[Vision2020] Wal-Mart Worker Dies After Shoppers Knock Him Down

[Tom Hansen]

I agree, Keely.

Until retail outlets, whether it be Wal-Mart or Target or Staples 
or . . . , assume some responsibility and begin to more closely monitor 
such behavior, it will only get worse.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> 
> This is just really awful -- you have to wonder if any of the shoppers in
t> his stampeding herd stopped to help him up or anything.  Equally 
troubling
> is the fact that most of them, even knowing what happened, continued
to>  shop.
> 
> What does this say about our culture?  Nothing good, and nothing that
eve> n remotely hearkens back to the celebration of Jesus' birth.  
> 
> Keely
> http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > From: thansen at moscow.com
> > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:47:53 +0000
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Wal-Mart Worker Dies After Shoppers Knock Him 
Down
> > 
> > >From ABC News at:
> > 
> > http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=6353623
> >   
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> > 
> > Wal-Mart Worker Dies After Shoppers Knock Him Down
> > Wal-Mart worker dies after being knocked down by throng of shoppers at
NY>  
> > store
> > By COLLEEN LONG
> > 
> > ---------
> > 
> > http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/abc_wal_mart_violence_081128_mn.jpg
> > Police say a Wal-Mart worker has died after being trampled by a throng
of>  
> > unruly shoppers shortly after the Long Island store opened Friday.
> >  
> > ---------
> >  
> > A worker was killed in the crush Friday after a throng of shoppers
eager>  
> > for post-Thanksgiving bargains burst through the doors at a suburban 
Wal-
> > Mart, authorities said.
> > 
> > At least four other people were injured, and the store in Valley
Stream>  on 
> > Long Island was closed.
> > 
> > Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in Bentonville, Ark., called the incident a
"tra> gic 
> > situation" and said the employee came from a temporary agency and was 
> > doing maintenance work at the store.
> > 
> > "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
figh> t 
> > people off my back."
> > 
> > Nassau County police said the 34-year-old worker was taken to a
hospital>  
> > where he was pronounced dead at about 6 a.m. The man's name was not 
> > released and the cause of death was not immediately known.
> > 
> > A police statement said shortly after the store's 5 a.m. opening
time,>  
> > shoppers "physically broke down the doors, knocking (the worker) to
the>  
> > ground."
> > 
> > A metal portion of the door was crumpled like an accordion.
> > 
> > Shoppers around the country lined up early outside stores in the 
annual 
> > bargain hunting ritual known as Black Friday. Many stores open early
and>  
> > stay open late, and some of the most dramatic bargains are available
in>  
> > limited quantities.
> > 
> > Among the bargains offered by Wal-Mart for Friday were Samsung 50-inch 
> > high definition Plasma TVs for less than $800.
> > 
> > Witnesses told the Daily News that before the store was closed, eager 
> > shoppers streamed past emergency crews as they worked furiously to 
save 
> > the worker's life.
> > 
> > "They were working on him, but you could see he was dead," said
Halcy> on 
> > Alexander, 29. "People were still coming through."
> > 
> > A 28-year-old pregnant woman was taken to a hospital for observation,
a> nd 
> > she and the unborn baby were both reported to be OK, said Sgt.
Anthony>  
> > Repalone, a Nassau County police spokesman. Four or five other people 
> > suffered minor injuries, he said.
> > 
> > Ellen Davis, a spokeswoman at National Retail Federation, said the
gr> oup 
> > knew of no other incident where a retail employee has died working on
the>  
> > day after Thanksgiving.
> > 
> > Wal-Mart is working closely with police, company spokesman Dan
Fogleman>  
> > said.
> > 
> > "The safety and security of our customers and associates is our top 
> > priority," Fogleman said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with them and 
> > their families at this difficult time."
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Seasons Greetings, Moscow.
> > 
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho

"For a lapse Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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