Black Friday death at a Wal-Mart

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

A crowd of shoppers trampled a store worker to death while rushing toward Black Friday specials at a Long Island Wal-Mart.

It's an appalling event, made even more newsworthy by the fact that American shoppers have been encouraged in recent days to make sure they get out and spend money to boost the economy.

Obviously, no one wanted anything like this event to occur.

Witnesses said a worker at a Wal-Mart in Long Island died after he tried to hold shoppers back before the scheduled 5 a.m. opening of the store.

But the stock clerk was run over by "unruly crowds," according to a report in the New York Daily News.

"As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him," the paper reported.

Police closed the store during the investigation of the death.

That decision probably angered a lot of shoppers but it was the proper thing to do.

I wonder if the word "doorbuster" is going to become a bad word now.

Truly disgusting.

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quote That decision probably angered a lot of shoppers but it was the proper thing to do.

Screw the shoppers. Heaven forbid they didn't get their TV after a fresh kill. Screw Wal-Mart too. They'll never express it out loud, but behind closed doors they are huffing and puffing about their lost $500,000 in today's receipts and future losses from a law suit. I used to manage for them, I know. This sucks all the way around. What has happened to our society that a TV is the price tag of a human life?

Jim

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quote Originally posted by jimbolaya: ... What has happened to our society that a TV is the price tag of a human life?

Definitely sums up my viewpoint on the state of the world.

~Ellen

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