifts at a cheap price. This Friday is a big friday for store employees, and in an attempt to organise the ambitious shoppers in the packed stores, shelf markers are used to clearly show where everything is. This was the job of a specific balloon. These balloons are the last thing on these employees minds; however, it was not an expected event when a 19 year old took an amusing balloon right out of the store in small town Brillion, Wisconsin.

Nineteen year-old Carson Miller was walking around the local Shopko with her uncle, Al Cook. While shopping for a Christmas present for Miller’s sister, Cook saw a balloon marking the aisle for boys’ items on one side, and

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