Comments on: Police Eying Wal-Mart Trample Video

Could Charge NY Shoppers Who Stampeded A Long Island Store, Killing Worker

[godseyesore-2009]

cwbyht is EXACTLY what is wrong with this country. Selfish and vacuous little racist prick.

[cwbyht]

May God be with the family and hold them up in their grief. May God also grant the prosecution the ability to identify, charge and convict these people - NO plea deals, this insanity has got to stop somewhere. Our society has obviously hit rock bottom. Also disturbing is that the merchandizing executives are pleased with what they''''ve accomplished. Way past time to put Christ back in Christmas and stop making it a celebration of a market-based economy!


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Posted by littlebit123 at 09:46 AM : Nov 30, 2008



ESUS H CHRIST MORE WHINING LIBTARDS!! WHEN DOES IT END???

[jorgens234]

cwbyht, you know deep down how bad a person you are. Political views aside, your soul is toxic and your weak, diminutive mind corrupted. How dare you say such a terrible thing. One day you will look back on this situation, think of the horrible thing you wrote, and think, "I was so wrong." Even now you know. I''m trying not to sink down to your level, but f**k it: I hope you get hit by a truck. Murderous, hateful people like you make the world a miserable place.

[cwbyht]

And another thing about Wal-Mart.

Many of their stores were open on Thanksgiving. We need to consider that, in these troubling times, what does our society need more - a day at home with family and loved ones, sharing our thoughts with each other, and showing our appreciation for the blessings life may have given us, or another day of shopping?

Opening stores for extra hours or extra days will just give people more time to shop and not more money to spend - you''''re just spreading out the sales over a longer number of hours.

Wal-Mart has shown where their values lie. Does anybody remember when Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Sandy Koufax refused to pitch in the world series because he was celebrating Yom Kippur? Does anybody remember when retail stores didn''''t open on Sundays?
There are more important things in the world than making money, and maybe when more people see this than money won''''t be as big of a problem in our country as it seems to be now.


WAH! WAH! WAH! Stupid whing liberals driving our ecomomy into the ground!

[idnnsg]

"Just like your new Arabic/Muslim commie president represented slumblords ... all the while lying and claiming he was a civil rights attorney and teaching Constitutional Law, which he never did" - ignorant liar, Rowdydfw

Dear Idi.ot hick, Rowdy: There is absolutely NO DOUBT that Obama taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago. The only matter open to question is whether or not he was a "professor of Constitutional Law". His official title was "senior lecturer". Senior Lecturers are VIPs from government or industry who are invited to teach at the University and are too busy to consider full-time, tenure-track positions. However, according to the University, they are treated as professors.

Your ridiculous rant about the "Arabic/Muslim commie" hardly even deserves comment. You are a deluded, hate-filled, ignoramous. But even you know that Barack is NOT an Arab, NOT a Muslim, and NOT a communist. Your irrational fear has made you completely irrational. Your lies don''t even bear a passing resemblence to truth. You should probably seek professional medical treatment asap.

[omgru4real]

a very special post for ms1-1-1:

1. Hillary didn''t personally defend Wal-Mart, the firm she was a partner of did. And how many years ago was that? Certainly not current, as in claiming "hillary IS wal-marts attorney".

2. Please explain how being on a board of directors equals being a company''s attorney.

3. Please explain how "making sure someone is sued" equals being a company''s attorney.

I won''t bother asking about ringing in your ears, it''s apparent the only sound in there is crickets.

[jeannettelj]

TO RUSHLIMPDRUG. IT IS SO REFRESHING TO SEE SOMEONE MAKE AN APOLOGY. THANKS SO MUCH. HOPEFULLY THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS WILL BE FOUND AND THE FAMILY CAN HAVE SOME JUSTICE.

[omgru4real]

So you keep an eye on hillary''s bank account huh? interesting. you do have the internet right? you can spend about 5 seconds researching to find out if what you are saying is actually true before you say it, which its not, right? you don''t really care if you''re right, you just want to sound like you are, right? right.

[omgru4real]

ms1-1-1, if you think hillary is walmarts attorney you''re the one without a clue

[nothappyatall]

Once the cameras find out who did the trampling--put them in jail and his family needs to sue the azzes out of those people and Wal-mart.

Posted by liberalme

Doubt it will ever happen, those surv videos suck for quality and they usually skip frames to make stills, with heavy winter coats, hats, scarves etc on they arent going to identify anyone.
Doubt they will go thru 2,000 credit card recipts and interview 2,000 shoppers to compare their image with the cam''s

[nothappyatall]

" Shoppers stepped over the man on the ground and streamed into the store."

Note for the editor: the inside of the store has a FLOOR not ground, ground is OUTSIDE where you plant grass and onions in, inside is the FLOOR with tile or carpet, there is a difference- they taught that in grade school!

" The exact cause of death has not been determined. "

Oh wow thats hard to determine, let''s see, 100 people TRAMPLE over his body crushing his internal organs causing internal bleeding... he died of diabetic shock and epilepsy, that''s it!

