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.
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The story is a sad note on human behavior. The story falls under the category of if it bleeds it leads, but in the current economic context one wonders if there is a deeper significance.
A chillingly heartbreaking account of what is fundamentally the preventable waste of a human life for nothing more important than bargain shopping. But then, mob violence is mob violence no matter where it occurs or for what reasons.
To an extent, retailers, themselves, bear much blame for out-of-control crowds who tear off doors and trample others in their bargain hunting frenzy, with lures of outrageous reductions for the first fifty or hundred people to enter the store. Is our economy in such a miserable state that property destruction and human life are scant recompense for bargains?
This country would have been better off if one of our ENEMIES had served as our president. Bush has done more to destroy our country than I ever realized one human being was capable of. And he's still doing it, right up to the bitter end. And it has been a BITTER 8 years. It's almost as if he's going to punish us for his 20% approvall ratings by polluting the air we breathe and the water we drink. This man has shown nothing but contempt for his fellow man. What a hateful, ... More »
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