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 employee, a temporary maintenance worker, 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.
"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back."
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Am I sick for thinking this was kind of funny? cause I watch too many cartoons and I think I've seen this scenario before...it was kinda like deja vu.
I laughed when I heard it then I sat down and started to cry, mostly cuz I sat right on my balls, any of you ever do that?
what item in walmart would make someone trample over another human being and kill them. i meen the prices are already lower than they can possibly go at walmart.
okay...
so i get it, it's "funny and cool" to make fun of things like this.
and it definately makes people sound "tough" to laugh at a person, who was TEMPORARILY hired SPECIFICALLY for this event (season), to work because of the bullshit consumerism frenzy "black friday" and for him to be trampled to death, right?
this is fucked on so many levels.
first, a multi-billion dollar company like wal-mart, or at least this particular store, sends a temporary seasonal worker to open the doors on black friday?
i understand, that SOMEBODY must open the doors eventually. but these companies and others have been making fucking commercials joking at the stampedes on black friday when the doors are open.
i can recall incidents were people have been hurt/trampled, beat down, shot, stabbed, shot at, ran over by cars etc. for as long as i can remember things like this have been happening on "black friday" by people who are competing to get their hands on the last of the latest new craze, in consumer culture coolness.
(i even recall one year a bunch of old ladies fighting over fucking beanie babies.)
a company like walmart can't make the effort to ensure the safety of the person opening the fucking doors after all these years?
also, i understand that it's not ALL walmarts fault. people are just fucked up, and uncompassionate and ultimately greedy!
is it really worth the life of a human being to save a few extra bucks on some bullshit item? that's just going to become last years model?
i'm no saint, and i consume. but i'm not a piece of shit, and i have respect for those around me. i'm not about to put somebody in danger to save a couple bucks.
and i'm sure as fuck, not going to laugh about somebody who is just trying to work, in midst of this fucked up economy "crisis" to pay some fucking bills, getting murdered, yes murdered in front of hundreds (or as i've read around 2,000) of people who just stepped over and on him who just kept on shopping like nothing happened.. as if it couldn't get any worse, the people who WERE trying to help him, were also over and trampled by people STILL trying to save a buck.
then people got upset when walmart closed early because a worker was killed, because "they waited in line?"
america, greatest country in the world right? even with the economy being as shitty as it is, americans are still herding out like sheep to save a buck on consumer products that define their miserable lives.
wow, the only country where you can kill somebody and get away with it, as long as it's for a good reason like lower prices at walmart.
the shit's not funny.
think about the 34 year old mans family, who will be planning a fucking funeral instead of enjoying the "holidays", while you sit around and play your fucking playstations, or xboxes wii's or what ever is cool these days.
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