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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I find this heartbreaking for that poor stocker. Just trying to make a buck and gets killed over a hunk of junk.
The woman that miscarried...sad....but what was she thinking going there? Everyone knows these Wal-Mart sales get rushed. The crowd mentality over crap that will break in about six months? Never mind I would be banned.
I remember trying to come home from Taste of Chicago on July 3rd one year (after the fireworks), and Union Station was packed to the gills with people waiting for outbound trains to come into the station so they could board. As we waited and waited, the mood got palpably ... not ugly, but tense. I expected someone’s toe to get stepped on and a fight to break out, and a stampede. The trains finally arrived, but that was the last time I went to Taste of Chicago. I don’t mind crowds, but the dynamic you talk about was very tangible. Never again.
I'm watching some guy at the register pay for his things and the cashier is counting out a whole bunch of $100 bills. No recession for him, I guess!
Today CNBC gave out the remarkable statistic that of the 45% of the consumer public shopping today, 85% of them are shopping for themselves.
These aren’t people buying gifts. These are people soothing their own greed.
Compassionate conservatism at its finest.
Blue state mob mentality.
Valley Stream has become populated with many former inner city people. The Nobama crowd. The nearby Green Acres mall has been a dump for years, and there was a murder right there in the mall not too long ago.
Huge lawsuits coming...HUGE.
The same people who rush the doors for free shit are the same people who vote Democrat and voted Obama...YOUBETCHA!
All about the free and handouts.
I watched that last night. I watched all of them. Kind of disturbing to have Tanya Harding preach to me about other people being criminals.
There is another factor, and that’s the “Ebay Factor” a lot of people want to buy the stuff at the cheap prices so that they can turn right around and sell them on Ebay at a profit.
I moved out into the country to get away from all that headache and my stress levels have dropped to nothing now.
Seeing people putting themselves into the poorhouse to keep up with the Jones’s, fighting the traffic and ratrace of the suburban life was just not worth it.
Sitting out in the middle of the woods when the biggest problems are keeping the coyotes from getting at your pets and plowing the driveway, that is the kind of stress I can deal with.
I haven’t stepped foot in a mall in about 8 years and the closest thing to a line is once in a blue moon going to see a new release at the cinema. Even in those crowds I feel out of place now. My kids hate it because their friends live in town closer to others, but some day they will appreciate it I think.
My sister got her leg all mangled during a stampede at a rock concert in L.A. years ago. The band was “The Police”. They just opened this little gate with hundreds of people lined up in a tight space, and all hell broke loose.
As I recall, she got a nice settlement once the lawyers got through with it.
It was Long Island.
Ditto. Mocking people’s deaths is always FR at its worst.
>>I have friends who have the “parents have no right to do that” attitude, and you should see how the children speak, and act towards their parents and other adults. Entitled. You nailed it. <<
We have a neighbor with that attitude. A calm mother who gave in to everything her little dumpling wanted and took verbal abuse from the kid in an unbelievable way.
One day, I told my girls to do something. She told her dumpling. My girls did it, her’s started screaming at her. I looked the kid in the face and said,
“I don’t care how you speak to your mother when we are not around but you will NOT speak to her that way in front of my children.”
The kid was shocked, the mother was shocked and the kid did as she was told without another word.
Within six months I put a major kabotch on the whole situation. We don’t speak anymore. Now the kids are 13 (hers) 11 and 9 (mine). Mine are great kids that do charity work, and are invited to places constantly (too many!)
Her’s is running the streets with heels, crop tops, make-up and a ton of older boys. Thank the Lord we got out of that situation.
>>My charity days are over except for donating to the NRA.<<
I’m finding myself feeling the same way.
We have a sister parish in Africa. They have no church building, say mass under a tree. They have a school/seminary with no water.
This year we have five advent projects at our parish. The “Giving Tree” (clothes and stuff that go to the needy), the “Shoebox Advent Project” to fill shoeboxes with school supplies and such for needy kids in Detroit, A soup kitchen in a northern city, sponsoring a seminarian in Slovakia and the African church.
We normally will grab a tag for the needy. Not this year. Anything in the states will be getting goodies from Obama. This year we are giving to the African Parish.
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