It was an interesting Thanksgiving holiday. After eating turkey and watching three horrible football games, we also learned why Black Friday is a fitting name. This past Friday, a crowd in a shopping frenzy trampled a Walmart employee to death. Although I wasn’t there, the store probably looked more like Spain’s running of the bulls. Customers were more concerned about buying televisions and blenders than the safety of a store employee. A witness said that shoppers acted like savages.
Black Friday is supposed to be the day stores get out of the red. But not the same red that looks like blood. Although I have never shopped on Black Friday, I have heard many horror stories about the busiest shopping day of the year. I am sure that trampling people to death should not be a part of Black Friday.
People wait out in the cold for long hours while stores mark down their prices. Once the doors open, it becomes a free-for-all as people bum rush the store in a bargain searching frenzy. The entire experience can be compared to a wrestling battle royal.
The police are now trying to figure out who trampled the worker to death. When he turned in his application, he probably never expected to die on a filthy Walmart floor. It will be interesting to learn the charges. Will it be manslaughter? Or can they charge people for acting like ignorant savages?
Annually, some media source will publish the top ten most dangerous places in the world. Shopping at Walmart should easily make the next list.
Black Friday is supposed to be the day stores get out of the red. But not the same red that looks like blood. Although I have never shopped on Black Friday, I have heard many horror stories about the busiest shopping day of the year. I am sure that trampling people to death should not be a part of Black Friday.
People wait out in the cold for long hours while stores mark down their prices. Once the doors open, it becomes a free-for-all as people bum rush the store in a bargain searching frenzy. The entire experience can be compared to a wrestling battle royal.
The police are now trying to figure out who trampled the worker to death. When he turned in his application, he probably never expected to die on a filthy Walmart floor. It will be interesting to learn the charges. Will it be manslaughter? Or can they charge people for acting like ignorant savages?
Annually, some media source will publish the top ten most dangerous places in the world. Shopping at Walmart should easily make the next list.
1 comment:
I have been wrestling (no pun intended) with this subject since last Friday. This whole concept is a riot waiting to happen. A Walmart near where I live in NC had an incident where two "men" fought viciously over a Barbie Jeep to save, what $20 or $30? The fight had so many store employees distracted that customers began taking (looting) whatever they could grab and took off out of the store.
This poor man in New York lost his life because people went into riot mode to save a few dollars.
I'd rather watch three horrible football games over and over again than be a part of Black Friday.
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