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Retail worker trampled to death Black Friday morning VIDEO
By April MacIntyre Nov 28, 2008, 17:46 GMT
Wal-Mart tragedy in New York: Terrible morning - awful retail tradition. EPA/JUSTIN LANE
A Wal-Mart employee was knocked down by early morning shopping hordes and trampled to death as he tried to regain his footing.
The tragedy happened in suburban New York as the annual post-Thanksgiving bargain hunting turned into a mindless melee.
The deceased was described by CNN as a 34-year-old employee.
The unidentified Wal-Mart employee was pushed down as a crowd pressed against glass doors and broke down the entryway to the Green Acres Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y.
The worker was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital at 6 a.m.
Three other shoppers were injured and a 28-year-old pregnant woman was taken to the hospital for observation during the early morning crush.
CNN reported that people were pushing and pulling the doors from their hinges and rushing into the store. Children were reported to be included in the crowd of bargain-crazed shoppers.
Wal-Mart has not released an official statement as of yet regarding their employee's death.
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your silly little post has been noted. Even you know that was just another little 'lance cheap-shot'.
Cheap shot? Have you got your head up your ass? This is happening every year now, I can show you the past newspaper articles. From trampling to fights and now this young man dead. This is a sick sick society we live in so get your head out of your ass. Lance is right on. People are crying and whining like a bunch of diapered babies that times are tough and government please please bail me out of my mortgage on that house I knew I could not afford or make that nasty old banker re-negotiate my loan, after all I can't read or understand what I'm signing. Yet people are lined up by the thousands buying tvs, video games and you name it and mostly on credit. Even if they don't have it who cares the new messiah will bail them out after all didn't I hear people actually saying Mr. O is going to apy their mortgage for them? Yes I did! Trampling a young man to death all to buy junk people don't need so they can take it back anyway. What a sick sick society.
Actually, if you think about it very hard you will realize it is very important.
I know of at least (actually more than) two United States:
(1) The one I grew up in: Five and dime stores owned and operated by local business men that knew me as a child.
(2) The current one: Mega-stores run by billionaires that sell things so they can buy larger jets and yachts and don't give a shit about me.
I simply prefer one United States over the other.
It is not that I hate the United States, it is simply that I realize there has been more than one United States and I have a preference as to the one I like.
Your kind, on the other hand, are bigoted fools that only acknowledge one United States because you are blind to alternatives.
Here's a worthwhile read:
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/3525234/Encourage d-by-a-wicked-wizard-Greenspan-Bernanke-toils-at-his-printing-press.html
Seee I told you so. Now gunfire erupts at a Toys 'R' Us in Palm Desert. It is happeing everywhere and every year now. What is happening to society? This never ever happended when I was a kid, never.
This kind of thing has happened for years and is nothing new. This may be new to you if around 20 years of age. It has happened at concerts, malls, football games and while it is a shame it is not new. This is certainly not Wal Marts fault but of the ignorant shoppers. Wal Mart will get sued and the redneck, gangster, hip hop, ignorant and liberal minded will feel great satisfaction the big evil corporation 'got theirs'. This is of course regardless of the fact that a large group of individuals are actually to blame. I hope they round up every one they can catch on camera and lock them away after the courts bankrupt them for restitution. That would be justice and would serve as an example. It is called individual responsibility and it starts with you.
Kevin
don't give a damn who gets killed.its all money money money.
...what is SO valuable in a WalMart anyways???
'This is certainly not Wal Marts fault'
Actually, you may be wrong about that. Walmart has a legal duty to provide for safe circumstances. They can not whip everyone up in a frenzy and then not provide crowd control. They may be legally accountable for this incident.
Walmart should never attract more people then their store can comfortably permit and they should careful help out customers. No long lines should form and they should not incite a riot by advertising products that can make or brake the budget of a family (cheap stuff). Some people actually shop at Walmart so they don't starve. If you reduce prices then they can starve-less. That is a very emotional strategy that the Walmart execs count on.
