Posted on 11/29/2008 5:27:02 AM PST by ETL
NEW YORK – Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down.
Criminal charges were possible, but identifying individual shoppers in Friday's video may prove difficult, said Detective Lt. Michael Fleming, a Nassau County police spokesman.
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A mob of one old lady in a long dress and a teenaged girl. Maybe we could have drawn in two other customers who wanted buttermilk and a few bored cashiers :-).
Well hubby actually went into WM this morning. Was told by a guy we know who works there that more folks came in early this morning than did yesterday morning.
You can’t be serious. We must act like Al Sharpton to defeat Al Sharpton? What nonsense.
This sounds more like what the employees at that store decided to do. However Wal-Mart should have a lot of armed security guards present and highly visible.
Ours is open 24 hours, so there wouldn’t have been any backup of bargain hunters even if a lot of people arrived at the official start time of some featured sale.
Ours isn’t open 24 hours, which probably explains why there were no problems. There are a couple of 24 hour ones about 30 miles in either direction, and I imagine both of those were mobbed yesterday.
I’ve been to both of those stores and they are nice stores, but always crowded. I’ll stick with the one nearest me.
True, this does happen. But I couldn’t have gone on shopping unless I hadn’t seen or heard what happened. And today, having seen the news, I would be nearly hysterical with grief. But we’re not seeing that.
What a progressive nation in which we live. (Do I really need /sarc?)
I suggested yesterday that for the first time in history we may actually see Wal-Mart closing down many of their stores in these areas.
I love buttermilk for biscuits (as all good southern women should) but can’t tolerate it to drink. So I rejoiced when I found powdered buttermilk at Kroger! ;-)
I commented about what had happened to the lady working in the toy aisle. She hadn’t heard and looked positively ill.
Convictions will be impossible due to the weakness of proving intent to commit a crime.
Besides, they are 100% Obama voters, and hence immune from prosecution.
Hey, they look like they are a large part of the “entitlement” crowd. 0 is sure to give them a pass, even if they were to be identified.
Embarrassed to say Bon Jovi and Skid Row.
We bought the buttermilk to make pancakes. I should look for powdered, though: that way it would be available if we wanted it without a search. (Not that it was a big deal to go to Food Lion, and they gave me several free cookies :-).
Not to be sarcastic, but wondering how many are getting welfare. Pretty disusting behavior.
I made blueberry pancakes the other day. yummmmmmmmmm
Er, it WAS Friday morning.
It appears it was just a typo. Should have been 'Thursday'. Here is the same piece from ABC News:
"A Wal-Mart worker was killed Friday when "out-of-control" shoppers desperate for bargains broke down the doors at a 5 a.m. sale. Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers shouted angrily and kept shopping when store officials said they were closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.
At least four other people, including a woman who was 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.
Shoppers stepped over the man on the ground and streamed into the store. When told to leave, they complained that they had been in line since Thursday morning.
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