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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>He died with his Wal-Mart stock boy jacket on.
So, management will call him a model employee?
Black Friday is the dumbest think since democrat control of 2/3 of our government...
Tis the season.
Return Christmas to it’s rightfull place and people might at least try to be more considerate.
Found it on Drudge. Link works there
well at least for me...
The link doesn’t work; I just get “page error”.
And can’t find the story on Google News.
Help!
Circuit City was giving numbers to the crowd. You got there, you got a number, you went back to your car. No crush, no fights, no broken merchandise, no stealing from other’s carts.
I went to Office Depot. NO merchandise was on the floor. You got into a line, they called you to your register, you asked for your item, a worker got it from the back room, you paid and you walked out.
When I did do Walmart a few years ago, I was at the back of the line and when the doors opened, people rushed in from cars. They handle things badly.
that’s what happens in times of economic peril.
folks don’t have money so they stampede their way into wal-marts!
/j
This Wal-Mart is mostly located in tha hood!
Drudge has a link that works
My brother's oldest son has two sons. Those kids have everything. They do not walk into a store that they are not wanting the latest toy, video game, whatever. I have told my brother and sister in law that those two kids have so much stuff they do not know what they have. You name it, they have it. Play with it a week or so and bam, it is in a box, in a closet, in the room downstairs. Recently my sister in law filled up six large boxes of stuff that they no longer played with. She took it down stairs in their house and told them she was giving it to the Salvation Army. The kids went nuts. YOU CANNOT GIVE AWAY OUR STUFF!!! When asked the last time they played with it, they could not remember. They had even forgotten about some of the stuff that she had boxed up. She took it away and you would have thought the world ended. Oh, well until the next day, when her daughter in law took them to Toys R Us and bought them over $100 worth of crap.
Acorn Crush?
Damn. Not a good way to go. RIP.
This is funny to you?
Mob psychology — scary stuff.
I’ll bet they name an elementary school after him.
Yep. He died helping to save the economy.
Valley Stream is in Nassau County and just outside of NYC (Queens). There was nothing much to Valley Stream when that shopping center went in some fifty years ago. Now it has grown as the area population has. It is the local shopping area and had become rather crowded the last time I was there, some years ago.
Yup. That's the ticket. Forget the hundreds of others behind those that "touched him" responsible for shoving those that "touched him" into and over "him."
It's a sad state of affairs when people are herded like cattle into a building that is incapable of handling the large numbers. It's even sadder, in my opinion, when liberals and the media do everything in their power to destroy a company like Wal-Mart. They'll use this tragedy for as long as they can to try to damage Wal-Mart. One thing's for sure. I'll wager we've seen the last of "Black Friday" sales at Wal-Mart. I'll bet that will make liberals happy. :-{
Thanks; made it to the article.
How very sad.
Who says you need to crash-land a plane-load of young boys to get
“Lord of The Flies”?
Thanks for having posted this.
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