Seth
01-12-2008, 03:52 PM
Every time I set foot in a walmart I nearly go postal when I'm faced by how retarded people are, but this beats everything I've seen before... text taken from the Toronto sun
NEW YORK -- Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors and knocked him down.
Criminal charges were possible, but identifying shoppers in Friday's video may prove difficult, said Detective Lt. Michael Fleming, a Nassau County police spokesman.
Other workers were trampled at the suburban store as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store in Valley Stream on Long Island was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.
Kimberly Cribbs, who saw 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."
At least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation for minor injuries.
Police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the Wal-Mart doors before its 5 a.m. opening at a mall about 30 km east of Manhattan.
The crowd knocked the employee, identified by police as Jdimytai Damour, 34, to the ground as he opened the doors. The surging mob left 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. Items on sale included a 50-inch Plasma TV for $798.
NEW YORK -- Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors and knocked him down.
Criminal charges were possible, but identifying shoppers in Friday's video may prove difficult, said Detective Lt. Michael Fleming, a Nassau County police spokesman.
Other workers were trampled at the suburban store as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store in Valley Stream on Long Island was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.
Kimberly Cribbs, who saw 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."
At least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation for minor injuries.
Police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the Wal-Mart doors before its 5 a.m. opening at a mall about 30 km east of Manhattan.
The crowd knocked the employee, identified by police as Jdimytai Damour, 34, to the ground as he opened the doors. The surging mob left 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. Items on sale included a 50-inch Plasma TV for $798.