A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.
The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.
Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.
"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "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."
What makes humans act in this manner? I just don't understand this kind of behavior.
Does anyone remember the reason for the season? Apparently not.
I smell olives.
And so it goes.
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a mob is an ugly thing; it can do all sorts of evil and everyone within it can say that they did not do it.
ReplyDeleteugly indeed.