Sought: Wal-Mart shoppers who trampled NY worker

AP via Yahoo News ^ | Nov 29 , 2008 | COLLEEN LONG

[IbJensen]

America the beautiful.

[CGASMIA68]

They trashed the doors.....Cant keep em out how ya gonna keep em in

[Tax-chick]

I was just confirming it and adding the grim fact that the worker died that same morning.

It's chilling to know that people who would do this - and then just walk away - live in our country. I have a very sheltered life and usually don't think about things like this.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

You’re right. We’re never gonna win this one, LOL!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Zero’s fault.

[foolscap]

Why the heck did Wal-Mart have their employees form a human chain? They know there are stampedes like this almost every year at different stores. The shoppers are guilty but the store is also part of the problem for putting their employees at risk.

[ETL]

After they were all in the store, they should’ve sealed the doors and left a faucet running.

They weren't ALL animals. I'm sure there were lots of decent people in the crowd as well.

[P8riot]

They can start by tracking down the holders of all of the credit cards that were processed for purchases during the first couple of hours after the murder. They won’t get everyone, and they may get some “innocents”, but hey, it was a mob, and if you are part of a mob then you are complicit with their behavior.

[stuartcr]

What does any of it have to do with the election? You could just as easily say that ‘I bet a lot of them go to church on Sunday’, and it would make just as little sense.

[Dallas59]

This is the reason I go shopping at WM at 3 in the morning. The only thing I have to worry about are the pallets and forklifts. The stockers are friendly and I have help at the drop of a hat.

[stuartcr]

Why is that?

[NonValueAdded]

They could probably pull the store's credit and debit card receipts and attempt to match names to faces that way but it will be fruitless in the end. The defense will be that the hundreds of people behind were pushing and any one person in the crowd was helpless to buck the flow. The only way any of them would face justice is if the investigation turned up an outstanding warrant or questionable immigration status.

No, the only thing that could have been done is to get on the PA and announce that the store was closed, there would be no checkout, and that the riot squad was outside to deal with any shoplifters or looters.

[ETL]

Why the heck did Wal-Mart have their employees form a human chain? They know there are stampedes like this almost every year at different stores.

Could you imagine if the worker had been Black instead of Indian, and the crowd something other than Black? You would have had 'Fat Al' Sharpton out there protesting that same morning (as soon as he finished off the last of the leftover Thanksgiving Turkey).

[bricklayer]

“A grain of salt in an ocean of water does not make it salty”

A grain of salt in an ocean of pepper...if ya folla me.

[i_dont_chat]

Please, let’s stop calling these people Thanksgiving shoppers. Have you seen the photos?

They WERE NOT shopping. They are thugs with the gang/mob mentality — that they wanted what they wanted — regardless of what damage or injury they did.

They are subhuman and thugs and criminals of the worse order.

[QQQQ]

Looking at the pictures posted above,this group don’t have much to spend.

[Twinkie]

A good guess would be “98% Obama Followers”.

This is so stupid, but this sort of thing keeps on happening. Walmart needs to change its tack. All about the almighty dollar and nothing else.

I bowed out of the commercial side of Christmas a long time ago and nothing Walmart’s got is worth such a thing as this disgusting episode.