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On the Record  Posts: 5491 Joined: 13 Aug 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1427 Joined: 3 Apr 2008     |
i agree with ya completely |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4611 Joined: 25 Feb 2008     |
If only, been on the news pages of the BBC and all. In the meantime, thoughts and prayers for Mr Damour's family. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 357 Joined: 29 Nov 2008    | -_-...... Christ, we need to stop this black Friday crap. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 75 Joined: 8 May 2008     | I just wonder what the hell did they want to get from the shop that was worth waiting hours in a line, vandalizing the entrance and disregarding safety of others and self. An IPod? Killing in the name of a religion or a political ideology is crazy, but killing for inanimate objects you don't need anyway is just beyond fucking words. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 357 Joined: 29 Nov 2008 |
/completely 100% agree with you |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2924 Joined: 30 Jun 2008  | God, this makes me sick to my stomach. How greedy people in our society have become.....
As if anyone gives a crap, especially since someone died because of your greed.
Not all of it, Thank god. |
Muckraker  Posts: 347 Joined: 7 Jun 2008    | It's time like this I'm glad that I own GTA IV......so I can kill the fucking idiots that inhabit New York. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1813 Joined: 8 Apr 2008     |
Beaten to it. Apparently murder isn't quite as bad as theft now? It's really just too disgusting to comment on, this is one of the few times I wouldn't mind a literal interpretation of "eye for an eye". May the spirit of that poor employee haunt every product purchased by those jackasses. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2849 Joined: 8 Jul 2008   | "When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, 'I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" said one shopper who was shocked by the savage display. Do I have to say anything?! |
On the Record  Posts: 5788 Joined: 9 Jul 2008   |
Seriously? A)the savings can't be worth that. B)How do you not care that someone's dead?
I know, same with me. When a friend of mine told me "Hey, some guy at a wall-mart got crushed on Black Friday" my first thought (besides the usual "oh, that's horrible" stuff)was "Didn't that happen last year? Or the year before? Or when the iPhone came out?" EDIT:
The scary part is, taking Nico out of the equation, Liberty City is better than this. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 609 Joined: 12 Sep 2008  | they broke the door down and trampled people so they could BUY STUFF??? MORONS! JERKS! IDIOTS! Intelligence isn't expensive--go get some. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 210 Joined: 2 Jan 2008   |
Ditto. I've never heard of such an incident down under though, thank god. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3644 Joined: 3 Apr 2008    | hmm.... how much is a nuke? |
On the Record  Posts: 6226 Joined: 10 Mar 2008    | My sympathy goes out to the family and the deceased. With the economy in the toilet, I'm not surprised that there were some mobs, but it's definately to far if someone gets killed because of a TV that's 70% off or something. If I had any respect in humanity, I'd lose alot of it I'd tell you that. |
BANNED  Posts: 6317 Joined: 29 Nov 2007    | Sadly, and this was purely coincidental at the time, but when my friend told me about this I vomited. Literally. Not metaphorically or anything like that, I totally spewed. But had I not been sick at the time, I probably would have anyway. Our government needs to have regulations on this kind of shit. User was banned for: The hypocrisy is KILLING me.. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3317 Joined: 1 Nov 2007    | Jesus...I'm really not sure what to say to this. This truly is disgusting. My hearts go out to the friends and family of the man who was killed. Seriously, a bargain is worth more than a human life? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2369 Joined: 14 Sep 2008   | I lost my faith in humanity a long time ago but this still shocked me. I hope that nobody will ever make this Black Friday stuff again. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 445 Joined: 1 Feb 2008   | I think there is some of the responsibility for this tragedy being over looked here:
The employer and managers responsible for sending those under paid, no benefits workers to 'reinforce' should be criminally charged and fired. Walmart should also be investigated to see if this is standard practice to send employees into harm's way. Common sense should tell you that if you have a pressing mob outside your front doors, you get people away from the doors and tell the crowd to get orderly or disperse ... or there will be no shopping period, we'll just turn out the lights and walk out the back door till the cops take care of the mob. This isn't just a story about the mob of shoppers being greedy and irresponsible, its about the business being that way too. And not only that, but apparently there were police present? Why weren't they doing their jobs and calling in the riot police, ambulance, and demanding people get orderly or disperse? There are all kinds of hands with blood on them with things like this. I hope some people who are running businesses read this: don't even try to do business in situations like this. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2893 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 | If the people running Wal-Mart have any sense of decency, they'll do something like not perpetuate the shopping frenzy for the rest of this year's holiday season and maybe next year as well by having no special deals and no holiday hours. But I know they'll never do anything like this, they just care about raking in that dough. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2633 Joined: 30 Sep 2008  |
