Walmart employee loses his life to Black Friday stampede

[CATCH17]

An unidentified 34-year-old employee was killed when customers flooded through the doors of the Black Friday opening of a Walmart in Long Island. The man was knocked over and trampled as shoppers literally walked over him to access the store faster.

While only one fatality was recorded, a pregnant women had to be hospitalized after being knocked to the floor and three other persons suffered minor injuries. Shoppers were still coming in as emergency workers were trying to save the man's life.

"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back."

 

[BigDinAZ]

This is sad!!

My dad just called me from New York, and told me about this. I used to shop at this exact Wal-Mart when I live in Long Island.

 

[bobtheflob]

I will never shop on Black Friday. I think it's a lot of humanity at it's worst, as this story shows. Very sad. I hope they find a way to charge these people with a crime.

 

[bbgun]

I hope that $5 DVD was worth it.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I hope that $5 DVD was worth it.

No kidding

No sale is worth is worth being this stupid over.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

I hope they have video of this and every person who stomped that guy or who ran past him is identified and has the hell beaten out of them.

I hate this kind of display of ignorance. People like this have no place in society with normal human beings. They should be caged up.

 

[Mavs Man]

This is sad!!

My dad just called me from New York, and told me about this. I used to shop at this exact Wal-Mart when I live in Long Island.

Which store on Long Island was it? There aren't that many.

 

[bbgun]

Yet another reason to do your shopping online. I don't mean to excuse the animals who did this, but why wasn't the store better prepared for something like this?

 

[DIAF]

Which store on Long Island was it? There aren't that many.

Green Acres.

You think this story is bad, it gets worse when you see the video of them trying to resuscitate him.

There are people actually LAUGHING in the background.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGrp5prieg

Edit: pictures of the crowd and the stampede
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/ga...es/walmart_stampede_captured_in_pictures.html

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Yet another reason to do your shopping online. I don't mean to excuse the animals who did this, but why wasn't the store better prepared for something like this?

A guy with a gun out front might have been in order.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Green Acres.

You think this story is bad, it gets worse when you see the video of them trying to resuscitate him.

There are people actually LAUGHING in the background.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGrp5prieg

Edit: pictures of the crowd and the stampede
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/ga...es/walmart_stampede_captured_in_pictures.html

Disgusting.

 

[theebs]

I hope that $5 DVD was worth it.

right on.

That is why thanksgiving is the best holiday. No gifts, especially no unessecary gifts just to feed the perception.

I love christmas, but I hate greed and these types of stories.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

A guy with a gun out front might have been in order.

that seems like the solution to all of lifes problem.

 

[Chief]

I heard the Walmart here had a fight breakout this morning between two women who reached for the same item. Swinging, hairpulling, the whole bit.

I also heard that they had less than half their checkout stations open and people were pissed.

It sounds like some of these stores (particularly Walmart) need to get better organized. More security, more employees, something. Maybe even some sort of lottery system to avoid the stampedes.

The Long Island story is sad, disgusting and pathetic.

Yet another reason why I love shopping online.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

that seems like the solution to all of lifes problem.

You don't think a couple of rounds fired in the air would have calmed them down?

I know, you're one of those....

Wrong forum for this discussion though.

 

[DIAF]

You don't think a couple of rounds fired in the air would have calmed them down?

I know, you're one of those....

Wrong forum for this discussion though.

One of those what? Non-gun nuts?

 

[ROMOSAPIEN9]

Gotta love the holidays!

 

[Cajuncowboy]

One of those what? Non-gun nuts?

Pretty much.

 

[jimmy40]

You don't think a couple of rounds fired in the air would have calmed them down?

I know, you're one of those....

Wrong forum for this discussion though.

Might have gotten about 300 rounds coming back at you.

 

[kristie]

it's terrible. just terrible.