"They're savages," said shopper Kimberly Cribbs, 27. "It's sad. It's terrible."
Obviously the remarks of a Obama hating racist...
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 have to agree with the kids here. It WAS their stuff if it was given to them. Parents have no right to give away things that don’t belong to them. Instead of the parents stealing, they should have asked the kids to sit down and pick out 5 things to give away. Then repeat that again every 2 weeks. When parents simply take things that don’t belong to them, it makes the kids more selfish, not less. This was very bad parenting.”
Are you kidding me? You must be. If I buy my kids something, I have a right to take it away whether it be due to behavioral issues or non use issues. Its my house, not my childrens.
Good for you.
We just put the kibash on a “friendship” our 10yo has had with another 10yo down the road. We finally realized it was damaging our child and doing nothing in the way of good for the other child. The girls still see and speak with each other as they ride the same bus, are in the same grade, in the same GS troop, and same Sunday school, but they no longer are at each others’ house and the other mom is no longer speaking to me.
They were taught a lesson. You don’t use it anymore, so it’s needs to go.
You’d be safer standing in front of a herd of stampeding water buffalo than a crowd of overexcited Wal-Mart shoppers.
Sometimes we have to that.
(How are ya Lady?)
"They're savages," said shopper Kimberly Cribbs, 27. "It's sad. It's terrible."
Obviously the remarks of a Obama hating racist...
I like to save a buck, but I choose to do it with dignity.
Yes, I imagine that is true. The crush from behind. But if someone was screaming, you’d think the people would all get the message.
Oh and one more thing.... people should not be pushing to begin with.
A way to stop these tragedies would be to give out numbers to people waiting in the lines and make them come in one at a time. Ridiculous I know, but what price is a life?
It wasn’t an easy decision and it wasn’t pretty at first, but we have seen a marked difference in our daughter in the past 4 weeks (the entire situation blew up Halloween weekend.)
There have been a few awkward moments for me at Church over it, as both families are parishioners, but I’m a big girl and I can deal with it.
Hope you and yours had a lovely Thanksgiving.
>>Hope you and yours had a lovely Thanksgiving.<<
You too!
We’re seeing “Bolt” in 3-D today.
And announce ahead of time that the merchandise is NOT on the floor.
Office Depot did this and it ran very smoothly. The first five people were let in. Each went to a register, stated what he/she wanted, stock person retrieved it from the back, purchased it then out of the store.
It was great.
Oh how fun!
The one disadvantage of living in the middle of nowhere is no such thing as first run movies, unless we wish to drive for an hour to a mall. Thanks, but no thanks.
The last time I sat in a movie theater to see a movie was for ET. The 10yo I took is now a 36yo father of 3, 2 of which are older than my own 10yo :)
My granddaughter is 7. She’s upset with me today. She wants to come over but she was sassing her mother, in front of me, yesterday. I’m not putting up with it.
Thanksgiving tradition to see one movie.
We even got Dad to go.
That’s a miracle!
Our weekends are horrible here. I like to shop after midnight. Not as many school age kids out! I just have to negotiate around the stockers.
ROFL!
Dad does the movie going in this house, it has become mom’s evening of peace during Christmas vacation!
I’ve been in some really frightening mobs at concerts also. I actually chipped a vertebrae in my neck at one. But the worst was the free Smashing Pumpkins show in downtown Minneapolis - almost 100,000 people showed up. I had a panic attack and was practically swimming through the crowd to get out of there. Have avoided crowds ever since.
I don’t blame you one bit. I’ve talked to other people who like to grocery shop late at night too for the same reason.
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