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 By John |
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At a Wal*Mart on Long Island on Black Friday, a worker trying to open the doors was swamped, crushed, and killed by a mob of about 500 people at 5 in the morning. As paramedics came to try to help the man, people kept passing him as if he didn’t exist. In less than four weeks, the Christmas shopping season comes to a close. A total of 26 official shopping days for you to go to the store and try to buy whatever it is you can for your loved ones. Or at least your liked ones. But not for that guy’s family.
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It’s fucking sick. I heard about that also, and people actually got angry when they tried to close down the store because this guy died. I hope all of the US dies in a fire.
My question is , why wasn’t there people in those lines with a piece of paper saying who’s going in when? Like when all huge sales/new product sales happen?
I really do hope walmart and those people (who were there until the guy left with the paramedics) ALL get charged with something. A person’s life is more important then saving a couple cents off towel paper.
This is why I don’t do day after holiday shopping.
Although I haven’t heard much about this (wrong side of the pond) as soon as I did, I couldn’t believe it!
What drives people to kill a person over saving money?! It’s shocking, and sad. :/
Yeah, this is a somewhat baffling situation. I have a hard time imagining a situation where getting a knick-knack for Aunt Petunia would overwhelm my senses to the point that I didn’t realize I was stepping on a human being.
Of course, once you have 400 people behind you pushing, it is a little hard to stop and help somebody. There is some level of crowd control necessary at this sort of event and, clearly, Walmart wasn’t prepared.
The bystander effect is truly horrible. I’ve heard of several incidents like the one you wrote about where there were many people who could have helped and nobody did anything.
And the shopping hysteria is fucking crazy.
That is awful, I cried when I read that. I loathe Wal-mart with a passion, and this does not help my feelings towards it. I guess it wasn’t the corporation’s fault, but then again the people who trampled that guy were attracted to the store for one reason or another. It’s absolutely disgusting, both humanity and wal-mart.
I do my shopping on Monday or Tuesday mornings. Wal-mart is open 24 hours during holiday season anyway, why don’t people just go at 4 AM? Oh yeah, people are cheap, lazy morons, that’s why.
I saw this on CNN and was totally disgusted. *sigh…
I don’t live too far from where it happened, and I couldn’t believe that something like this could occur. No one’s life is worth anything at Walmart, and the fact that so many people just continued to shop as if nothing happened disgusted me thoroughly. It shows exactly what kind of mindset the American people have…