They trampled him after taking the doors of the store off its hinges trying to get in to shop. Story here. Pictures here. They also trampled a pregnant woman, who at last report was in the hospital.
Note well that these weren't starving masses desperate for bread. These were suburban jackasses who wanted TVs and consumer crap. What sick, wicked culture produced such people? Food riots, I understand. Nintendo riots? Sign of the times. Makes you wonder if we don't deserve at some collective level what we're about to get on the economic front (bearing in mind that the rain falls, alas, on the just and the unjust).
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WalMart asked for this disaster. Retailers like to call these sales "Doorbusters"; isn't that so?
I understand that one of the advertised specials at the store was a mere $9 for the dvd of The Incredible Hulk. But hey, why watch the film version of a guy who can't deal with his inner rage, when you can see the real thing, live and in person?
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What would the "anti-racists" see if they took their heads out of the sand?
I love there are people attempting to justify their racist assertations that something like this would never happen if the people were white...
...when there was a shooting on Black Friday, mentioned above, in Palm Desert CA Toys 'R' Us, an incredibly white city.
In other words, all the people lamenting about how 'black culture' made them accidentally crush someone to death (Something that is easier than you might imagine when large groups of people funnel through narrow doors...all you need is about 1/4th of the crowd in the back willing to shove, and some random blockage) need to realize that, duh, a white guy just shot (Or tried to shoot) another white guy over a toy, presumably deliberately.
The problem has nothing to do with race, or even culture per se.
The problem has to do with idiotic stores that hyper-promote a single event, and unwilling to deal with unruly crowds. If the crowd would not back up to let them open the doors, then the crowd should not get in the store, as the crowd is out of control. The store should refuse to open and demand the crowd disperse at threat of arrest if they are behaving like that.
I guess it does have to do with culture a little, but it's American culture of 'Hey, let's go join the crowd on Black Friday/the midnight opening of that movie/the very first moment we can do something', which is an incredibly dangerous and stupid thought process past certain levels, especially if it's coupled with 'And then race to put stuff in our carts and check out'. Whereas standing in line for the openings of movies is just silly, not dangerous, because there's (almost) no rushing when the 'Magical Event' happens and you get to be the first one to see the movie.
Both the Wal Mart corporation and those present in the crowd should be charged with AT LEAST manslaughter on this. And I'm sure that, working at WAL MART, the guy didn't have any insurance anyway. So sorry to the surviving family but, hey, you're S**T outta luck. Heres a huge medical bill just in time for the holidays.
In a culture that prizes money above all else (compassion? family? justice? "peace on earth, good will towards men"?), this should come as no surprise.
I agree with the author: The American Idol culture of dollar worship (which includes all of us) will soon be getting what it deserves.
now we know why troops are being trained for domestic situations. what would these people do when things get real rough, economically speaking?
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