Well this grabbed my attention this past holiday weekend to see a walmart employee get trampled by eager shoppers at 5am trying to save a buck on their holiday shopping. This Walmart in Long Island is located about 30 mins from my house which made me especially interested in the case. Shoppers allegedly broke down the WalMart doors killing a 34 year old employee and injurying 4 others including a pregnant woman.
Perhaps the most obscene aspect of this tragedy is that, when the store was forced to close for several hours – because of the death – customers “shouted angrily” and “kept on shopping”.
Another incident of the American Dream, the disregard of a human life, in order to perhaps save $100 on a television. Where does a society lose such control to trample a person to death and not just one person step on his body as he lay on the ground but rather hundreds. What is sooooo… ironic as the American self portrayal of “the land of freedom and opportunity”, whist in their attempts of achieving the American Dream, they have considerably contributed to the Global economic crisis, by being allowed to purchase homes, cars and vacations that are well beyond their economic capabilities.
Then in order to get a good buy.. feel it is morally consciousable to trample a man to death… Wow… in order to quote Walt Disney ” the land of a million dreams”? thanks but no thanks.
3 comments:
thats mustve been some kinda sale. but foreal that is really sad that people these days will care more about money than a human life. how could you walk on somebody just to spend money. what are we coming in this world today.
I thought that lady in the red shirt on her knees was a midget when I first looked at that picture.
i worked black friday and saw a lot of this. ridiculous
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