Walmart worker trampled on Black Friday..

[ottorocket]

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Shop-Til-You-Drop----Literally-Chaos-at-the-Mall-.html?corder=&pg=1#T3azaMvchAYhX9thdLJEcPVdjr1yitLHlRzQscqfF_MMM zRf1uwQjQw_GmOKTLuCoYBb3F4JSQEAwMD

[Rochamerks21]

sums up the compulsive nature of America. Poor guy was just doing his job making that minimum wage to put food on the table and those greedy s.o.b's. couldnt wait a minute to save a few bucks on their tv or whatever. damn shame!

[ottorocket]

Its terrible people lose sight of whats important, and what isn't... Apparantly a few bucks off a microwave was more important to some than stepping over the body of a dying man during the holiday season.

[Rochamerks21]

like George Carlin said, the new American pastime is buyin' things. fuck baseball its shopping

[ottorocket]

^^Carlin is the best..god rest his pessimistic, brilliant soul

[BeardedOne]

I go to work in the wee hours and stop at a convenience store across from a Kohl's department store. At 2:00 AM the shopping addicts were already lining up in the freezing cold. Just after noon, I-95 and all the feeder roads to the mall and attached plazas were packed with slow-moving traffic.

RECESSION, PEOPLE! PAY YOUR =OLD= BILLS BEFORE FIRING UP THE NEW ONES!

Oh, and one more thing, try not to kill anyone while you shop, y'greedy, materialistic, bahstids.

[CORVETTEDUDE]

Nobody's making them pay the "Old Debt" first....therefore, according to the moron logic of the American consumer...they don't exist!

[GroobySteven]

Nobody's making them pay the "Old Debt" first....therefore, according to the moron logic of the American consumer...they don't exist!

Well put.

When I first saw this news I was expecting it to be a little old frail "granny or retarded" Walmart greeter but the body on the floor showed a pretty big guy (more a security guard blocker ... than a chaser). They had to be doing some pretty big stepping to get on top of that dude.

[Realgirls4me]

Well said, Corvette, and Bearded-One!

One would think -- WOULD THINK! -- that with the economy wading in waters it hasn't experienced in some 80 years, AND hearing or seeing firsthand fellow Americans losing their homes and jobs, that these idgits would show some restraint right now on their consumption, and maybe -- JUST MAYBE -- try to adopt a concept seemingly foreign to many Americans called SAVING(s) and restraint. The high gas prices of a few months ago bitch-slapped the majority of Americans to forcibly cut back on their driving, and now we are collectively seeing the benefit of economizing exhibited in the current price at the pump which is likely linked to lower overall demand. One would think that the anxiety that high gas prices brought literally in our collective rear view mirror right now, that people would take some pause today and say, "Fuck it! The economy might get a lot worse before it gets better. I better hold back. How bad do I really need that new TV or pair of designer shoes?". That isn't the case, though. It's, get in line mindless little robots and consume, consume, consume. Fuck that low wage temporary worker in our way, we are here to consume, consume, consume; whether we need the item(s) or not.

[Dinand]

Did they all want to buy a Turbo Man?

[Realgirls4me]

By the way, Otto ...

http://tinyurl.com/

Just for the margins' sake. :)

[hwbs]

i was going to work @ like 6 am and there were like hundreds upon hundreds of cars parked up in the wal mart by my house....these people are nuts....a $250 laptop is like u get what u pay for....look it up later on cnet and they tell u it is a great paper weight....fucking nutty people....

[Realgirls4me]

I agree, Hollywood. It is nothing but junk ... items other chains wouldn't dare carry. In day to day transactions, one generally does get what they pay for. This is what was on sale at that Wal*Mart and what contributed to this man's death:

"Items on sale at the store included a Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV for $798, a Bissel Compact Upright Vacuum for $28, a Samsung 10.2 megapixel digital camera for $69 and DVDs such as “The Incredible Hulk” for $9."

Yeah, a run-of-the-mill Samsung (not a Sony, Canon, or Nikon, etc) digital camera for $69 bucks ( I recently paid $49 for my Canon's battery) was worth a man's life, and also hurt those employees who tried to aid him? How many here are high on Samsung plasma TVs and digital cameras? Junk. Pure junk.

RIP, Jdimytai Damour

[Caramel]

I needed a replacement printer fast and went to the Walmart in Gainesville, FL near UF at 5am this morning. I figured $30 wasn't bad for an HP all-in-one and would never have paid usual $80 for it. It was actually 4:50 am when I got there and the line was about a quarter mile long. Everyone was calm and friendly and I was out of there in under an hour. But this is typical of Florida. I'm used to the "get the f%# out of my way" of New York and after seven years in the South, I'm still not used to people being so courteous. At first all this Southern hospitality used to get on my nerves, but after reading this, I can appreciate it. That's a really sad event. I had no idea things we so bad now and that wasn't even in Manhattan! But then I've worked on L.I. too and know that's a pretty rough crowd.

[dangerous1337]

oh my god, this is close to where I live. Consumerism at its worst!

[justatransgirl]

I heard the guy who was killed was a maintenance worker. Probably the guy who unlocked the door and didn't realize the frenzy about to engulf him.

Jeeze, I hope a $5 t-shirt or cheap plasma TV was worth some guys life. Sad to think this is what America has come to.

As for the economy, I don't know how it's going elsewhere, but here in San Diego, other than real estate realigning - what recession? I don't see it. Maybe it's because we are a military and tourism town.

The restaurants all have hour waits most nights. Everyone at our complex seems to have a new car. The malls were packed to the gills. I had the misfortune to have to drive past Mission Valley Mall today and it took three lights to get through an intersection that never has a wait. And the city is building a new terminal to moor "mega-yachts" downtown.

Sheesh,
TS Jamie

[Snoriega27]

From Newsday:
"...the melee began just after a Wal-Mart employee told the crowd the store would open earlier than the scheduled 5 a.m. opening. The employee then said it was a joke. This angered the crowd, leading to people trying to rush the store..."