Wal-Mart Worker Dies in New York ‘Black Friday’ Store Stampede

wizzy

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aONUrd.8_0yw&refer=home

krabby5

People are phuckin' crazy..

Tell you want..I would give them the money they saved buying their $30 dvd players if they promise not to reproduce.

zingo

That's just sick.

danger boy

Wow, it's not just some urban legend... people really do kill other people for shopping deals.

That is sad.. that someone died being trampled by greedy shoppers the day after Thanksgiving and before Christmas. Some poor kid now may not have a daddy anymore because of it. I hope those shoppers feel guilt for the rest of their lives. :mad:

If i was the manager at one of them stores. I'd give tazers to everyone of my employees and have them use them on anyone in the crowd that is even slightly pushy or running.

Trampled to death by greedy shoppers. what a way to go. Man that puts a big damper on what should be a joyus time of the year.

snow

danger boy wrote: »

If i was the manager at one of them stores. I'd give tazers to everyone of my employees and have them use them on anyone in the crowd that is even slightly pushy or running.

Lmaooo. Remind me never to go to your store if you become a manager I think your going to need extra employees and tazers everybodys at least slightly pushy and or running

It's a shame that anyone has to die on there job due to greed and madness, personally I think Wallyworld should be held responsible for there part in this. They knew from past experience the types of crowds and behavior these types of sales create.



REGARDS SNOW

George Grand

Stomped to death at a min wage job over Chinese electronics. A stain on New York that I thought I'd never see.

m00npie

Pathetic.... how the person died and the people that killed him. You would need more than tasers to control that crowd in Valley Stream.

ohskigod

danger boy wrote: »

I hope those shoppers feel guilt for the rest of their lives. :mad:

hold out all the hope that they feel guilty to your hearts content.......but trust me, they'll sleep like babies tonight. seen mob mentality close enough to know that for a fact .

jflail2

And the kicker was, as he lay dying with medical personell working on him, MORONS were still streaming into the store like nothing was going on. How about some respect for the guy and the people working on him, and STAY THE FACK OUT OF THE WAY.

I hope they all feel great about their stupendous deals, since the cost was the price of the item AND some kid's life.......Sad.

danger boy

snow wrote: »

Lmaooo. Remind me never to go to your store if you become a manager I think your going to need extra employees and tazers everybodys at least slightly pushy and or running REGARDS SNOW

forget the slogan, "Always Low prices, always" mine would be "My fingers on my tazer trigger, ALWAYS!!" or "Hope you can run faster than my tazer can"

snow

Perhaps it's time to install cattle type chutes or some similar design device/s to ensure one person gets through at a time then when 20 people have gotten through wait 60 seconds and let another 20 through repeat until there all in. There has to be a way to do this in a somewhat safe manner. All I know is that if the store managers and the corporations were held criminally and civily responsible for what occured in there stores the odds of this type of thing happening twice would go way down.



REGARDS SNOW

zombie boy 2000

That is so unbelievably pathetic..... Happiness in the form of a commodity. I'll be sure to kill a hampster every time I clip a coupon.

engtaz

That's the worst part about the "all about me society".

engtaz

Face

Nothing surprises me in that neighborhood.

ben62670

zombie boy 2000 wrote: »

That is so unbelievably pathetic..... Happiness in the form of a commodity...

The sad thing is its mostly shallow women doing this crap. Me Me Me. I leave the hamsters to ZB, but I think I will punt a chicken:mad:

shawn474

What a sad commenatry on society...........the saddest thing is that they all probably got on their cell phones as they were leaving the store to tell everyone they knew how great of a deal they got; not even mentioning the poor soul that was getting trampled on their way to get it. This kind of stuff makes me ill; a family losing a son, possibly a father, uncle, etc. who is working during the holiday season over some materialistic f&ckwads too ignorant to know what the season is really about.

treitz3

What a damn shame. Unbelievable, the greed of some people. My thoughts and prayers go out to the Wal-Mart worker, his family and friends. What a very sad reflection of American behavior to relay to the world.

bobman1235

And now, a shootout in a California Toys R Us.

http://www.kesq.com/global/story.asp?s=9427148

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/11/shots-were-fire.html

thebluemonkey

I went to office depot and arived there at 5am and was the tenth person in line to get a laptop i wanted

mantis

It's sick. people are horrible. I stayed home today. I didn't even leave the house. I don't need to be apart of that kind of madness. If I saw that I would freak out.

**** **** people man,

Dan

Norm Apter

Yeah, this has to be one of the saddest stories to be made publicly known in recent times, for two reasons. Obviously, the more immediate one is the senseless and tragic dealth of an individual, and the pain his family and loved ones must be feeling.

