http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-11-28-walmart-death_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip Fucking disgusting. How can this herd of morons have such little empathy for a fellow man. Not only did they trample the guy to death, when the store is closed down they complain? Really? I hope that police can review the store video tapes and press some kind of charges on these sick people that are willing to trample someone to death to save 100 dollars on a new TV. And to think people wonder why America is looked upon so poorly by the rest of the world.
Re: OT: Walmart worker killed by frenzied shoppers have you ever been to walmart? I found the experience to be disgusting. crappy products, depressing shoppers buying in droves and droves. yuck. not surprised that this happened here.
Re: OT: Walmart worker killed by frenzied shoppers In this situation I dont think you can really place much blame on walmart. These people broke down the door before trampling the guy to death. I guess walmart could stop people from lining up outside, but the majority of the blame should be placed on the people bum rushing in to save a buck. Seriously, what can you possibly want so badly that you'd break down the door and be willing to trample a guy to death? I can't even imagine.
Re: OT: Walmart worker killed by frenzied shoppers I don't blame Walmart, its just the type of people that shops there, at least in my experience. A much lower class of consumer versus say....Target. Its like in college, I worked at both Meier and Frank and Nordstrom....working at nordstrom was 10000x better because the clientele was much more civilized, whileI at M and F, it was a bunch of scrubs and assorted trash.
you've got to also consider the types of people who "camp out all night" for sales are pretty friggin sorry too.....dunno.....its thanksgiving...you stand in the cold for 5 hours to get a plasma? american idiots!
Yeah. The deals weren't even all that great this year. We've never camped out on black friday. Seems dumb given that thanksgiving is a holiday...but then again, not everyone has a family to celebrate it with. In past years, me and my dad would go to Kohls. That is the place to go, everything is pretty much 50% off or more. You can get a ton of nice clothing on black friday, although we don't have any money this year because of the economy, so we didn't go clothing shopping at Kohls. We just went to circuit city/bestbuy in the morning.
haha....i went to Kohl's with my mom on a black friday a few years ago....first and last time I ever went to a black friday AM sale....the line was like 45 minutes and was just a madhouse....not my cup of tea...... I usually hit up a store in the afternoon or something.....no lines...... some deals left over.
Re: OT: Walmart worker killed by frenzied shoppers I don't know. Walmart did nothing to encourage a frenzied horde of shoppers to assemble Friday morning? Seems to me they did everything they could to assemble a frenzied mob. They just didn't want it to be quite that frenzied. Inciting a riot is a crime. I'm sure this is the first time I've ever used frenzied so many times in one post. Frenzied, frenzied, frenzied. barfo
And near LA there was a gun battle at a Toys-R-Us. The shallow end of the gene pool seems real crowded sometimes.
Re: OT: Walmart worker killed by frenzied shoppers How so? What type of advertising for that store did you read to lead you to your conclusion? Please post the link for us to review what you have investigated that places the store's advertising and other promotionals as the precursor for this tragedy.
If you've ever met New Yorkers in your travels anywhere, you can hardly be surprised. They are what they are.
Re: OT: Walmart worker killed by frenzied shoppers Give me a break. When people act like idiots, it's not Bush's fault, or Wal-Mart's fault, or the government's fault. It's their fault. Period.
Re: OT: Walmart worker killed by frenzied shoppers Not true! As anyone can plainly tell from reading the O/T section that everything bad in the world is Bush's fault and everything good to the praises of liberals.
Re: OT: Walmart worker killed by frenzied shoppers You think it was some sort of coincidence that a crowd assembled at WalMart early Friday morning after Thanksgiving? Please provide links for us to review backing your opinion. barfo
Re: OT: Walmart worker killed by frenzied shoppers Dude...you cant blame Walmart at all on this. There are thousands of stores across the country that have similar crazy deals where people start assembling at 5am. Are all those stores trying to inciting a riot but just not very good at it??? Its not Walmarts fault that they attract more stupid people than other stores. Should we ban "Black Firday" because of the crowds that happen because of it? "But your honor, they were selling blue ray players so cheap that it was criminal!" Should there be laws they dont allow too good of a deal on products because it might incite a riot? Obviously all my questions are rhetorical but come on...
