Wal Mart Employee dies today?!?!?!

Anonymous

DID YOU SEE THIS INSANITY???  ALL FOR A DEAL ON DVD's AND TOYS??!! 

UPDATED: Wal-Mart employee dies on Black Friday after being knocked down by shoppers

11:03 AM PT, Nov 28 2008

** UPDATE: Wal-Mart just released an updated statement from Hank Mullany, a senior vice president and president of the company's Northeast division. It includes this passage: "We expected a large crowd this morning and added additional internal security, additional third party security, additional store associates and we worked closely with the Nassau County Police. We also erected barricades. Despite all of our precautions, this unfortunate event occurred."

** UPDATE: A "personal dispute" at a Palm Desert Toys Us at 11:30 a.m. left two men dead from gunshot wounds. Read the full story here.

It's every Black Friday shopper's and security guard's worst nightmare.

Overeager shoppers jostling to get into a Wal-Mart on New York's Long Island trampled an employee to death this morning in the rush to snatch some good deals.

Also caught in that chaos at the Valley Stream, N.Y., store: a 28-year-old pregnant woman and at least three other shoppers who suffered minor injuries.

According to a police statement, the death happened at 5:03 a.m., minutes after Wal-Marts across the country opened their doors to the holiday rush.

The employee, a 34-year-old man, suffered "an undetermined death" when a "throng of shoppers ... physically broke down the doors, knocking him to the ground," according to the statement. He was declared dead at a nearby hospital at 6:03 a.m.

Wal-Mart was tight-lipped about the accident, saying in a statement that its officials are still working with Nassau County Police. The statement called the situation "tragic," added that the employee was working for a temporary agency and confirmed that several customers were also injured.

At a Best Buy in the Glendale area this morning, frustration and impatience caused several small fights to break out in the crowd before doors opened, according to police officers patrolling the front of the store.

magsandmattsmom

I heard this.  It's absolutely crazy!

abbadoodles

And they call this civilization???

BMac

I heard this and was absolutely sick.  What's wrong with people?

jdash

i live in long island - that walmart was in long island ny   i cannot believe what savages people can be ! are they going crazy ?   walmart SHOULD have provided for more security and had that crowd under control with baracades and lines !!!! they should be held responsible for this - if you look at the pictures before the doors opened it was chaos-  that is why I used to hate going to open admission concerts when i was younger-  i was always leary of crowds getting out of control    such a shame that this poor young man should die like that   and to boot- no one wanted to leave the store when they tried to close it     just maddness - my heart goes out to his family   what a tragic loss of life

NoH8

Ahhh, the true meaning of christmas and the christmas spirit. I don't blame walmart, I blame the animals that felt like they had the right to trample all over this man and those who tried to help him so they could get a bargain. Christmas is way too commercialized and I hope this gives people pause to sit back and think about what the holiday season is supposed to mean. I don't even see christmas as a religious holiday, but a marketing holiday to try to get people to spend money they don't have on people that already have too many things so they can bitch about those who say happy holidays to be inclusive instead of merry christmas.

mumito

How cananybody trample over someone just to get into a store to shop? My heart goes out to the employees who were working that morning and watched it all happen.

spar2

what a heart breaking loss.  I can't even imagine it.  Too sad for words.

Anonymous

I worked at Target about 6 years ago for a short while, and one of my first days was the day after Thanksgiving.  I was put on register, and witnessed a fist-fight over a Karaoke machine.  A FIST-FIGHT?!?!?  That's insane. 

I just want to know if any of those maniacs thought, "Oh, that is a person beneath my foot, not some really big garbage-I'd better stop and help block him so he doesn't get hurt any more."