Black Friday Death: Wal-Mart Shoppers Trample Worker to Death (Video)

So, first you celebrate Thanksgiving by giving thanks for what you value in life, then you go shopping for some more things and trample a man to death. No wonder they call it Black Friday.

Early this morning, some 200 Wal-Mart shoppers "physically broke down the doors," knocked a 34 year old Wal-Mart greeter to the floor, and then stampeded over his body until the man was dead. For this, the man no doubt received the usual Wal-Mart poverty wages. For an encore, the shoppers savages knocked down a pregnant woman. Reportedly, she lost the baby the 28-year-old pregnant woman was sent to the hospital.

Who needs terrorists when the culture has gone stark raving berserk with greedy capitalism?


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."



"They kept shopping. It's not right. They're savages . . "
AP: A police statement said shortly after 5 a.m., a throng of shoppers “physically broke down the doors, knocking (the worker) to the ground.” Police also said a 28-year-old pregnant woman was taken to a hospital for observation . .
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Photo above is of the crowd before the stampede and is from a cell phone: Thousands wait for Long Island Wal-Mart doors to open on Black Friday before stampeding through the doors and trampling a worker to death.

Update #1, New York Times: 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.

Update #2 from Boing Boing: Union responds and visit the website walmartcrimereport.com to review other incidents of Wal-mart not providing a safe work and shopping experience.

Update #3, More Black Friday Deaths: 2 gunmen kill each other in shootout at Toys 'R' Us in Palm Desert

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