[liberalme]

Sad these people never noticed they were stepping all over a human being so they could hurry up and buy and support "made in China" sweat shops.

Once the cameras find out who did the trampling--put them in jail and his family needs to sue the azzes out of those people and Wal-mart.

[rushlimpdrug]

Posted by jeannettelj at 11:42 AM

My bad.

My sincere apology to all.

[swin5]

I grew up in the heart of a big city neighborhood. I am 60 years old, so this neighborhood still had the main street, mom and pop, locally owned and operated stores typical of the late 1940''s and early 1950''s. This was when suburbia was just getting developed. These stores advertised by posting signs on their front windows or displaying the sale items with little tripod price tags standing by them. Sale prices were available to whomever saw the item in the window and came in to buy it. The sale ended when the last item was sold and the store owner removed the display from the window.

Also, at times, sales were impromptu. When there were layoffs at the local mills, merchants would realize when our parents couldn''t afford that much and would lower the asking price for the new jacket one of us kids needed. I even remember once when the store owner asked my mother if she could afford $3 instead of $4.

This type of retailing may seem quaint by today''s standards, but as I look back it seems that there is something both touching and personal about it that I don''t think we would ever find at a Wal-Mart.

And, by the way, when I went to the family doctor for treatment for an ongoing ear infection, he noticed that my shoes were in bad shape and told me not to pay him but to buy a new pair of shoes instead.

Funny, how I can remember my father telling me how things were better years ago and now that I''m his age I''m starting to feel the same way.

[jeannettelj]

TO RUSHLIMPDRUG. I SUGGEST THAT YOU READ THE STORY BEFORE YOU MAKE A STUPID COMMENT LIKE YOU DID. READ SWIN5''S COMMENT. THIS GUY WAS AN EMPLOYEE NOT A CUSTOMER AND WAL MART IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS TRAGEDY AND THE GREEDY FOLKS WHO WERE AFTER THE $9 INCREDIBLE HULK.

[rosaliy]

This is not a clear greed issue for the employee. He was doing his job and while the crowd was very likely out of control in their greed to get something that was available for a limited time at a special price, the retailers, in this case, WalMart Corporate, needs to shoulder responsibility for their employee''s wrongful death. In their rush to get that almighty dollar, these annual Black Friday specials are little more than incites to riot and civil discord. There are laws and ordinances governing this but corporations are never held responsible. Yes, people in the crowd, in their rush to get those deals, impatient to get into the store, probably gave the dead employee no thought at all. BUT it was the corporation that put that man in harms way. It happens a lot at Black Friday events. The company did not provide adequate security and crowd control because it would cut into those precious Black Friday profits. The result: a WalMart employee leaves a family who will have a Bleak Christmas without this man. The crowd is at fault too, don''t get me wrong here, but the instigator will not be held accountable by any but the family of the deceased IF they can win a wrongful death suit against WalMart.

[earache4]

Sorry about the stampede.....but at least I did get the last "Crowd Control Elmo".....

[mudflopper1]

Once again, I read how it''s either not the people%u2019s fault, or the fault of the store operator that this man died. I hear that the folks caught on tape on this incident will have charges brought against them. I am also sure they will get off with a light sentence because of the cattle stampede attitude which is created by the store management. The store management will be sued for this mentality and it will be excused and tossed back into the lap of the individual.
So no one will be to blame. No one will have a consequence for this action. No one will be held accountable for the death of a human being.
Is this what we voted for with the Obama campaign? Is this the change? We give up on personal responsibility for our actions? Manners and consideration of a fellow human is negated by the sale?
Is this the lesson of a collapsed economy? That to be the first to purchase some built up ideal of a sale item through marketing is more valuable than the life of a fellow human?
When will people get the hint that the %u201Cthing%u201D that is important isn%u2019t sold at a store?

[swin5]

To rushlimprug

The man killed was NOT a customer - he was an employee who was opening the front doors. He was doing his job, and given today''s economy, he probably needed that job.

I was caught in a similar situation years ago. I taught school and one of school''s security guards and I were going to a local recreation center where our school''s basketball team was playing a game. We showed up at the front doors and before the doors were opened, a large number of kids attempting to crash the gate came in behind us. The front doors and walls of the rec center were plate glass and the doors opened outward. It was a dangerous situation that we could not get out of. Only our size (adults versus high school kids) and the fact that there weren''t that many crashers kept it from getting worse.

So, ''rushlim...'' I would urge you to not rush to a judgment and not fall into the trap of blaming the victim for the crime. Believe me, under the right conditions, such an unfortunate incident can happen to you or someone you care about and, if it does, I don''t think your attitude would be the same.

[rushlimpdrug]

The reality is that this man was
a victim of his own greed.

It is true that people in a crowd
have the CHOICE to leave a place
where the situation seems dangerous.

But his NEED for that $9 "Incredible
Hulk" made him choose to place himself
in the middle of this dangerous situation.

He could not have been so stupid as to
not know he was in a dangerous situation.

This may sound cold but it is true.

Everyone have a safe and merry Christmas.