Any sensible person would not run a store like Walmart. It is incredibly understaffed, huge lines form and they attract desperate people that need cheap stuff made by slave labor in China and the likes of that.
All in my opinion of course (as a matter of free speech and as to not provoke slander charges).
Kevin,
No it hasn't been around for years. It is getting more frequent with every year and I have probably been around longer than you-since the late 40s and no it did not happen then, nor in the 50s, 60s or even in the 70s.
Do shoppers care more about shopping than about the life of a store employee.
Look at California, there too was violence the order of the day at a toy store.
America is going down the toilet, and Americans have their priorities screwed up!
I think this death wasn't worth it. Seriously, these people killed a man like this? Seriously, it's not worth it. Such a tragic and ironic incident...
That is so terrible. What have we become. People don't seem to care anymore.
If someone had yelled 'He's got a gun!!!' the cheap and cowardly walmart mob might have been dispersed before the poor guy died.
If you ever find yourself being crushed by a mob or see someone being trampled just yell 'I've got AIDS' or 'He's got a bomb' to get the dumb people away.
Though never a good thing, people around the world are trampled to death quite often. How wise would it be to yell 'he's got a bomb' when this would cause a stampede and liable to get more innocents killed. Let us not forget that America has many good, decent folks amongst the rot.
Yours,
American Dissident
This is just plain pathetic.
People are just not being taught good manners or self-control anymore. Not in the home and not in the schools. Here a man has lost his life because of it. We don't have full details, but it could be that some little children had no father to come home from work that evening, or a widow grieving because of other people's ignorance and selfishness.
I see a number of posters are using this as a crutch to bash Americans again. But that's all they need is any type of a springboard to launch off into their usual tirades. It's true this one happened in California, but it's not just an American problem. I recall a few years back when a number of people were trampled to death at a soccer game in England. A man was killed by the crowds at a baseball game in Osaka, Japan last year. I can't remember the details, but it seems there was another in India just last year. It's a worldwide attitude problem.
I don't particularly blame Wal*Mart for this death, and I'm sick of people knocking Wal*Mart. This giant was started in a small shop by one man, and along the way, people were intelligent enough to grow it into the biggest store in the world. I'm not affiliated with them at all, but I damn well spend a lot of money there because of their lower food prices and lower prices on name brand items. As far as this death and any other that is caused by a rush of shoppers - I do think these stores should not advertise these great prices for a short length of time with a limited number of that item. That's just asking for a tragedy like this. There has to be a better way to handle Black Friday. And the bottom line is the people who act like heathens.
A sorry bunch. I pity you fools.
Believe what you want, but these things and much worse happen everywhere, not just in the U.S. Everything that happens in the U.S. is reported around the world, so people know every little detail.
This blood is on Wal-Mart as much as the bastards who trampled that man to death. Retailers dangle a finite limited amount of door buster giveaways to entice these hordes- 5 or 6 of an item that 500-5000 come to buy, and this is what happens.
and the ignoramuses don't have to act like stupid herd of cattle either.
This kind of behavior is ridiculous. Every one of those people should be ashamed of themselves. Hope they remember the blood on their hands with every gift they unwrap.
People who would act like that don't have the mentality to be ashamed.
Did they get their bargains at the tills or were they inconvenienced by the death of that store employee? Did they express any remorse at their infantile behavior? Do they get banned from Walmart or are they considered valued customers? Under normal circumstances I'd expect members of the public who kill store employees to at the very least get barred. Am I naive?
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lanceNov 28th, 2008 - 18:06:17
Your government is flooding the marketplace with cash so you can put your children's future in hock. So, go out now and buy! buy! buy! all that cheap shit at Walmart!!! Do not save for your child's college education, do not pass go. Get as much money as you can borrow and buy! buy! buy! Even if you have to kill someone in the moment.
Anything else is unAmerican!!!
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