hey, he knew the risk he was taking. if he didnt want to be trampled to death, he shouldn't have went to that store and stood in line all night.

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hey, he knew the risk he was taking. if he didnt want to be trampled to death, he shouldn't have went to that store and stood in line all night.

It was someone who worked there.

Another couple of deaths due to Black Friday.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/28/Two_killed_in_California_Toys_R_Us/UPI-80661227919299/

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It was someone who worked there.

Another couple of deaths due to Black Friday.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/28/Two_killed_in_California_Toys_R_Us/UPI-80661227919299/

Saw that one on the new's also, who the **** brings a gun to a kids toy shop just to shoot someone else with a gun in a kids toy shop...

Yeah, I heard this on CNN yesterday.

@Dark:
Friday black is horrible?

I wish I was there to smack people with a baseball bat for stampeding. No, **** that, I'd want a pipe bomb to kill all of them.

This kind of herd mentality is sickening.


Maybe a cattle prod would be more appropriate.

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I still don't understand why this is so sad, or why this pisses you guys off.

Why black Friday is sad: It's the day marking the beginning of christmas season, and what you do is buy stuff. I cannot think of a sader way to mark the coming of christmas. Seriously, buying stuff? I'm usually not so very "we humans are oh so materialisitic, it's destroying usalalalala," but I actually do live in this grand illusion that christmas is a time of love and joy, and therefore it saddens me seeing it celebrated like this.

Why a man being trampled to death by people obsessed with buying stuff at discount prices is sad: I'm not sure if an explanation should be needed for this, but here goes: A man died a completely unnecessary death.This guy had a family and people that loved him. People whose christmas, and probably life, now is ruined. Why? Because we like buying stuff. Especially when it's cheap.
I get that you are not mourning his death. It doesn't affect me much on a personal level either, but that you fail to realise that this is a sad thing on any level beats me. How can you be completely indifferent to the death of another, even if this another was a man you would most likely never have met or even heard of unless he died this way?

(Also, I know that I made the huge assumtion that just because he was a human being he had a family and people that loved him, I realise that this a horrid generalisation of the human race, and I apologise if it offended any of you.)

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Yeah, I heard this on CNN yesterday.

@Dark:
Friday black is horrible?

viernes negro sounds better than

negro viernes in spanish

Bitch there were sales to be had. That guy had it comin anyways...


(on a more serious note, the union blames walmart itself for the death)
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/29/black.friday.death/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

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Bitch there were sales to be had. That guy had it comin anyways...


(on a more serious note, the union blames walmart itself for the death)
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/29/black.friday.death/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Blame walmart? I don't think they're really at fault here...

FAIL .


Honestly, if you're buying stuff, why join a giant stampede? Why not use, say, the Internet?



Meh.

My sister got an mp4 on the day before black friday for around 20 bucks, ON THE INTERNET.

2 of the customers who trampled the guy are now suing walmart for 2 million dollars due to some injuries they received.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/02/walmart.trampling.suit/index.html

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2 of the customers who trampled the guy are now suing walmart for 2 million dollars due to some injuries they received.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/02/walmart.trampling.suit/index.html

That is so ridiculous. I hope there is a countersuit by the police department for wasting the court's time.