Footage from Wal-Mart stampede
As you may have heard, a security guard was trampled to death at a Wal-Mart in suburban New York because of bunch of morons who had camped out all night waiting for the sale couldn't wait the few extra minutes for the doors to open, so they broke them off the hinges. After the guard was pronounced dead, customers would not leave the store even though they had been asked to do so. No, getting a few dollars off their Christmas presents was more important!
Someone took out their cameraphone and filmed the paramedics trying to resuscitate the security guard. The footage was shown on a television news programme. This may not be everyone's cup of tea, but look at it and remember how stupid human beings with a herd mentality can be. A man is dead because people just HAD to to get their cheap trash RIGHT NOW or else CHRISTMAS WOULD BE RUINED and their CHILDREN WOULD STARVE and everything would fade into DESPAIR.
The sick thing? You can hear people laughing in this video clip. I hate humans sometimes.
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KersaI Missive Free Michael Shields! with Monday's Liverpool Echo, Sun 30 Nov 2008, 0:16,
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News article about it:
www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/business/29walmart.html?bl&ex=1228107600&en=95e0984e8f92cc7c&ei=5087%0A
Absolutely pathetic. And because he was a temporary employee, and Wal-mart isn't exactly known for being all that great to its employees, his family probably won't get any compensation.
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KersaI Missive Free Michael Shields! with Monday's Liverpool Echo, Sun 30 Nov 2008, 0:23,
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What's worse?
someone actually filming it or a news channel actually showing it?
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Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Sun 30 Nov 2008, 0:51,
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Hopefully it'll shock people into realising THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE THAN GETTING A FEW DOLLARS OFF YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
Like human life.
They probably should have waited for permission from the next of kin, though.
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KersaI Missive Free Michael Shields! with Monday's Liverpool Echo, Sun 30 Nov 2008, 0:52,
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And as if THAT wasn't bad enough....
....They take it a step further in California.
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,458890,00.html
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