[jimmydean]

Working at WalMart = suck
Working at Walmart on Black Friday = Mega Suck
Trampled to death while working at WalMart on Black Friday = Eternal Hell

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081128/ap_on_re_us/wal_mart_death

"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," co-worker Jimmy Overby, 43, told the 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."

 

[drkenan]

Insane.

 

[4xBoy]

Classic, sad, Probably a policy change at Walmarts in the future.

 

[Da Peach]

I wonder if anyone is going to sue Walmart for being exposed to a trampling related death. I imagine it would be quite traumatic. And profitable. Not to mention the savings on black friday. It's lose-win-win.

 

[JohnE]

That is almost too ridiculous to be true...but really sick all the same. Nicely done, Amercian consumers so addled by reality tv that they must have a 50 inch plasma.

Morons.

 

[MMike]

Friggin animals.....

 

[MMike]

And black friday is racist........

 

[loco-gringo]

I told an old man when he mentioned that they announced "ground rules" at a local Walmart this morning prior to 5 am that people at Walmart prior to 5 am were probably not smart enough to follow rules.

 

[skinny mike]

certain black friday deals should come with mandatory sterilizations to keep stupid people from breeding.

 

[jimmydean]

certain black friday deals should come with mandatory sterilizations to keep stupid people from breeding.

Use it as a sting operation like they do for warrants. Hold a fake black Friday sale on limited edition NASCAR TV combos.

 

[drkenan]

This makes me want to quit Christmas.

 

[Westy]

Was the Who playing inside the store?

 

[skinny mike]

This makes me want to quit Christmas.

you could just turn jew.

 

[ire]

Trampled to death while working at WalMart on Black Friday = Eternal Bliss

Fixed. He was able to escape the hell that is his life

 

[RideRMB]

That guy obviously doesn't know what the real definition of bum rushed is...

 

[stinkyboy]

Was the Who playing inside the store?

 

[McGRP01]

How bad can life get? Want me to tell you?

 

[Greyhound]

Thank goodness somebody acknowledged this bit of comedy gold. Rep coming to the both of you.

 

[Da Peach]

Third base!

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

My younger brother works in the electronics dept. at Sears and made about $7,000 in commissions today. Not bad for an 18 year old kid.


Survival of the fittest, bitches!


Although that is sucky/sad.

 

[Austin Bike]

certain black friday deals should come with mandatory sterilizations to keep stupid people from breeding.

I still believe the world needs my invention - the norplant gun.

In the right hands it can solve a lot of problems.

 

[Icantdrive65]

Commercialized Christmas at its best. That's the spirit!
Add the shootings at a Palm Desert Toys r' Us and we have a winner.

 

[JohnE]

I still believe the world needs my invention - the norplant gun.

In the right hands it can solve a lot of problems.

I would be willing to finance...we could even have branch out into a reality tv show. Kind of like the old "Mutual of Omahas Wild Kingdom". Jim could stalk the trailer parks, in search of taggable trash...

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pKv6RcXa2UI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pKv6RcXa2UI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

 

[Damo]

And this mentality happens in the US every year???

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

And this mentality happens in the US every year???

Way more often than that.

The average US consumer is hell bent on buying cheap plastic crap imported from China. They will do anything for a bargain, even kill.

They have bargained shopped their way out of jobs, helped strengthen the Chinese economy and become unwitting proponents of slavery.

 

[maddog17]

i hope that persons family sues WalMart and wins. what a-hole manager would give the door keys to a temp worker to open the store on black friday?!?!? and if the crowd was that crazy, why again didn't a manager go out and tell them all to chill out?!?!? i hope all those idiots who trampled that person realize what it is they did. to add insult to injury (well in this case death), the cops said they weren't even sure anyone would be charged with the death!!! HOW F'ed UP IS THAT!!! they should find all those people and charge them each with some form of murder or manslaughter. this would be a great case to use as a precident for any future a-holes that decide to trample someone over some stupid pre-xmas sale.

 

[DirtMcGirk]

HOW F'ed UP IS THAT!!! they should find all those people and charge them each with some form of murder or manslaughter. this would be a great case to use as a precident for any future a-holes that decide to trample someone over some stupid pre-xmas sale.

Sorry Charlie, you can't charge a mob.

For further reading on the "mob mentality defense" check out Feasibility and Admissibility of Mob Mentality Defenses
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 108, No. 5 (Mar., 1995), pp. 1111-1126

 

[maddog17]

Sorry Charlie, you can't charge a mob.

For further reading on the "mob mentality defense" check out Feasibility and Admissibility of Mob Mentality Defenses
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 108, No. 5 (Mar., 1995), pp. 1111-1126

forgot you were a lawyer. well that kinda sucks that no one can be held responsible for their actions. so the next time a team in Boston wins a championship i can just run apesh*t over Boston and kill people with the mob and i'm covered? not that i'd do it, but it seems a tad stupid that i couldn't be charged with sometype of murder or manslaughter

 

[geargrrl]

And this mentality happens in the US every year???

Yes. Scary isn't it?

I think there's a whole separate thread devoted to "what did YOU get on Black Friday?".

 

[ire]

forgot you were a lawyer. well that kinda sucks that no one can be held responsible for their actions. so the next time a team in Boston wins a championship i can just run apesh*t over Boston and kill people with the mob and i'm covered? not that i'd do it, but it seems a tad stupid that i couldn't be charged with sometype of murder or manslaughter

It doesn't say that at all....the argument is that you should be less accountable for your actions. If you kill someone they will hold you responsible, but for something like rushing forward over someone they would probably find you not accountable. Plus, as people start rushing forward if you try to stop you run the risk of being trampled as well

 

[DirtMcGirk]

It doesn't say that at all....the argument is that you should be less accountable for your actions. If you kill someone they will hold you responsible, but for something like rushing forward over someone they would probably find you not accountable. Plus, as people start rushing forward if you try to stop you run the risk of being trampled as well

Essentially it goes back to the concept that "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." to bum a phrase from Tommy Lee Jones.

People running as a heard do horrible things, and the idea of the mob mentality defense comes down that we are still big, dumb animals hell bent on getting our plasma screens.

 

[ire]

...we are still big, dumb animals hell bent on getting our plasma screens.

I was envisioning fat people in sweat pants running towards the buffet, but big screen TVs are important too :biggrin:

 

[DirtMcGirk]

When life becomes a board game, or vice versa.

 

[manimal]

Sorry Charlie, you can't charge a mob.

For further reading on the "mob mentality defense" check out Feasibility and Admissibility of Mob Mentality Defenses
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 108, No. 5 (Mar., 1995), pp. 1111-1126

our two local super wally worlds hired 2 off duty officers to work each location 0800-midnight from black friday until christmas. kinda sad they need us to keep the mongo's from destroying the store...but hey...easy money for me!

 

[CBJ]

Mongo - rep!

 

[jerseydirt]

That guy obviously doesn't know what the real definition of bum rushed is...

I thought I was the only one who said bum rush. +rep

 

[1453]

apprently the guy that died was from Haiti, and the majority of the shoppers that broken down the door were African American.

Black on black crime gotta stop.













*too soon?*

 

[TN]

My black Friday was white.

 

[sanjuro]

I like what my buddy from that area responded with:

Long Islanders are a special breed let me tell you