FROM FOX NEWS:
"Black Friday took a grim turn when a New York Wal-Mart employee died after bargain hunters broke down the doors to the store, pushing him to the ground.
The 34-year-old male employee was pronounced dead an hour after shoppers breached the doors to the shopping center in Valley Stream, Long Island, about 5 a.m. Friday and knocked him down, police said.
"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," Jimmy Overby, the man's 43-year-old co-worker, told the New York Daily News. "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."
A 28-year-old pregnant woman was also taken in for observation and three other shoppers suffered minor injuries during the incident, police said. The pregnant woman and the unborn baby were reported to be OK, said Sgt. Anthony Repalone, a Nassau County police spokesman"
I won't shop on Black Friday. I spent too many years working RETAIL on that ominous week day.
The above mentioned TRUE STORY is beyond ridiculous. Can you imagine the commentary given to spouses when some of the 200 hundred shoppers returned home?
"Honey, I got that 42 inch wide HDTV you wanted...oh and the winter coat Sarah needed. I saved 20% too! Yeah, it really was a brutal mad-dash through the doors though, I think I might have stepped on the Walmart employee --- he should have moved the heck out of the way!!! ....the receipt says we saved $52 dollars and 47 cents.....I did good...didn't I honey?"
What are we, as a nation of very blessed people, doing??? Shouldn't we all step back a minute and ask ourselves that question? It sure enlightened me to the irony of the holiday ---- get your Turkey with all the trimmings and you mustn't forget to trample that man on your way into the store.
"Black Friday took a grim turn when a New York Wal-Mart employee died after bargain hunters broke down the doors to the store, pushing him to the ground.
The 34-year-old male employee was pronounced dead an hour after shoppers breached the doors to the shopping center in Valley Stream, Long Island, about 5 a.m. Friday and knocked him down, police said.
"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," Jimmy Overby, the man's 43-year-old co-worker, told the New York Daily News. "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."
A 28-year-old pregnant woman was also taken in for observation and three other shoppers suffered minor injuries during the incident, police said. The pregnant woman and the unborn baby were reported to be OK, said Sgt. Anthony Repalone, a Nassau County police spokesman"
I won't shop on Black Friday. I spent too many years working RETAIL on that ominous week day.
The above mentioned TRUE STORY is beyond ridiculous. Can you imagine the commentary given to spouses when some of the 200 hundred shoppers returned home?
"Honey, I got that 42 inch wide HDTV you wanted...oh and the winter coat Sarah needed. I saved 20% too! Yeah, it really was a brutal mad-dash through the doors though, I think I might have stepped on the Walmart employee --- he should have moved the heck out of the way!!! ....the receipt says we saved $52 dollars and 47 cents.....I did good...didn't I honey?"
What are we, as a nation of very blessed people, doing??? Shouldn't we all step back a minute and ask ourselves that question? It sure enlightened me to the irony of the holiday ---- get your Turkey with all the trimmings and you mustn't forget to trample that man on your way into the store.
Saving 20 or 30 percent is now the going rate on human life?
GOOD BLACK FRIDAY TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY!
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