Wal-Mart worker dies-shoppers Killed him

MrBrian

NEW YORK – A Wal-Mart worker was killed Friday after an "out of control" throng of shoppers eager for post-Thanksgiving bargains broke down the doors at a suburban store and knocked him to the ground, police said.

At least four other people, including a woman eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries, and the store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening.

"This crowd was out of control," said Nassau police spokesman Lt. Michael Fleming. He described the scene as "utter chaos."

Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like "savages."

"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling 'I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" she said. "They kept shopping."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081128/ap_on_re_us/wal_mart_death

ediger

the human race is pathetic...

unifiedscene

I don't even know what to say to this. Somewhere along the line, this country and the people in it went horribly wrong...

Thoughts_Arrive

"They don't push. Don't crowd.
Congregate until they're much too loud."

"They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way.
Don't pack themselves together and run as one.
Don't shit where they're not supposed to.
Don't take what's not theirs. They don't compare."


The song could not be more true.

Kann

unifiedscene wrote:

I don't even know what to say to this. Somewhere along the line, this country and the people in it went horribly wrong...

It's not your country, it's the western society with its love for overconsumption. I think this story sums up cynically what we are doing to ourselves, it's pathetic, dangerous and completely egoistical.

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

The song could not be more true.

http://www.polyp.org.uk/cartoons/consumerism/polyp_cartoon_Rat_Race.jpg

Thoughts_Arrive

Me Me Me Me Me Me!!!!!

gobrowns19

As others have said, what is really disgusting to me is that this isn't even that big of a shock to most people that something like this would happen.

We hear all these stories all the time and kind of become immune or numb to them, but this one, i don't know, really sticks out to me.

iamica

What really gets me about this story is that it seems that none of the customers in the store cared that someone had gotten killed. When they announced that they were closing because an employee had gotten trampled, people got all indignant and wouldn't leave. That's what really disgusts me.

prytoj

You have to consider the types of of folks who participate in black friday early-hours shopping, and couple that with a hysteria that can only be self-exacerbated by a mass of people.

The folks we are talking about here are the ultra of the commercialized, the types who buy tabloid magazines and wanna be paparazzi. Not the brightest peeps.

the only surprise here is the 8 months pregnant woman. The fact that she was out there to begin with is pretty freakin' dumb by any standard. Gotta get that chinese made crap i guess.

mickeyrat

The ONLY bright spot in this , is the baby is doing ok.

LiteTheMatch

ediger wrote:

the human race is pathetic...

Not everyone!

pateljam

mickeyrat wrote:

The ONLY bright spot in this , is the baby is doing ok.

Yeah so the baby can be a black friday shopper on his/her own in 18-20 years...

_Crazy_Mary_

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

"They don't push. Don't crowd.
Congregate until they're much too loud."

"They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way.
Don't pack themselves together and run as one.
Don't shit where they're not supposed to.
Don't take what's not theirs. They don't compare."


The song could not be more true.

I don't see how this "song could not be more true."

Hellooooo?! ... a person is dead because they were crowded and pushed. Quite the opposite.

mickeyrat

pateljam wrote:

Yeah so the baby can be a black friday shopper on his/her own in 18-20 years...

so you would have prefered the child died too? WTF?

pateljam

mickeyrat wrote:

so you would have prefered the child died too? WTF?

No I didn't say that so don't fucking put words in my mouth.

I just meant that this is a never ending cycle and stupid people breed stupid kids...

Our country has turned into a shit hole and people are content as long as they can buy a god damn GPS for 75.00

Where does this madness end... it doesn't...

mickeyrat

pateljam wrote:

No I didn't say that so don't fucking put words in my mouth.

I just meant that this is a never ending cycle and stupid people breed stupid kids...

Our country has turned into a shit hole and people are content as long as they can buy a god damn GPS for 75.00

Where does this madness end... it doesn't...

being known as The "walmart" baby might have a positive affect. Then again with the mother this child has , being there at 8 months, it's not likely

Jeanwah

I think as a society, somewhere in the last 10 years we've taken on the persona of just a "consumer" and have dropped the identity and emotion of "human".

Unless the revolution of buying and consuming less ever wins. It will be a win for humans and awesome loss for the corporations.

lalalalaaaaaaaa

I hope they charge as many people with manslaughter, obstruction, etc. as they can. I hope NY has some good Samaritan laws.

I really don't understand things sometimes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQelTyvGLY

my2hands

MrBrian wrote:

NEW YORK – A Wal-Mart worker was killed Friday after an "out of control" throng of shoppers eager for post-Thanksgiving bargains broke down the doors at a suburban store and knocked him to the ground, police said.

At least four other people, including a woman eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries, and the store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening.

"This crowd was out of control," said Nassau police spokesman Lt. Michael Fleming. He described the scene as "utter chaos."

Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like "savages."

"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling 'I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" she said. "They kept shopping."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081128/ap_on_re_us/wal_mart_death

unreal

satansbedbugs

did you hear the one about the pregnant walmart worker who miscarried because of the madness on black friday??

even more unreal...

sbb

Maicojames

Absolutely agree!!!! When I was a manager I had Black Friday to a science, we actually rehearsed the opening..not once were we able to get ahead. ..We were shcedluled to open at 6 am, we got there at 3 am-and had to open registers at 4 am.

