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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To many, if the time reads “AM”, then it’s morning. He might have meant that he was on line since shortly after midnight.
I think she could have had some sense that being in front of a Walmart, pregnant, at the opening of “Black Friday” (all of our Fridays will be black until at least 2013) was not the place to be: still, it was not her fault that there were those who were selfish and dangerous in their behavior. Hope the mother and “viable tissue mass” are doing well. Maybe next time: go online.
Then who the heck is left to shop there? That's their entire shopper base.
Now THAT's funny...in a black humor sort of way. :)
DANG, the economy must be bad, if people are killing each other to get in the door. /sac
“Witness Kimberly Cribbs said shoppers acted like “savages.” “
Hmmmmm.......I think Obama would call that racist.
They all figure they have more disposable income this year,they think beginning January 20th the chosen one will be paying for their gas and their mortgages.
Black Friday sales are not an invention of WalMart. They opened a little later than some stores, earlier than some others.
I fail to understand your reasoning that WalMart is at fault for "having that type of sale". If this had happened at Kohl's (who opened at 4am this year) would you feel the same way about negligence?
See post #67
I shop there, and I'm a middle-class professional. The suburban Walmart that I shop at has a primarily white/suburban customer base.
Exactly. This could have been prevented if the management would have better organized the event by having more security guards, to keep the lines in order and by tickets out for certain limited items.
Standing around in the cold for hours while pregnant is not my idea of a good time, no matter what the purpose. I’m still wondering what all those people wanted so badly. Maybe it’s just a ritual, to wait in line for a store to open, and they don’t really calculate whether they’re actually going to buy anything at a terrific discount.
I went to my Wal-mart at 10:00 a.m. for groceries, and there weren’t a lot of people there.
After this stampede of animals turns to death, they opened this store hours later. Business as usual. :(
Good luck identifying them. And aint none of em is gonna talk to the man.
The only way to prevent this from happening is to prevent the crowd from massing in front of an exit or entry, the correct crowd control strategy is to funnel the crowd between barriers until it is reduced down to single lines of individuals. This is not a perfect strategy, but if the "funnel" is long enough it's quite effective.
Any venue which routinely experiences crowds seeking entry (for example sporting and entertainment events) has a security staff and procedures in place to deal with this even if the crowds are impatient or unruly, the problem here is either the crowd was unanticipated or that the venue was unfamiliar with crowd control.
I saw that. It was a nice try . . . I found it humorous also.
Several years ago when I lived in Richmond, VA, one of the local school systems decided to replace their Apple laptops and sell all the old ones for $50 each. The demand was so high they had to move the sale from a county surplus warehouse to the Richmond International Raceway complex (which is also the Virginia State Fairgrounds).
On the morning of the sale, there were literally *thousands* of people out there to buy several hundred $50 laptops. When they finally opened the gates, there was a stampede in which several people were injured, old women with walkers were thrown down on the ground, children were trampled, the whole bit. All this for four-year-old laptops, most of which had problems of some sort, shot batteries, broken keys, etc., and many required hundreds of dollars of additional accessories. My wife almost got caught in that stampede, but thankfully, after seeing the crowds and the two-mile traffic jam to get in, she turned around and came home.
And the makeup of the crowd was very similar to what’s in the pictures in post #3.
}:-)4
The problem is that the people who knocked him down may not have really been to blame.
Anyone who has ever been at a concert where there was a stage rush knows that it’s the people behind the ones in front that cause the problem. I was at a show in 1989 where a girl fell in front of me and it was only good luck for her that she didn’t get trampled.
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