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Man Dies After Wal-Mart Stampede

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What is most damning about this article, is that there was a stampede of ravenous consumers who gave no thought to the safety or the lives of others. All they concerned themselves with, was getting cheap Chinese made shit to make their lives feel fulfilled.

Every person in that store at the front of the stampede should be arrested for negilgent homicide.

When I see shit like this, I'm thankful that my genetic predisposition is to avoid crowds, or HERDS of sheeple.

Every day our nation fails in some way, by creating consumers, instead of creating free thinking producers.
 
Very shocking and distubing. The thought of going to Wal-Mart on black Friday with a bunch of sheeple makes my skin crawl. I hate crowds and shopping. Yes I am a female that hates shopping.
 
Jesus christ.

Ive been hearing about the crazy 'black friday' goings on in the US all week through my gaming interest. But for it to go this far is just fricken insane.
 
Every person in that store at the front of the stampede should be arrested for negilgent homicide.

When I see shit like this, I'm thankful that my genetic predisposition is to avoid crowds, or HERDS of sheeple.

Every day our nation fails in some way, by creating consumers, instead of creating free thinking producers.
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Gee and you wonder why they don't land on the whiter house lawn.

Walmart should have done crowd control. I used to do it for Ticket master in the days when people camped out for concert tickets. They should have never been able to have access to the door all at once.

This is why I shop online
 
Brings new meaning to the term "shop 'til you drop".

Truly disturbing stuff, I wonder what Jeebus would say?
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Well, in certain areas of the good ol' US (and we know where), he'd say, "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!"

Or the recent classic, "Whut are ya, an un-murrican turrist?"

Yah, I know I'm naughty.
 
Mothra said:
Walmart should have done crowd control. I used to do it for Ticket master in the days when people camped out for concert tickets. They should have never been able to have access to the door all at once.
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Well the man killed was a Wally employee, so I'm guessing he WAS the crowd control.

If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times and this PROVES it; humans ARE herd animals.
 
Gareth said:
well yeah, the fact that we are social animals and live and work on top of each other proves that too.
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Yes but that's also true of other primates except they have the good sense not to gather together in huge herds like us. For a sentient species, we are dumb, dumb, dumb.
 
Humans were genetically engineered to have a strong herding instinct so they would be easier to gather when the meat-grinder ships arrive.
 
CapnG said:
Yes but that's also true of other primates except they have the good sense not to gather together in huge herds like us. For a sentient species, we are dumb, dumb, dumb.
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For some reason I'm reminded of the Zombies gathering together in the mall parking lot in the Dawn of the Dead remake.
 
Mothra said:
Walmart should have done crowd control. I used to do it for Ticket master in the days when people camped out for concert tickets. They should have never been able to have access to the door all at once.
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police statement said shortly after 5 a.m., a throng of shoppers "physically broke down the doors, knocking (the worker) to the ground."

that is directly from the cbs news link, and corroborates other reports I watched on the evening news. There was no chance for that poor soul as the doors were broken open.

What makes me more ill is a mom being interviewed and trying to justify how people get so crazy for bargains because "our kids won't understand about how mom and dad can't afford good Christmas toys, so what are you supposed to do?"

and that is a loose quote from that mom, but essentially, that is what she said.

what you are supposed to do, mom, is take the kids shopping with you with the money you do have for Christmas, and let them know exactly how much there is, and let them figure out what happens next. kids get it, if you give them half a chance, they do get it.

Kids expect what they are taught to expect.

and if you don't believe me, ask anyone who lived through the depression.
 
This is a truly disturbing event, and a cruel reminder of just how selfish and insular so many of us have become. It really doesn't seem to matter to these people that a man has died - just so long as they can have the kind of Christmas they want. I almost got punched by a vile-tempered old harpy a couple of years ago, because I challenged the way she was charging around the supermarket, slamming people out of her way with her shopping trolley (cart). She didn't care who she hit - mothers with babies, the elderly, anyone who stood between her and a cut-price Christmas pud.

I blame the retail and advertising industries for this hideous tragedy at Wal-Mart. From the end of August onwards here in the UK, we are bombarded with Christmas advertising, on TV, in the stores, etc. You simply cannot escape the hype. It's obscene. You're made to feel like a freak if you don't get into the so-called Christmas spirit.

What kind of Christmas will that poor man's family have now, especially if he has kids? My dad died the week before Christmas when I was eight, so if the guy who died has kids, I really feel for them. And all for what? A few cheap bits of tat on special offer. Disgusting. This was a homicide caused by greedy consumers, and even greedier retailers.

BTW, the UK branch of Wal-Mart, Asda, also has a somewhat tainted safety record:

BBC NEWS | Wales | South East Wales | Asda fined over car barrier death
 
The poor dead man was a temp (the Wal-Mart statement was, "We are saddened to report that a gentleman who was working for a temporary agency on our behalf died at the store...".)

While it's hard to imagine the people at the front of the line who walked over this guy were not culpable, I also wonder if they weren't pressed from behind til they spilled through the doors and had to go forward to avoid being knocked down and trampled themselves. On one hand I have to think they could've managed to not walk on another person; on another hand I keep thinking about the Riverfront Coliseum deaths in '79.
 
What makes me more ill is a mom being interviewed and trying to justify how people get so crazy for bargains because "our kids won't understand about how mom and dad can't afford good Christmas toys, so what are you supposed to do?"
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They will and do understand, just talk to them. I remember having more than my share of light holidays because of funds. I also remember my parents sitting me down and saying that there just wasn't enough money. After the initial disappointment I remember I didn't feel that bad because I realized that my parents didn't lie to me and talked to me as an adult. I mean they were way more heartbroken than I was.

The scariest moment I ever had with crowds was at a Faith No More show at the Trocadero in Philadelphia. I was up front and the crowd was surging back and forth. well one side collapsed (My side of course) I fell into the orchestra pit and I ended up under like a pile of people. Like 10 or 15 people. I thought that was it I couldn't move or breath and I couldn't even hear the band anymore because there were so many people on me. It only lasted like 30 seconds because the remaining crowd immediately started lifting people up. That was the last show I was up front for.
 
I am fortunate as I am a toy maker, and so my children will never need to worry about me and the wife going shopping for Christmas Toys.

It's stupid that these primates, and I'm using the correct term, act as if they are at the zoo, and there's not enough bananas to go around.
 
Mothra said:
They will and do understand, just talk to them. I remember having more than my share of light holidays because of funds..
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me, too, and some years, the only present we got was one from the school teacher. I may have had one from mom and dad, but not likely during some of the worst years. I remember a great-aunt who used to splurge on us and budgetted 25 cents for each of us! We used to have so much fun with that, we knew she was cheap, and we knew she loved us. We didn't care, we were happy to be together with our mom, dad, sisters and brother and our grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins and all that great food grandma cooked!

I would give up any of the Christmas gifts I have been spoiled with in these later years, to go back again to the Christmas with all my family, and where my gift from my parents cost 2 bucks. by the way, I still have the pendant, although the chain is long broken.

Happy Christmas Madison Avenue, you sure have made the gift giving part of it suck for most of us.
 
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