No one will. I mean this should be one of those moments where a society stands back and re-evaluates itself, but no one will and crap like this will likely happen again. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 985 Joined: 20 Oct 2008   | They should have only allowed a small amount of people in at a time to avoid this very thing. I hope the employee's family sues Walmart for this. Edit: Missed the part about how they broke in early. My basic sentiments remain; Walmart should have done more to protect it's employees. I also hope those worthless, pathetic sheep got what they were shopping for. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 151 Joined: 26 Oct 2008  | Thanks heavens I take residence in Texas where there are usually no more than 50 people at any one given store (even Wal-Mart) waiting on black friday... Yeah, we had a slavery issue a number of years ago, but at least nobody got trampled for a Cuisinart. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2747 Joined: 23 Apr 2008  | I heard about this. I saw it in the news. This happened about a town away from where I worked. This is sad. Words cannot describe the hate I have toward all of those bastards. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2770 Joined: 13 Feb 2008   |
Ever read Among the Thugs by Bill Buford? Talks about mob mentality and all that. Excellent reading. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 93 Joined: 13 Nov 2007 |
I really hope they do. It's disgusting what has happened. Guy was just trying to make a buck for the holidays, likely to buy his own gifts for his family and friends, and this happens. And that people didn't want to leave and really didn't care that there was a man killed...I don't even have the words to say how heartless you'd have to be.quote] Really? You hope that specific people are punished for the actions of a MOB. It's wrong that he died, but bringing a few people to the sacrificial alter to atone for the crimes of many is in no way justice. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4148 Joined: 23 Apr 2008  |
Indeed - we've had the odd incident of injury, but its rare. Further, I believe the one case I heard of was of a store chain that had gone bankrupt and was shutting down (and people were ...eager... to claim their orders (furniture, I think it was). |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4148 Joined: 23 Apr 2008 |
QFT |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 606 Joined: 26 Sep 2008   |
Wow, I didn't even think of this. You're right, businesses and inaction on the part of police are just as guilty. I think on Black Friday police should be given the order to use tear gas and beat rioters senseless, and to shoot to kill if necessary. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2747 Joined: 23 Apr 2008 |
Umm... |
Muckraker  Posts: 310 Joined: 17 Oct 2008  |
That's because Fiction must be believable. This, an unbelievable situation is fit purly for real life. I used to work at Wal-Mart, for just over two years and worked two Black Fridays. This is not even the slightest shock to me. It's detestable, but the first thing through my head was: "Only one?" -Link Kadeshi |
Beat Writer  Posts: 195 Joined: 25 Nov 2008 |
You can't tell me that you dont think people are getting even more stupid then they used to be. Sure, I feel terrible for the family of the victim, but I feel that he's in a better place, away from these roaming consumer knobs. |
BANNED  Posts: 2505 Joined: 19 Aug 2008 | Thats just plain depressing, I can't imagine wanting to get into a store so bad as to break the doors and trample an employee to death, surely someone could have stopped when they, ohh I don't know... STEP ON A PERSON! Like honestley mobs are all mentally challenged. User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2770 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 |
See, that is why on Black Friday I go to stores not to shop, but to try to cheer up the sullen, downtrodden retail employees. |
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This is disgusting. I normally defend capitalism when it is under attack from people who say that the world has become overly materialistic, but I can't do it for this. I cannot defend the murder of an innocent employee who was just trying to make some money to feed his family. Because that's what this is: murder. These people knew they were killing a man, knew that he was dead, and they kept shopping. I hope their Christmas is overshadowed by the pall of death that they have wrought upon the family of this man. I hope their Christmas dinner rots in their mouths. This is unforgivable.