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Man trampled to death at Walmart because of; a stupid SALE!
Topic Started: Nov 29 2008, 03:47 AM (450 Views)
Citizen Pawn
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http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/11/28/2008-11-28_worker_trampled_to_death_at_long_island_.html

Now this is the America we've mainly grown into being. I say this because the majoriy of people at this Walmart did nothing while a man died and killed him for CRAP! They killed him for Chinese made garbage and trinkets.

This is the America that won't change, no matter what laws or policies you put into place. These are the people that the rest of us (I say that assuming you are like me and would have helped him) are up against.

This is the America that needs to 'change'. Obama can't give anyone that.

I seriously think all those involved should be charged as accomplices to murder. If a security camera shows people trampling him and passing by while looking down and seeing a human being on the floor, they should be on trial. It's only one step away from a public lynching. Their greed and consumer fever killed a man , and he won't be able to spend anymore holidays with anyone, while they sit at their family dinners knowing they were probably one of the ones that stomped him to get that new Hannah Montana doll for their kid.

Sometimes I ask myself if this is the America worth saving. If it weren't for the few good people left, I think I would just not care.

Edited by Citizen Pawn, Nov 29 2008, 03:48 AM.
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Sureshot
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Black Friday always brings deaths from tramplings, I hear it every year. Its pretty sad. When the new PS3 came out, a guy got shot because he grabbed the last one in line.

http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_4678276

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Sureshot your avatar is driving me crazy. How come that one guy is not doing anything?

I cannot imagine getting in line for Chinese junk let alone fighting for it. So pathetic.

However most Americans would not be standing in lines like that. It only takes a few hundred idiots to create situations like that; the same idiots whose kids' toys are broken and in the trash a few days after they get them.





Edited by SPreston, Nov 29 2008, 09:49 AM.
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mid life rethinker
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I agree that this America is not worth fighting for. Anyone who walked over this man is an accomplice to murder. It's unreal, f'ing disgusting. This country has seriously f'ed up people in it. Even if you wanted to help you would have been trampled trying...
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Lin Kuei
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Before police shut down the store, eager shoppers streamed past emergency crews as they worked furiously to save the store clerk's life.


This quote especially made my stomach turn.

What's going to happen if/when it's not a walmart sale - but food and water handouts following a real economic collapse or calamity?

Will a sense of humanity and common decency win out at the end of the day???

I say yes... ...albeit naïvely.
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Nov 29 2008, 09:45 AM
I agree that this America is not worth fighting for. Anyone who walked over this man is an accomplice to murder. It's unreal, f'ing disgusting. This country has seriously f'ed up people in it. Even if you wanted to help you would have been trampled trying...
I've been wondering this too. If the country collapses, her citizens will give up without a fight, without much bloodshed, and with the least of resistance. Her people value stuff and programming more than the work for a real relationship. Human relationships are real, yet stuff they run out to buy is not. This stuff won't be there after they've died. Yet this is exactly the type of legacy they will leave.

Ask not what your Gucci can do for you, but what your Gucci fashion sense will do for the country. It's very disheartening. Imagine this man's life and his obituary, I can't imagine that this person will be enshrined, but our consumerism causes these and worse effects on the developing third world. Both are just as sorrowful, both equally separate as a cause for living in one's means.
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Travis
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I guess they don't call them zombies for nothing.


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Tim Riches

When the crowd gets to be really big, it's up to the store to have employees go out to direct foot traffic onto the premises safely. This sale has been going on since the 1960's, they should have this shit refined to an art by now! Store entrances can be used by two to three customers at a time. A choke point naturally develops.

Easily preventable death.
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Meanwhile, the union that represents retail workers in the United States has accused Wal-Mart of "blatant irresponsibility" by not preventing Damour's death.

"This incident was avoidable," said Bruce Both, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500, as quoted in a report by CNN.

"Where were the safety barriers? Where was security? How did store management not see dangerous numbers of customers barreling down on the store in such an unsafe manner?"

The union, which has long condemned Wal-Mart for allegedly poor treatment of its employees including low wages and poor health benefits, is calling for an investigation "by all levels of government," according to CNN.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/11/29/walmart-investigation.html
Edited by Tim Riches, Nov 30 2008, 10:41 AM.
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Travis
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Tim even though such an event could have been prevented it is symbolic of the society and times we find our selves living in.
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