We the people . . . are really kind of sad (Wall-Mart Employee Trampled)

This past weekend on black Friday a Wal-Mart Employee was trampled to death by shoppers trying to get their Wii, Playstation, Sweet new Ipod or some other device or item that was knocked down 25%.  I am absolutely disgusted with the type of person that would think "oh my Gosh I MUST get to that thing first!  The person behind me will help the person I just stepped on! MUST GET IT FIRST!!!!"  Now I know that I am exaggerating a a bit, but the point stands that it is sad that this happened, and that it happened so people could SHOP!!!!  

The following is an expert from the NY Times about it.

"The throng of Wal-Mart shoppers had been building all night, filling sidewalks and stretching across a vast parking lot at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y. At 3:30 a.m., the Nassau County police had to be called in for crowd control, and an officer with a bullhorn pleaded for order.

Tension grew as the 5 a.m. opening neared. Someone taped up a crude poster: “Blitz Line Starts Here.”

By 4:55, with no police officers in sight, the crowd of more than 2,000 had become a rabble, and could be held back no longer. Fists banged and shoulders pressed on the sliding-glass double doors, which bowed in with the weight of the assault. Six to 10 workers inside tried to push back, but it was hopeless.

Suddenly, witnesses and the police said, the doors shattered, and the shrieking mob surged through in a blind rush for holiday bargains. One worker, Jdimytai Damour, 34, was thrown back onto the black linoleum tiles and trampled in the stampede that streamed over and around him. Others who had stood alongside Mr. Damour trying to hold the doors were also hurled back and run over, witnesses said.

Some workers who saw what was happening fought their way through the surge to get to Mr. Damour, but he had been fatally injured, the police said. Emergency workers tried to revive Mr. Damour, a temporary worker hired for the holiday season, at the scene, but he was pronounced dead an hour later at Franklin Hospital Medical Center in Valley Stream.

Four other people, including a 28-year-old woman who was described as eight months pregnant, were treated at the hospital for minor injuries.

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Some shoppers who had seen the stampede said they were shocked. One of them, Kimberly Cribbs of Queens, said the crowd had acted like “savages.” Shoppers behaved badly even as the store was being cleared, she recalled.

“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, ‘I’ve been on line since yesterday morning,’ ” Ms. Cribbs told The Associated Press. “They kept shopping.” "  Here is the link to the article 

I leave it up to you all to decide what you think about that. 

Is it really that big of deal that this happened?  Is it really just an "accident?"  

P.s.  This is NOT Wal-Mart's Fault, and the Union in that area that is attacking Wal-Mart for this is pathetic for trying to capitalize on this persons death from uncivilized people that came to shop there.  too bad the people responsible can't be prosecuted because it will be to hard to prove anything.