Wal-Mart worker dies-shoppers Killed him
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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
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
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the human race is pathetic...Hello, I love you. Won't you tell me your name?0
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I don't even know what to say to this. Somewhere along the line, this country and the people in it went horribly wrong...she was underwhelmed, if that's a word0
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"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.Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/20140 -
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.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...
http://www.polyp.org.uk/cartoons/consumerism/polyp_cartoon_Rat_Race.jpgThoughts_Arrive wrote:The song could not be more true.0 -
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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.Happiness is only real when shared0 -
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.Chicago 2000 : Chicago 2003 : Chicago 2006 : Summerfest 2006 : Lollapalooza 2007 : Chicago 2009 : Noblesville (Indy) 2010 : PJ20 (East Troy) 2011 : Wrigley Field 2013 : Milwaukee (Yield) 2014 : Wrigley Field 20160
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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.0 -
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A child's rhyme stuck in my head...
It said "Life is nothing but a dream."
I've spent so many years in question
To find I'd known this all along.0 -
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...2000-10-28 San Bernardino
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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.
I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.0 -
so you would have prefered the child died too? WTF?pateljam wrote:Yeah so the baby can be a black friday shopper on his/her own in 18-20 years..._____________________________________SIGNATURE________________________________________________
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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
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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 likelypateljam 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
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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.0 -
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.
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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
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did you hear the one about the pregnant walmart worker who miscarried because of the madness on black friday??
even more unreal...
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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 out0
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