ZombieHorde
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Sat Nov-29-08 07:57 PM
Response to Reply #1 |
| 61. "nothing to do with any shoppers" |
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Some of the shoppers pushed the people in front of them, otherwise, this would not have happened.
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| -Sought: Wal-Mart Shoppers Who Trampled NY Worker |
Hissyspit |
Nov-29-08 07:01 AM |
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IMO they don't have to look very far if they want to affix blame |
tularetom |
Nov-29-08 07:11 AM |
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Eh, you beat me to it. |
Prag |
Nov-29-08 07:17 AM |
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Yep, damn them for offering such attractive sales.... |
WriteDown |
Nov-29-08 11:13 AM |
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See my link below |
Oak2004 |
Nov-29-08 12:37 PM |
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Worth posting some of that: |
Hannah Bell |
Nov-30-08 01:42 AM |
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Companies have a legal obligation to provide a reasonably safe environment. |
yardwork |
Nov-29-08 12:38 PM |
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You can throw Toys R Us in that mix as well... |
WriteDown |
Nov-29-08 12:39 PM |
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Yes, and Wal Mart is at fault for not having security and gigantic |
Acadia Blue |
Nov-29-08 04:35 PM |
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Best Buy passes out tickets to people in line (first come, first serve) |
qanda |
Nov-29-08 01:30 PM |
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Wal-mart will likely collect on his life insurance policy too. |
heliarc |
Nov-29-08 02:30 PM |
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Is Walmart unionized? |
lebkuchen |
Nov-29-08 12:14 PM |
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Certainly NOT. |
surrealAmerican |
Nov-29-08 12:46 PM |
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That's what happened in Germany, and they're gone now |
lebkuchen |
Nov-29-08 01:02 PM |
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Give them a choice: permit unions, or the government will seize alr industry assets |
Vidar |
Nov-30-08 07:31 PM |
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"nothing to do with any shoppers" |
ZombieHorde |
Nov-29-08 07:57 PM |
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Wal-Mart thinks they have nothing to account for |
crys630 |
Nov-30-08 12:52 AM |
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Did the security cams catch a picture of a... |
Prag |
Nov-29-08 07:16 AM |
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Also, the people who actually trampled the man probably didn't intend to do so. |
yardwork |
Nov-29-08 12:41 PM |
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The one good thing about this horrible story |
JNelson6563 |
Nov-29-08 07:24 AM |
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The police could interview the first 100 or so who paid by debit or credit card. |
no_hypocrisy |
Nov-29-08 07:29 AM |
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I think you nailed a good angle. Plenty of faces in that crowd to ID also |
ohio2007 |
Nov-29-08 08:17 AM |
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The people in the front were being pushed by the people behind them |
Merlot |
Nov-29-08 10:23 AM |
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"customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store was closing" |
Edweird |
Nov-29-08 07:44 AM |
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Treat people like animals and they become animals. n/t |
geomon666 |
Nov-29-08 07:53 AM |
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greed turns humans into animals |
ohio2007 |
Nov-29-08 08:29 AM |
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capitalism turns people into animals |
DBoon |
Nov-29-08 09:19 AM |
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Bluray turns people into animals. nt |
WriteDown |
Nov-29-08 11:14 AM |
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and soylent green is made out of people |
ohio2007 |
Nov-29-08 01:51 PM |
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Credit card transactions |
liberal N proud |
Nov-29-08 07:55 AM |
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Right, bring them in, match them up on the video, and then |
FarCenter |
Nov-29-08 08:08 AM |
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Well, as all the customers did their part - arrest them all. At leats we're not in Iran... |
HypnoToad |
Nov-29-08 07:58 AM |
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an uncontrolled crowd like that is a human tsunami wave |
eShirl |
Nov-29-08 08:06 AM |
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Yes |
Oak2004 |
Nov-29-08 10:06 AM |
