Shoppers Trampled On Black Friday

[jayfish]

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4164133

(Cascade Township, November 25, 2005, 8:13 a.m.) As shoppers headed out this morning for their Black Friday savings, a rush at a local Wal-Mart left some people injured.

Wal-Mart opened its doors at 5:00 a.m., letting in a mad rush of people.

All I can say is :puke:.

Jay

[otohara]

1. I Second Your Puke

this is gross.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

2. That's the spirit! Wonder if that $10 "down" vest was worth...

a back injury?

[DS1]

3. I have zero sympathy for these people

:shrug:

[Independent thinker]

5. Some shoppers are crazy, that walmart is near me

Probably only an hour away from me.

My brother ventured out today to get some "must have" items from
the local Best Buy. The store opened at 5, he was in line at 3:45 AM!
Guess what, it was 16 degrees out with 4 inches of snow on the ground
and there were people that had tents and camped overnight!

Now I thought that was crazy, until I read the account of people
trampling each other!

[DS1]

13. The savings simply isn't worth it to me

I'm wondering if it's more about bragging rights for some of these people. Sort of like the Star Wars crowd camping for weeks before new releases.

"I slept in a tent for two weeks to be the first in line for the midnight showing of Sith, man"

"Good for you, I pulled up 5 minutes before the door opened and saw the same showing"

[Deja Q]

4. The animals would eat each other.

What the fuck has out *cough* "society" become?

[salin]

6. Where is this Cascade Township?

[Independent thinker]

12. Cascade Twp. is near Grand Rapids, Michigan

[mrcheerful]

18. BTW Grand rapids is also one of the cities in michigan that is red.

That is why trampling in wal mart is not so unusual. Theres more freepers here then any other city of michigan, except for midland mi, home of Dow. Now you want to see a real freeper town, go to midland. Can you imagine a judge telling a defendent in open court that the judge don't like poor people from surrounding towns coming into midland to commit crimes? Or how if your not from midland you get a harsher sentence if convicted of a crime? Poor little midland its a small town of red surrounded by a sea of blue.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. ROFL

Thinning the herd.

These people are clowns.

[marylanddem]

8. This is SO sick - what the hell is wrong with people? Greed?

Or the kind of soul-dead hopelessness that can only be filled up with shit from walmart? God, this really sucks. And every year there's some damned story like this.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. "Black Friday" supports the Chinese economy which pays for our

national debt that pays Halliburton and the war, and low-interest rates that buy megamansions, so I guess shopping is patriotic in a roundabout way.

[bammertheblue]

10. damn

Oh shit....I work retail! I am afraid I'll get trampled. Although since I don't work till 5 pm and definitely DON'T work at Walmart, hopefully the stupid nuts will have gone home by then.
Scary! People can be so stupid over nothing.

[dkofos]

14. Start a union

and lobby for hazardous duty pay

[marylanddem]

11. It's that carry-over from Thanksgiving I guess

consume consume consume, food, stuff, just CONSUME!!!!

[tx_dem41]

15. Has anyone ever considered the fact that some of these shoppers...

are people that are poor or lower middle class and these sales (which are substantial on needed items like clothing) are a great help to them? I'm not going to defend the absolute crazies that are trampling each other for "luxury" items, but neither am I going to condemn all people shopping today.

[Telly Savalas]

21. Add to that...

the fact that it only takes a small percentage of the crowd acting like idiots to make the situation dangerous.

I don't see why some people are so quick to judge the consumption patterns of others. Do such DUers post using computers they picked from the computer tree in their backyard?

[jbnow]

22. Thanks, I was thinking the same thing

Though I think we have too much stuff and think we need more stuff...as a society that believes in stuff, some people can't afford the stuff without the sale.

I wouldn't go out there and freeze and wait, but if I was low income and had children I guess I might. People want their kids to have what other kids have and it hurts not to give or to have them disappointed.

But I have friends who just like to shop and like deals. I bet some of them were in lines somewhere.

[tridim]

16. All the cable nets are in 24 hour retail commercial mode

One story after another, telling us what to buy, what kids want, what adults want, where to buy it, etc. As Randi Rhodes says, "The news has been canceled".

[DesertRat]

17. Disgusting

I'm going to do most of my shopping online.

[opihimoimoi]

19. A small sample of what will happen when we reach Peak FOOD

People will kill for food, resort to nasty things like eating the animals in the zoo, eating roots and leaves, eating natto and lutefisk, eating sashimi, and raw oysters, even turkey tails...

[951-Riverside]

20. If I was the store manager...

And my customers were tramping each other I would put the senseless morons under arrest and close the store until order could be regained offcourse I would probably be fired on the spot by the district manager.

[johnfunk]

23. It's the inevitable result of the media having brainwashed the lemmings...

... into a consumer frenzy which is to commence at or before dawn on the day after the Thanksgenocide celebration.

This is just one facet of the postmodern American secular religion, brought to you by the Bush Dynasty, their Cheney owners, the Heritage Foundation, Wal-Mart, NBC, Focus on (Physically Abusing) the Family, CBS, Reader's Digest, Nike, ABC, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Enron, Richard Mellon Scaife, Amway and FOX Broadcasting Company.

[Jamison]

24. It gets worse every year.

I bet by next year some crazy brings a gun & starts shooting in order to eliminate the competition for that $19.95 DVD player.