WalMart worker trampled to death, pregnant shopper miscarries

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Fighting Hellfish
Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
edited November 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
all this at 5:03 AM, as the worker tried to open the doors, and hold the crowd back

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-limart1129,0,167903.story
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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    holy shit, that is crazy.

    f'ing animals.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    While tragic, this is hardly surprising.
  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    That's the problem. It is not surprising. This Black Friday mob mentality caused by stores putting extremely low inventory items on sale to cause this behavior should be outlawed. OR at the very least they need to control how people are allowed in.

    Given numbers to check out with. One item each. Check out would take a while, but to open the doors with way too many slack jawed jack offs fighting for position is ridiculous.
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,802
    Its America baby...apparently material goods are worth more than people's lives,bunch of animals


    btw that mall sux
  • Fighting Hellfish
    Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
    this guy was 34, not some 80 year old greeter. people had been lined up since 10 PM Thursday to get things like $400 flat screen TV's
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Fighting Hellfish wrote:
    this guy was 34, not some 80 year old greeter. people had been lined up since 10 PM Thursday to get things like $400 flat screen TV's
    Saw that.
    I also like that they tried to close the store and no one would listen...
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,802
    Rygar wrote:
    Saw that.
    I also like that they tried to close the store and no one would listen...


    This mall has shootings,brawls,robberies all year long...its a dump
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    CROJAM95 wrote:
    This mall has shootings,brawls,robberies all year long...its a dump
    Quality!
  • timroth
    timroth Posts: 215
    Dare I say only in America where people are more concerned about getting a $400 flat screen them helping someone out of danger. This is horrible
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,802
    timroth wrote:
    Dare I say only in America where people are more concerned about getting a $400 flat screen them helping someone out of danger. This is horrible



    People should just stay home and log on, even if you spend a few extra bux to ship something, the deals are about the same
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    What a pathetic reality.

    This the lower 10% of society that has no clue who, or what the hell they are, or what anything else is around them.

    It's the mentality of an animal in a human form. A dog would be more intelligent, or about the same.
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    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
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  • Shawn Smith Collective
    Shawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    CROJAM95 wrote:
    This mall has shootings,brawls,robberies all year long...its a dump


    No, it doesn't. The vast majority of shoppers at this mall are black, which causes people all over Nassau County to form pre-conceptions about it. The mall is just as safe as Roosevelt Field or any other mall.

    As a matter of fact, it's Sunrise Mall in Massapequa that DOES have a track record of violent incidents throughout the year (and even then it's limited to only a few isolated incidents).

    Oh, I do want to add that when I got this email alert from Newsday, I was digusted. This is a horrible thing and, as others have said in this thread, unfortunately not surprising at this point. :( Even worse, the Newsday article opens with the report about this trampling and then goes into 2 and a half pages about the great bargains people are finding! Real nice.
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  • brainofPJ
    brainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    seriously, this is disgusting.

    it's not like someone pulled out a gun and shot the guy, which i'm sure happened somewhere....but more than one person stomped on the guy.


    Esther's here and she's sick?

    hi Esther, now we are all going to be sick, thanks
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    What a pathetic reality.

    This the lower 10% of society that has no clue who, or what the hell they are, or what anything else is around them.

    It's the mentality of an animal in a human form. A dog would be more intelligent, or about the same.
    Had there been someone in the crowd who saw and gave a shit and stopped to help, guess what would have happened to them...
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,802
    Shawn Smith Collective wrote:
    No, it doesn't. The vast majority of shoppers at this mall are black, which causes people all over Nassau County to form pre-conceptions about it. The mall is just as safe as Roosevelt Field or any other mall.

    As a matter of fact, it's Sunrise Mall in Massapequa that DOES have a track record of violent incidents throughout the year (and even then it's limited to only a few isolated incidents).



    are you kidding me...your right about sunrise


    a lady stabbed someone to death a few weeks ago,fights are rampant

    I'm going off fact, not tryin to play the race card

    You are what u are....this place is a shithole
  • mkcaps
    mkcaps Posts: 36
    I was just reading this elsewhere.
    What the hell is wrong with people to do this, then continue to shop??
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    disgusting

    look what greed does to people

    honestly, i cant think of anything that would get me out in a store on 'black friday'.
  • Fighting Hellfish
    Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
    Shawn Smith Collective wrote:
    No, it doesn't. The vast majority of shoppers at this mall are black, which causes people all over Nassau County to form pre-conceptions about it. The mall is just as safe as Roosevelt Field or any other mall.

    As a matter of fact, it's Sunrise Mall in Massapequa that DOES have a track record of violent incidents throughout the year (and even then it's limited to only a few isolated incidents).

    Oh, I do want to add that when I got this email alert from Newsday, I was digusted. This is a horrible thing and, as others have said in this thread, unfortunately not surprising at this point. :( Even worse, the Newsday article opens with the report about this trampling and then goes into 2 and a half pages about the great bargains people are finding! Real nice.


    maybe it's better today, but I know this mall used to be really bad. I remember a shooting in the movie theater on Christmas Day years ago, the day Godfather 3 came out. I live close to the former South Shore Mall (it's got a corporate name now) and that's no picnic either. A few years a go, a woman got stabbed because she had a red shirt on, some kid had to stab anyone in a red shirt to get into a gang. Then there's Smith Haven mall, Long Island's goth headquarters. I think I'd rather take my chances with the gangs
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Fucking moronic consumerist pigs.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    this should shock me


    it doesn't


    quite telling


    :(

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