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But that's too reasonable. We must blame the crowd because, well, just because! n/t |
Doremus |
Nov-29-08 10:31 AM |
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LOL! |
BecauseBushSaysSo |
Nov-29-08 12:55 PM |
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You should design European soccer stadiums. |
WriteDown |
Nov-29-08 11:16 AM |
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Common, no. Has happened, yes. |
Oak2004 |
Nov-29-08 11:56 AM |
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You have a good point. |
Sugar Smack |
Nov-29-08 10:27 AM |
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video of the stampede |
ohio2007 |
Nov-29-08 08:10 AM |
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Amazing only one person died! |
genevat |
Nov-29-08 08:42 AM |
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Um, that's an old video. I haven't seen any video from the recent one. |
Doremus |
Nov-29-08 10:34 AM |
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um, that's thanksgiving 2005. |
Hannah Bell |
Nov-30-08 01:58 AM |
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that's old but about 20 seconds into it you see a guy who keeps pushing people down |
JI7 |
Nov-30-08 02:07 AM |
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If this had happened at an anti-war demonstration |
DBoon |
Nov-29-08 09:18 AM |
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Trampling deaths happened at a Who concert in Cincinnati |
TheBorealAvenger |
Nov-29-08 10:38 AM |
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I remember it very well. That's when I learned about the physics of crowds. |
yardwork |
Nov-29-08 12:46 PM |
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interesting... |
shanti |
Nov-29-08 01:07 PM |
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Good point. I always remind my kids of the dangers of large crowds. |
yardwork |
Nov-29-08 02:14 PM |
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My very good friend's son died in that one. |
glinda |
Nov-29-08 01:14 PM |
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by 1979, The Who were respectably mainstream |
DBoon |
Nov-29-08 02:50 PM |
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People who don't know *anything* are still not hesitant to offer their opinions |
TheBorealAvenger |
Nov-29-08 07:39 PM |
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Why was there a stampede? |
DiverDave |
Nov-29-08 10:14 AM |
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I've avreaged 2-3 arena-sized rock concerts per year... |
Iggo |
Nov-29-08 10:18 AM |
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Yes; remember 'festival seating' at that Who concert and how that led to deaths? |
Maeve |
Nov-29-08 10:36 AM |
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If I remember correctly... |
Iggo |
Nov-29-08 10:58 AM |
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You have it right |
Maeve |
Nov-29-08 01:31 PM |
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No one deliberately tampled anyone people! |
lunatica |
Nov-29-08 10:34 AM |
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You are correct, but Wal*mart management was negligent |
TheBorealAvenger |
Nov-29-08 10:41 AM |
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Oh bull...me me me me... |
snooper2 |
Dec-01-08 10:01 AM |
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Ironic that another mob has arisen to criticize the first mob. |
Doremus |
Nov-29-08 10:39 AM |
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The crowd was doing EXACTLY what was expected |
Steerpike_Denver |
Nov-29-08 10:47 AM |
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At Wal-Mart it's called a Blitz |
MessiahRp |
Nov-29-08 11:11 AM |
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A link on the subject: |
Oak2004 |
Nov-29-08 11:58 AM |
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WAL-MART |
JohnAB |
Nov-29-08 11:23 AM |
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Yeah. We get it. Could you stop shouting? |
mycritters2 |
Nov-29-08 09:14 PM |
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They should be holding the company to account |
47of74 |
Nov-29-08 12:01 PM |
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The local district attorney shouldn't go after individual shoppers unless he also goes after Wal-Mar |
Selatius |
Nov-29-08 02:24 PM |
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Someone has to go to jail |
Ignorimus |
Nov-29-08 05:17 PM |
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They're too busy playing with their bloody electronics to be bothered. |
pinniped |
Dec-01-08 05:00 AM |
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I hope they prosecute ever single person that.... |
Zombie2 |
Dec-01-08 05:21 AM |
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Stupid Materialistic Humans |
snooper2 |
Dec-01-08 09:55 AM |
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