Ok what should we be calling these people? All across America stores had these exact same sales. This didn’t happen anywhere else. Why? Because of the people involved. In one of the first stories I read about this they said the savages were mad that Wal-Mart was going to close due to this death. Frankly I am getting tired of people defending these people.
Oh bull, I was about the only one defending the crowds, myself and one other. The rest of you were like the crowds you accused, viciously going for their jugular. Was it because it was a black crowd that you call them animals?
Get stuck in a crowd once and see what it’s like. I’ve had the experience, and it’s no fun. You get panicky, because you are being moved along by osmosis, no control over it. I feel sorry for the guy, and I think anyone who participated in breaking in the doors should be in trouble. Otherwise, frankly, it was bad karma, and the store is not at fault, the crowd was doing what crowds do, wait for the doors to open and then press forward. The problem is there was too large a crowd trying to squeeze in through the doors. If I were that particular store, having had this particular experience, I wouldn’t do anymore early bird specials.
And yes, it could have happened at some other unlucky store too with such a large crowd. What you are doing is condemning ever single person within that crowd as all being equally culpable and all being savage animals. Does not compute to any rational thinking person. My calculated guess is that there were plenty of people stuck in that press of a crowd who wish they weren’t being pushed along. But they were, and they couldn’t have stopped it, unless they too wanted to get trampled. If you want other examples of crowd momentum, just look to all the people who get trampled to death or asphixiated when making their pilgrimages to Mecca. Happens almost yearly. Just last year it happened when Shi’a pilgrims in Iraq got trampled when crossing over a bridge because they thought they were being attacked. It happens a lot. How many soccer fans have been trampled going into stadiums overseas? For whatever reason, you want to really go after this particular crowd, and I think it having happened in a black community store has something to do with it.
Sorry but you lose if you compare me to someone in that crowd. No need to read anything else you have to say. Have a nice day.
I said "animals" first (at least on this thread). I never made any reference to race. The "animal" analogy comes about because of exactly the type of behavior you've described repeatedly: the mob-like out-of-control surge of bodies. Think STAMPEDE.