Friday, November 28, 2008

This is disgusting....
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Wal-Mart worker dies during Black Friday event on Long Island
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Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

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What have we become?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sheesh, I hate all that crowded shopping--I'd rather pay the extra hundred bucks than have to fight the crowds--and now, risk getting trampled to death? Very sad.

Rachel said...

So sad. I guess we've become Europe; don't they have people die in soccer stampedes all the time?

For that matter I was once at a *Christian* rock concert and excited to be in the very front row. But whenever the band played the crowd surged forward and crushed me against the rail, making it impossible to enjoy the show and at points nearly impossible to breathe. I literally thought my life might be in danger, so at a break between songs I took the opportunity to fight my way to the back. The band was begging people not to push forward, but their pleading had no effect.

Adoro said...

I know! What stupid little trinket can POSSIBLY be worth someone's life? Do people have any idea that the world doesn't revolve around THEM?

(It can't. It revolves around ME!)

Sorry...couldn't resist.

In all seriousness, I'm so sorry for that person's family...how their grief must be made so much worse by this!

Mark D. said...

Well, when Christmas is basically just a secular event justifying massive materialistic consumerism, the kind of mad crowd behavior that accompanies any attempt to monopolize scarce resources will result. Crowd behavior is rarely pretty...

Christmas in our society is now little more than simply a marketing tool by retail and industry to get people to buy junk they don't need at prices they really can't afford.

The real nature of Christmas -- the religous holy day that celebrates the birth of Christ -- has largely been lost. Instead, we have a feast for mammon, for junk. Very sad.

Even more sad that people are being hurt -- and even killed -- in order to perpetuate the frenzied shopping of "the season."

Kirk said...

I agree with these comments. AGA and were discussing this very incident yesterday and how the world seems wholly overtaken by materialism even to the extent of shoppers continuing to rush by and around the people trying to revive the poor man! There didn't seem to be any sense of remorse or possibly the people were so taken with getting a bargain that they didn't even stop to realise they had just contributed to a person dying. . .

I would point out though that we don't have people killed in soccer stampedes all the time here in Europe. It has happened on a few occasions but due to varying circumstances

Anonymous said...

In case you aren't disgusted enough...

Several of the would-be bargain hunters initially argued with police and management who informed them all that the store was closed, immediately.

They were informed that the store was being closed because a man was trampled to death. To more then a few, this wasn't a good enough reason to justify keeping them from that $798 50" Plasma TV.

We are due for some retribution of the Divine variety. Be prepared.