The poor bastard was a temp, probably making less than $10/hour.
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
Here's an update to the story:
November 29, 2008
Sought: Wal-Mart Shoppers Who Trampled NY Worker
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 12:05 p.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down.
Criminal charges were possible, but identifying individual shoppers in Friday's video may prove difficult, said Detective Lt. Michael Fleming, a Nassau County police spokesman.
Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.
At least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries. The store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening.
Police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the Wal-Mart doors before its 5 a.m. opening at a mall about 20 miles east of Manhattan. The impatient crowd knocked the employee, identified by police as Jdimytai Damour, to the ground as he opened the doors, leaving a metal portion of the frame crumpled like an accordion.
''This crowd was out of control,'' Fleming said. He described the scene as ''utter chaos,'' and said the store didn't have enough security.
Dozens of store employees trying to fight their way out to help Damour were also getting trampled by the crowd, Fleming said. Shoppers stepped over the man on the ground and streamed into the store.
Damour, 34, of Queens, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 6 a.m., police said. The exact cause of death has not been determined.
A 28-year-old pregnant woman was taken to a hospital, where she and the baby were reported to be OK, said police Sgt. Anthony Repalone.
Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like ''savages.''
''When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling `I've been on line since yesterday morning,''' she said. ''They kept shopping.''
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Ark., called the incident a ''tragic situation'' and said the employee came from a temporary agency and was doing maintenance work at the store. It said it tried to prepare for the crowd by adding staffers and outside security workers, putting up barricades and consulting police.
''Despite all of our precautions, this unfortunate event occurred,'' senior Vice President Hank Mullany said in a statement. ''Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those impacted.''
A woman reported being trampled by overeager customers at a Wal-Mart opening Friday in Farmingdale, about 15 miles east of Valley Stream, Suffolk County police said. She suffered minor injuries, but finished shopping before filling the report, police said.
Shoppers around the country line up early outside stores on the day after Thanksgiving in the annual bargain-hunting ritual known as Black Friday. It got that name because it has historically been the day when stores broke into profitability for the full year.
Items on sale at the Valley Stream Wal-Mart included a Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV for $798, a Bissel Compact Upright Vacuum for $28, a Samsung 10.2 megapixel digital camera for $69 and DVDs such as ''The Incredible Hulk'' for $9.
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AP retail writers Anne D'Innocenzio and Mae Anderson contributed to this report. -
Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
It's end of days stuff, and surely we deserve to burn in hell fire for this sort of shit? Trampling people to death in pursuit of a bargain in Wal-Mart? Christ on a bike.Comment
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
Horrendous story though it is, the stupid brutality of the mob is not exactly a new thing.Comment
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
I know, it's just the environment in which it took place that makes it seem all the more egregious.Comment
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
Was he wearing one of those big yellow "Hi, I'm Djymy!" badges that the "greeters" in UK's Wal-Mart cousin Asda are made to wear?Comment
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
Probably not. He was a maintenance worker.Comment
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
Two men at a Toys-R-Us in Southern California shot and killed each other yesterday. The women they were with got into a fight, and apparently both of the men were carrying guns, and shot each other.
This bit from the NYT this morning was just depressing:
I mean, all that over a $200 discount?At a Wal-Mart store in Columbus, Ohio, Nikki Nicely, 19, jumped onto a man’s back and pounded his shoulders when he tried to take a 40-inch Samsung flat-screen television to which she had laid claim. “That’s my TV!” Ms. Nicely shouted. “That’s my TV!”
A police officer and security guard intervened, but not before Ms. Nicely took an elbow in the face. In the end, she was the one with the $798 television, marked down from $1,000. “That’s right,” she cried as her adversary walked away. “This here is my TV!”Comment
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
All that over a fucking television.Comment
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
O dio, che cos' attendi?Comment
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
This is so depressing that I might just go and join that bloke living in his caravan in a field.Comment
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
Gotta love that name Ms Nicely, yeah she sounds it...
Didn't something similar happen at the opening of an Ikea in (I think from distant memory) Southampton?Comment
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
Is this what you were referring to loppy?
They really should have online only sales and once you've 'reserved' something you can go down and collect it in your own time.
The worst thing that may happen then is a server crashes.Comment
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
Ikea in Edmonton.
The stupid fuckers fought each other having parked their cars on the north circular causing a major fucking 2.30 am traffic jam that I was stucfk in.Comment
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Man Does Not Find Bargain at Wal*Mart
That's the one. Can't think of anything more annoying then trying to get home and getting stuck in a queue of abandoned cars as people try to save a few quid on flat pack furniture. No wonder someone got stabbed.Comment
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