Posted on 11/28/2008 7:02:13 AM PST by GQuagmire
A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.
The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.
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Sounds like maybe a good lawsuit will help WalMart rethink its Black Friday shopping process. I don’t understand the allure of Black Friday.
“He was bum-rushed by 200 people,” said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. “They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back.””
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I am from back east and my wife is from out west.
We went to one of these kinds of sales and I told her to stand back and let me fight over what we wanted.
She did not believe me until she saw it happen and she was glade she had stood out of the way.
Hope the perps got that $300 laptop. Hey if you can legally kill babies and old people, what’s a Walmart greeter here and there?
Another example of wrongful worshipping of the almighty $$$$.
Rather than opening up the sales to anyone, why can’t they identify their loyal customers by tracking purchases or by self-identification during the year and allow them to take advantage of special bargains at Christmas? At it is, the bargains go to the able-bodied jerks who push and shove to get what they want. I have little doubt that most of the people in these crowds probably didn’t realize there were injured people there until they were literally on top of them and that the push from the outside was complicating matters. I just think the store ought to focus on those who support them throughout the year and offer them deals without requiring a post-Thanksgiving rush.
Perhaps, but more likely there just aren't as many people. Huge crowds are dangerous by definition. It only takes one person to do something stupid and set off a panic, and a huge panicked crowd is unable to organize to act rationally.
These folks stomp a human to death over Chinese plastic junk. Imagine if there is a food shortage.
I have an intense discomfort in and around crowds. Any crowd. People in masses like this are dumb, stupid, panicky animals and- these days, are potential targets.
I like out of the way places that are good, but nobody knows about. When they get 'discovered', I move on.
Now that’s a scary thought.
FTA: "He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back."
What ever happened to class, dignity, restraint, respect, consideration and compassion? When did humans turn into animals?
It’s not funny, but it is incredible and a shame. I wonder what the poor guy must have thought just before he opened the door. I wonder what the shoppers thought as they trampled over him. Not to mention the mother that miscarried. 2 deaths for the love of a good bargain.
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I had to go in through the front door of the paper.
Try this link
Most kids I know today are exactly the same way.
There may come a time in the near future where we don't have to imagine.
Watch out for falling prices...
“I’m betting the crowd was egged on by a media presence. Isn’t inciting a riot against the law, even if it does make for exciting footage on the evening news?”
A good recipe for a riot is advertising an incredible deal “while supplies last” - when everyone knows that item will be sold to the first 100 or 200 customers.
I’m reminded of last year’s Toys R Us ad for a $300 Zune on sale that day for $100.
Hundreds waited outside for hours in the bitter winter wind.
How many did they actually have in stock?
15.
“Huge crowds are dangerous by definition.”
Quote from the movie “Men in Black”
Edwards: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.
Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.
It's called "mob rule", and it's as old as the hills. The trouble is, today it's more intense thanks to the all-knowing, all-seeing lofty liberal views and legislation passed, where you have every excuse in the book to get away with breaking the rules, mean spirited acts, stealing and even murder in some cases.
What a world they've given us! Some how, I can't wait for the "Last Days" to complete!
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