Second, as others have indicated this is a sad reflection on what our consumer culture has bred. It may seem trite to bemoan the ill effects of the commercialization of the holidays -- a time for family and feeling grateful for what we have not what we desire to have -- in the U.S. Movies going back to Miracle on 34th Street (?) and Its a Wonderful Life have been critiquing holiday commercialization for over 60 years.

While this may be a rare or even isolated incident, it seems to have much deeper ramifications.

Holiday consumer mayhem, as objectionable as it has been in the past, seems to have gone way off kilter in recent years, where the buying even trumps the holiday itself. I was away (out of the U.S.) from spring 2003 to fall 2006. I had never heard of Black Friday until after I returned to the U.S. in 2006. Is this a long tradition? Maybe it existed prior to 2003 but I swear I had never heard of it.

Even in just the past 3 years, I've noticed a creeping pattern which is nearly as unsettling in its implications as the fact that someone was actually trampled to death by an unruly crowd that literally broke down the doors that kept them from the goods they desired. The opening times seem to be getting closer and closer to the Thanksgiving holiday itself, some opening at midnight and some even open on Thanksgiving. Whats next? Will we forgo the Turkey meal, the time with friends and family, the quietness of the holiday in order to be the first one to get in the door to get that special deal?

Listen...I'm all for getting a good deal when I can. But these goods are for the most part luxury items; its not like its starving people busting down the doors for bread or sustenance. One must prioritize.

We may think we're getting the deal, but in retrospect, I think we (the collective "we") might be the ones who are being taken for a ride. Black Friday sales -- getting us out to the stores by low price baiting -- both takes away from the important things and have created this set of expectations among many consumers. This is the way things SHOULD be, in their minds. And with that kind of power, stores/retailers can just keep moving the (opening) time up, to where the holiday for some will take on no extra significance than an opportunity for super deals.

I'm not criticizing anyone who goes looking for the deals. All I'm saying is that the question every person has to ask though is: Is it worth it?

My two cents...

Norm

danger boy

Norm Apter wrote: »

All I'm saying is that the question every person has to ask though is: Is it worth it? Norm

not if it means someone losing their life over a bargain.

treitz3

First off I don't know whether it's true or not but I just heard on the news that the people who killed this man, all they had to do was purchase their item online. There is also already talk that Wal-Mart is going to be sued over this. Wal-Mart gave "the greedy" the option to be a part of the mayhem or to just simply purchase online. If that's the case then it's real simple......

.......make Black Friday sales internet based only. That way the greedy only murder their own family members trying to get to their computer meanwhile helping the rest of society weed out..........well, you get the idea.

danger boy

I like that idea.. all black Friday sales are only available online.. if you don't have a computer or internet you're effed.. but that's how it goes. it's really the only safe way to avoid this from happening again.

I just think that what if it had been my sister or nephew that had been killed in such a senseless way.. i'd be beside myself in anger.. and hell yeah... Wal Mart better get their lawyers working on it ASAP.

fossy

guessing another lawsuit........no disrespect meant

Polk user

If I was the store manager I would have closed the store immediately. I could not care if corporate headquarters gets pissed.

NotaSuv

Macys in NYC was wall to wall crazy women..........but it was a great day to see a movie in NYC...Regal on 42nd was maybe 1/8 full for the new Bond film which we really enjoyed...lots of action in this one compared to the last one....we did 90% of our shopping online............

shack

We need to quit blaming the system. Commercialization of the season, Wal-Mart, greed, black Friday, limit to internet, etc, etc, etc, was not the reason this man was killed. He was killed because a bunch of human beings had NO REGARD for another human life. I called them human beings...but in reality they were no more than a herd of mindless aninmals. Things like this and the sensless mass murders by another group of animals in Mumbai make me sad that I'm even part of the human race sometimes. I'm beginning to think that a bad economy is the least of our problems...the lack of basic human decency may be our biggest hurdle for survival. Too many **** up people on this planet. :mad:

disneyjoe7

treitz3 wrote: »

First off I don't know whether it's true or not but I just heard on the news that the people who killed this man, all they had to do was purchase their item online. There is also already talk that Wal-Mart is going to be sued over this. Wal-Mart gave "the greedy" the option to be a part of the mayhem or to just simply purchase online. If that's the case then it's real simple......

First off that is a shame.


Now let's say Walmart put in an electronic door lock system so employees didn't need to manually unlock doors. Could they be sued if people trampled other shoppers getting to the hot sale item?

Sure they could. They provided a situation in which this could of happen a idea X at a super low price, a no win situation IMHO.

treitz3

I hear you man but apparently they provided the alternative of purchasing the same items online for the same price. The greedy were responsible for a death today, not Wally World IMO.

disneyjoe7

It's possible that those shoppers are not able to get on-line?