Nov 29 2008
Need a Bike Ride
What does it say about so many Americans when they stampede stores on Black Friday? What does it say when one groups stampede killed a 38 year old man? I for one do not support or participate in this mayhem.
The New York Times is reporting: Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death
The shoppers broke the doors off their hinges and surged in, toppling a 34-year-old temporary employee, Jdimypai Damour, 34, of Jamaica, Queens, who had been waiting with other workers in the store’s entryway.
People did not stop to help the employee as he lay on the ground, and they pushed against other Wal-Mart workers who were trying to aid Mr. Damour. The crowd kept running into the store even after the police arrived, jostling and pushing officers who were trying to perform CPR, the police said.
“They were like a stampede,” said Nassau Det. Lt. Michael Fleming. “Hundreds of people walked past him, over him or around him.”
To those shoppers I want to ask, “For you to get your bargain, was it worth a man dying?”
I try to stay on topics which relate somehow to bicycling, but I could not resist commenting on something I find so appalling about our need it now and want it all society. Could it be the American financial machine would not be in the mess it is in if it were not for the greed and need in our culture? Do you really need to have it all? At what cost to the economy, environment, and your mental health?
I need to go for a bike ride.
Welcome to American…the land of greed and lack of personal responsibility. That article illustrates just why I avoid the malls and big box stores. Personally I think every person that entered those doors prior to the normal opening time should be charged with breaking, entering and accessory to murder. Wouldn’t teach most of them anything…
Aaron
A truely frightening story, from the land of the free, where everyone has so much, in fact, have everything, what is the world coming to?