As if I didn't need another yet another reason NEVER to go to Wal Mart"
A Wal-Mart worker has died after being trampled by a throng of shoppers shortly after a store opened Friday on Long Island in New York State, police said.
Frenzied shoppers desperate for bargains broke down the doors at a 5 a.m. sale. Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers shouted angrily and kept shopping when store officials said they were closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.
At least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries, and the store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening.
Shoppers stepped over the man on the ground and streamed into the store. When told to leave, some complained that they had been in line since Thursday morning.
2 comments:
Oh, common lad. Your Scottish heritage will inevitably lead you to Walmart (i.e., unless you've been lured into Costco!).
BTW it doesn't look like Toys 'R Us is a much safer place to be.
There was a brief scene of a mall being opened on black Friday in an episode of Life (the best cop show ever) recently; but the dead guy was already that way before the mall opened. Complete madness.
Once it was found workers were being trampled the doors should have been locked from the outside and the army should have been given clearance to fire on every single shopper there.
When you hear of this type of event it makes you think our species really does deserve to be the shortest lived hominids ever. I'm pretty sure there's a more than a few neanderthals still around.
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