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Black Friday frenzy: A long night's journey into savings

Call it crazy. Because the people who spend all night in a Best Buy parking lot to buy cheap computers and TVs call it that. At 8:30 Thursday morning, when most people were putting a Thanksgiving turkey into the oven, Elaine Shropshire of Columbia pulled up to Best Buy on Two Notch Road and unloaded a recliner from her car. Yes, a recliner. And, yes, she questioned her sanity.
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