Personally, i protected my people-as they were the ones working for little up to a little more to enable me to make more....and more than once I had popped someone who needed it, and booted a few out

Thoughts_Arrive

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

I don't see how this "song could not be more true."

Hellooooo?! ... a person is dead because they were crowded and pushed. Quite the opposite.

Ummmm, I am referring to rats being better behaved than humans.
Duh!

BinGnarly

Gross.

MrBrian

By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press Writer Colleen Long, Associated Press Writer – Sat Nov 29, 8:04 pm ET

NEW YORK – Police are reviewing surveillance videos of a post-Thanksgiving shopper stampede that trampled a suburban Wal-Mart worker to death, but they acknowledge it may be difficult to bring criminal charges.

Nassau County police and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said no new information was available Saturday on the employee's brutal death, which rattled shoppers even as they flocked to the Valley Stream store a day later.

"It felt a little freakish," customer Ellie Berhun, 48, told the Daily News. "Some man lost his life because a VCR was on sale? Please. It's just too sad for words."

Police said the temporary worker, Jdimytai Damour, was mowed down as about 2,000 bargain-hunters surged into the store at Friday's 5 a.m. opening, leaving a metal portion of the door frame crumpled like an accordion.

Other workers were knocked to the ground as they tried to rescue Damour, and customers simply stepped over him and kept shopping even as the store announced it was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said

Thoughts_Arrive

I thought VCR's were out....

Jeanwah

MrBrian wrote:

By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press Writer Colleen Long, Associated Press Writer – Sat Nov 29, 8:04 pm ET

NEW YORK – Police are reviewing surveillance videos of a post-Thanksgiving shopper stampede that trampled a suburban Wal-Mart worker to death, but they acknowledge it may be difficult to bring criminal charges.

Nassau County police and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said no new information was available Saturday on the employee's brutal death, which rattled shoppers even as they flocked to the Valley Stream store a day later.

"It felt a little freakish," customer Ellie Berhun, 48, told the Daily News. "Some man lost his life because a VCR was on sale? Please. It's just too sad for words."

Police said the temporary worker, Jdimytai Damour, was mowed down as about 2,000 bargain-hunters surged into the store at Friday's 5 a.m. opening, leaving a metal portion of the door frame crumpled like an accordion.

Other workers were knocked to the ground as they tried to rescue Damour, and customers simply stepped over him and kept shopping even as the store announced it was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said

This is odd. They're actually asking for the shoppers to come forward? This is all of our fault's. It's the problem with society and the media, yet they'll look for the individuals rather than address the real problem here? I'm so not surprised.

JaneNY

hartamh wrote:

Just think this kid was just going to work, and then all of a sudden being mowed down by a crowd of people that had to make sure they were first to get in the store:mad:.

My heart goes out to this poor kid and his family:(.
It is such a horrible thing. What our society turning into, I just can't absorb why this happened:(

I read in another article that he was 34, so not exactly a kid, but its just as bad.

Unfortunately human nature is a certain way, and Wal Mart by the way they operate the black friday sales, create an atmosphere of competition and scarcity, so that people feel they have to compete with each other if they want one of the few of the coveted items that's in the store. It brings out the worst in people. The store bears some responsibility for not having proper crowd control in place. Having attended many shows and watched crowd behavior, this seems not too different than GA at shows, except that there are barriers and security and better crowd control at the shows.

kenny olav

My asst manager at work was talking about this story on Friday and for some sick reason he was getting a good chuckle out of it. Not only that, but there was an incident a few weeks ago where he was on a bus that ran over and killed a mentally-disabled woman, and he though he said it was "gross" he still was laughing about it. Anyway, if he should ever get trampled on or run over, I won't laugh, but I will be a little bit happy about it.


EDIT: Maybe it's just a coincidence, but my asst manager happens to be from NYC.

aNiMaL

Kenny Olav wrote:

My asst manager at work was talking about this story on Friday and for some sick reason he was getting a good chuckle out of it. Not only that, but there was an incident a few weeks ago where he was on a bus that ran over and killed a mentally-disabled woman, and he though he said it was "gross" he still was laughing about it. Anyway, if he should ever get trampled on or run over, I won't laugh, but I will be a little bit happy about it.


EDIT: Maybe it's just a coincidence, but my asst manager happens to be from NYC.

If I were you, I would have gone off on what a piece of shit your assistant manager is...no matter what the consequence was.

And if I were in charge of the Walmart the morning that the guy died, I would have killed the power to the entire store so all the registers would not work, get a fucking bull horn and proceed to go around and shout at all the dumb mother fuckers who refused to leave the store after the guy died. I would have made a fucking spectacle out of anyone who was too self-centered to realized the severity of the situation.

kenny olav

aNiMaL wrote:

If I were you, I would have gone off on what a piece of shit your assistant manager is...no matter what the consequence was.

he's not well-liked. he'll get his due.

MrBrian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyh3egPw7uY&NR=1

It's like watching a Discovery channel show about hungry animals all going for the same piece of meat....!

Some vids from 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehSkxg7wvyk&NR=1