Posted on 12/02/2008 1:43:54 PM PST by BGHater
Two customers are suing Wal-Mart for negligence after being injured in a mad rush for post-Thanksgiving bargains that left one store employee dead, the men's attorney said Tuesday.
Temporary Wal-Mart worker Jdimytai Damour, 34, was crushed to death as he and other employees attempted to unlock the doors of a store on Long Island at 5 a.m. Friday.
Attorney Kenneth Mollins said Fritz Mesadieu and Jonathan Mesadieu were "literally carried from their position outside the store" and are now "suffering from pain in their neck and their back from being caught in that surge of people" that rushed into the Wal-Mart.
New York Newsday reported that the Mesadieus are father and son, ages 51 and 19.
The lawsuit alleges that the Mesadieus' injuries were a result of "carelessness, recklessness, negligence."
In a claim against the Nassau County police department, the men also contend that they "sustained monetary losses as a result of health care and legal expenses ... in the sum of $2 million."
"This is a tragic situation that could have and should have been avoided with the exercise of reasonable care. There are very simple measures that could have been put in place to avoid this, such as barriers along the line to spread people out, extra security and a better police presence," Mollins said.
He said his clients and others who were at the scene contend that the police "were there ... saw what was happening, and they left."
Calls seeking comment from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. were not immediately returned.
Lt. Kevin Smith of the Nassau County Police Department said, "it's our policy that we don't comment on open litigations" and would not respond directly to Mollins and his clients' claim that officers left the scene.
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I didn’t see the pictures of the crowds, but based on the mentality displayed, you can bet it’s the wacko-left that would stampede for this type of event.
they should have done some crowd handling. they needed to put the perimeter back from the store. I live about 30 miles from where it happened. the stores directly near by me would NEVER have this happen because my neigborhood is not peopled by animals....
....the neighborhood where it happened IS peopled by animals.
WALMART through past experience with these dirt bags knew this kind of thing happened at this store. Hire enough security to make a perimeter or don’t have the sale at this store.....
Remember your judgment the next time you get on an elevator and others get on after you.
Conservatives are in favor of responsibity and accountability, right?
“Why not sue the idiots that crashed the doors?”
Yes! HELLO! They’re the pigs without the self control. It was their fault and nobody else’s.
Individual responsibility and accountability. Yes.
Soon to be an episode of one of the “Law and Order” shows or the like shows on the other networks....
Instead of opening the doors to a stampede, how about issuing numbers or something?
It's fortunate more weren't killed or injured.
Individual responsibility and accountability. Yes.
Individual responsibility stops when you are making corporate decisions?
The animals should be controlled at the crib stage, not at the WalMart stage.
Suing? They should be charged with manslaughter.
We’ll remind you of that when these animals or others like them come for the contents of your freezer, pantry and gun cabinet.
It means that, no matter what a corporation has done, it is not OK to stampede over a human.
Glad to hear it.
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