We Are SOOOOOOO Fucked...
Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede
BY JOE GOULD
DAILY NEWS WRITER (Updated Friday, November 28th 2008, 10:19 AM)
A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.
The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.
Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.
"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back."
Nassau County Police are still investigating and would not confirm the witness accounts. The Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. Police did say there were several injuries but weren't more specific.
Jessica Keyes was among the shoppers. She told the Daily News she saw a woman knocked down just a few feet from the dying worker.
"When the paramedics came, she said 'I'm pregnant,'" Keyes said.
Paramedics treated the woman inside the store and then, according to Keys, told the woman:
"There's nothing we can do. The baby is gone."
Before police shut down the store, eager shoppers streamed past emergency crews as they worked furiously to save the store clerk's life.
"They were working on him, but you could see he was dead, said Halcyon Alexander, 29. "People were still coming through."
Only a few stopped.
"They're savages," said shopper Kimberly Cribbs, 27. "It's sad. It's terrible."
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UPDATE: Via Ed Encho, commenting at WWL:
*[new] Killer Deals: Update - 2 killed at Toys R Us (0.00 / 0)Yup.
Is this a sick country or what?
2 people killed inside Calif. Toys R Us
Breaking News
updated 7 minutes ago
PALM DESERT, Calif. - Authorities said two people have been killed inside a Toys "R" Us store in Southern California.
Riverside County sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez said Palm Desert police got a call saying shots had been fired inside the store Friday. NBC News affiliate KMIR reported an argument between two teenagers preceded the shooting. A third person, a male, apparently pulled out a gun.
Gutierrez said two people are dead inside, but further details were not immediately available.
That's my motherfuckin Guitar Hero Bitch!!!
Jesus Fucking Christ!
EE
Might this lust for consumption in some way presage the coming famine; in some strange, deep, dna-level way, are we the living, storing up fat against the coming shortages? I am not a biologist (though I have played one on tv), but maybe whatever it is that prompts the lemmings to jump also prompts Americans to shop.
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