Man Trampled to death at a Long Island Wal-Mart

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28 Nov 2008, 1:13 pm

Here is a good reason to sleep in on "Black Friday" and avoid the crowds...

Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

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Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

BY JOE GOULD
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Updated Friday, November 28th 2008, 12:31 PM

Police tape surrounds a Wal-Mart that was the scene of a deadly stampede.
A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.

The 34-year-old 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.

Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him......

This is not very far from where I was living in Elmont...
I used to shop at nearby Green Acres Mall...

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28 Nov 2008, 1:24 pm

That's harsh. He didn't even die in a manner that could get someone arrested, either. They say society is three meals away from anarchy, but I guess even Black Friday is enough to start anarchy.

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28 Nov 2008, 1:28 pm

Wow, it isn't even people in a blind panic. It is just a bunch of dumb ass people who can't even take their time to go shopping. They just ignored him and walked all over him, literally.

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28 Nov 2008, 1:30 pm

Wal-Mart is evil. Ban them all.

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28 Nov 2008, 1:40 pm

A typical day at Wallymart, killed by a stampeding herd of fat women.

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28 Nov 2008, 4:33 pm

Yet another reason to reject consumerism... :roll:

This society we live in is insane.

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28 Nov 2008, 4:42 pm

Wow. I thought that overspending to the point where you were in debt was irrational, it would seem it's not even safe to work as a store clerk anymore. I thought it was only wild animals that ran in stampedes....

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28 Nov 2008, 5:59 pm

All for a cheap deal??? This society has become way way way to Materialistic. This is sick. All of those people twho were there should be jailed. They Killed a man.

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28 Nov 2008, 7:15 pm

This is why I stay away from stores on Black Friday. There was a near fist fight 2 years ago over a parking space at the shopping center in my neighborhood where there's a Sears and a Circut City. :roll: When I worked in retail, I was lucky in that I worked during the closing shift after the craziness had diminished.

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28 Nov 2008, 7:39 pm

Shame this wasn't "Jingle All the Way" or else the man would have lived and no one would have been hurt.

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28 Nov 2008, 10:24 pm

Here is the new york times article on it http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/busin ... f=business. If anyone wanted a brief summary on the topic of "what's wrong with America," this would pretty much cover it.

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28 Nov 2008, 11:12 pm

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I thought it was only wild animals that ran in stampedes....

Shoppers on Black Friday are just that unfortunately.. wild animals. One of the wildest stories I have heard all year. Sheesh...

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28 Nov 2008, 11:16 pm

Canadians can be pretty materialistic, but we are never like that! Wow.

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28 Nov 2008, 11:53 pm

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"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, 'I've been on line since Friday morning!'" Cribbs said. "They kept shopping."

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29 Nov 2008, 3:51 am

Why I avoid crowds and people.

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29 Nov 2008, 4:01 am

Another sacrifice to the altar of consumerism......

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