 DrModemPremium
join:2006-10-19
USA
kudos:1 | [Rant] Black Friday Deaths This is ridiculous. Every year just about we read stories of people getting trampled in a mad rush to grab half price TVs and Xboxes.
This year, a crowd took that a step further and broke down the doors at a Walmart, killing a 34 year old employee and injuring several other people(Story).
Stupid, stupid, STUPID.
I wish the Walmart employees were given rifles on Black Friday to gun down door breaching stampeders like that. Because the stampeding people with "50% Off" in their eyeballs obviously don't care enough to not kill for it.
I say, if you want to make a mad stampede for a plasma TV, be prepared to eat lead 
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 AlcoholPremium
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DrModemPremium
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USA
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1 edit | Even gangstas shop on black friday? |
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 Sweet WitchBe the flame, not the moth.Premium,MVM
join:2003-07-15
Gallifrey | reply to DrModem
A link to the WalMart story that you don't have to sign in to see - »www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27955316 |
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 sawmanPremium
join:2002-04-25
BC KS | reply to DrModem
Walmart should pay a substantial compensation to this man's family for failing to protect his life from these animals. There also should have been more police there to arrest those interfering with the attempt to resuscitate him. Just more proof that there are too many people in this world. 12 MILLION people went hungry in the USA this year yet these animals will trample a young man to buy some cheap crap. Sick. |
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 CCatWe're all quite mad herePremium,MVM
join:2005-12-06
Wonderland
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The sad part is that probably none of the people responsible will feel any guilt or remorse for the store employee who died. After all look at all the bargains they got.
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 61999674Gotta Do What Ya Gotta DoPremium
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Here
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And no one got anything, after the riot(that's was it was in reality),they closed the store.
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 Mr NeutronLooks like I picked the wrong week toPremium
join:2005-05-30
Gorham, ME
2 edits | reply to DrModem
said by DrModem:This is ridiculous. Not really. If you think about it, people trampling other people to death in their mad rush to buy plastic shit they don't need is entirely appropriate for this time of the year. No kidding.
Those people and their actions are just a reflection of where we, as a country, are at, that's all. :shrugs:
Also, you have to admit it's pretty darn impressive to be able point to your new big-screen TV and tell your buddy, "See that? I killed a man for it!" 
"Someone should remind her that Christmas is more than barging up and down department store aisles and pushing people out of the way. Someone has to tell her that Christmas is another thing finer than that. Richer, finer, truer. And it should come with patience and love...charity, compassion. That's what I would have told her if she'd given me the chance."
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
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Phoenix, AZ
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said by sawman:Walmart should pay a substantial compensation to this man's family for failing to protect his life from these animals. You can bet the family will see an easy payday and sue.
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CCatWe're all quite mad herePremium,MVM
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| You can bet the family will see an easy payday and sue. I really doubt if they will get anything by trying to sue Wally Mart...but you never know.
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 ABPremium
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Leesburg, VA
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said by CCat:The sad part is that probably none of the people responsible will feel any guilt or remorse for the store employee who died. After all look at all the bargains they got. You want to know what's even sadder? The retailers are more or less complicit in this.
They fool people into believing they need to line up outside the store 24 hours in advance to get these 'extra-special-super-duper-one-time-only-you-can't-make-it-another-day-without-never-priced-this-low-again-ever' bargains, thereby instigating the lynch-mob, 'someone yelled fire in the theatre' mind-set of these rabid, frothing, so-called "shoppers".
The people are whipped into a frenzy, and it's the retailers who did the whipping. |
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 DataDocMy avatar looks like me, if I was 2D.Premium
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Greenville, NC
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said by sawman:... 12 MILLION people went hungry in the USA this year yet these animals will trample a young man to buy some cheap crap. Sick. This had nothing to do with hunger, just greed.
You quoted Ted Kennedy incorrectly, his claim was "We have 36 million Americans that are going to bed hungry every night. 36 million Americans! And 12 million of those are children!" And he was wrong. In 2006, the same year as his claim, the USDA estimated that fewer than one American in 200 will experience hunger due to a lack of money to buy food. Still too many. |
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| What I really like is the people who state things like over and over but yet, just sit there on their asses still preaching. Try leading by example sometime? No I didn't think they would. 
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sawmanPremium
join:2002-04-25
BC KS
2 edits | reply to DataDoc
It is a figure from the Agriculture Department's 2007 annual report on food security.
The figure is one in eight, not one in two hundred.
Plus the figures have grown by more than forty percent since 2000.
My point is these people killed for their cheap plastic, wait till they're after your dinner. |
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DataDocMy avatar looks like me, if I was 2D.Premium
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| said by sawman:It is a figure from the Agriculture Department's 2007 annual report on food security. The figure is one in eight, not one in two hundred. Plus the figures have grown by more than forty percent since 2000. My point is these people killed for their cheap plastic, wait till they're after your dinner. You're using the same (wrong) logic as Teddy for your figure. "Food difficulty" is not the same as "going to bed hungry every night."
But we do agree about the greed, so I'm done.
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 CylonRedPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | reply to AB
said by AB:said by CCat:The sad part is that probably none of the people responsible will feel any guilt or remorse for the store employee who died. After all look at all the bargains they got. You want to know what's even sadder? The retailers are more or less complicit in this. They fool people into believing they need to line up outside the store 24 hours in advance to get these 'extra-special-super-duper-one-time-only-you-can't-make-it-another-day-without-never-priced-this-low-again-ever' bargains, thereby instigating the lynch-mob, 'someone yelled fire in the theatre' mind-set of these rabid, frothing, so-called "shoppers". The people are whipped into a frenzy, and it's the retailers who did the whipping. But the people need to have a brain first and that is what is missing. All of the marketing in the world should not cause the stampede because there should be some amount of common sense. |
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RJ44
join:2001-10-19
Nashville, TN | reply to DrModem
Yanno what pissed me off nearly as much as the actual riot? Walmart's pathetic corporate response. I'm sorry, I don't have a link at the moment. It was a two paragraph response, obviously crafted by attorneys who had "cover their ass" foremost in mind. The first paragraph devoted 3 or 4 sentences to explaining all the extra security they employed for the event (read: it's not our fault, honest).
The second paragraph was two sentences. It basically said, oh by the way, we're sorry the guy died and feel bad for his family. It looked and sounded very much like the afterthought it obviously was. |
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Well for one, I do not think they should have black friday. Each store should put out an ad and state this is what will be on sale. The store then puts an item out on the shelf randomly throughout a few days. This will put off the rush.
As for who is responsible for this. Anyone who used a check or credit card within the first 30 minutes of opening should be charged something for the crime. It is fairly guranteed these people were part of the rush. Even if they did not step on the person, they were caught up in that mess of pushing and shoving.
Again Christmas has become too commercial. The bottom line is the dollar and not the true meaning. As stated above put advertised specials out randomly throughout a week. It would make shopping more interesting. And they should arrest anyone who camps out near the store more than 20 minutes early. |
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Yes, the lack of empathy in the USA is sickening. No other country I have been to is probably this bad. The sheer fact that the people put a stupid price of a television ahead of a person's life does tell you how just how bad the crisis is. I would have gotten more out of my day helping a person than buying an item at the store but everyone is so self centered they really can't feel empathy or concern for anyone. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK
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said by sawman:Walmart should pay a substantial compensation to this man's family for failing to protect his life from these animals. They should arrest the animals who did this then should be stripped of their personal property and wealth and it should be given to this man's family.
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