Black Friday Shoppers Stampede - Kill Wal-Mart Employee

[St_Bess]

Re: Black Friday Shoppers Stampede - Kill Wal-Mart Employee


Although the store is located in Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream it is right on the border of Nassau County and Queens maybe 4 blocks from the Queens border. People have been killed there before in the Multiplex movie theatre maybe 10 - 15 years ago. This mall has a reputation for the "wrong" crowd. Alough it is located on the edge of Valley Stream most or nearly all of the shoppers were from Queens.

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Black Friday Shoppers Stampede - Kill Wal-Mart Employee

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Boopie2</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">anoddah reason fi bwoycott walmart </div></div>

I agree, did they even close the store after this happened? Or was it business as usual. </div></div>

it was bizniz as usual...
but why the media outrage? this happens every year someone gets trampled to death for this stupid 'holiday' called black friday...</div></div>Did you bother to <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">read</span> the article? It was not business as usual, they tried to close the store but the Mo... err shoppers would not let them.
They did eventually closed the store for two hours.
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">BTW</span> it is not a <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">holiday</span> it is <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">holiday shopping</span>!

[jah_yout]

Re: Black Friday Shoppers Stampede - Kill Wal-Mart Employee

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Boopie2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

anoddah reason fi bwoycott walmart </div></div>

I agree, did they even close the store after this happened? Or was it business as usual. </div></div>

it was bizniz as usual...
but why the media outrage? this happens every year someone gets trampled to death for this stupid 'holiday' called black friday...</div></div>Did you bother to <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">read</span> the article? It was not business as usual, they tried to close the store but the Mo... err shoppers would not let them.
They did eventually closed the store for two hours.
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">BTW</span> it is not a <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">holiday</span> it is <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">holiday shopping</span>!

a whole two hours...
yippeee!
no black friday has become a 'holiday' in itself...
people coming out in the middle of the night, huge crowds, non-stop media hype...
it is bigger than presidents day, veterans day, and flag day combined

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Black Friday Shoppers Stampede - Kill Wal-Mart Employee

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">a whole two hours...
yippeee!</div></div>It should have closed for the day...but the important part here is that the shoppers themselves did not want the store to be closed after a man had been trampled and others injured. Not only that in another location a woman was injured but she kept on shopping before she made a report.
What does this say about the crowds on those shopping days?

[Tuff Gong]

More Mayhem &amp; Death At Wal-Mart

<span style="font-style: italic"> Al Norman
Posted December 6, 2008 | 08:34 AM (EST)</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">More Mayhem &amp; Death At Wal-Mart</span>

Florida resident Patrick Donovan, 53, died over $393 in Wal-Mart merchandise, lying face down in the giant retailer's parking lot last week. The media reported the exact amount of Wal-Mart goods Donovan had allegedly shop-lifted---so we can quantify the value of this man's life.

In a reversal of the death of a 34 year old Wal-Mart worker last week under the feet of aggressive Wal-Mart shoppers, Donovan's death in Florida---three days after the Long Island incident---was at the hands of three Wal-Mart workers, who wrestled the alleged shoplifter to the ground, where the man died.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">The Wal-Mart workers and one bystander held Donovan down, while one leaned on his back and another held down his arms and head. The police report says they told Donovan to stop fighting, and asked witnesses to call 911. By the time Donovan had stopped struggling, he had died.</span>

&quot;There will be no charges pressed,&quot; a spokeswoman for the city of North Myrtle Beach told the Sun News. Authorities said results from an autopsy in the case could take &quot;a few months.&quot; In the meantime, officials simply concluded, &quot;There is no criminal act.&quot; In the words of the County Coroner's office, &quot;As far as I am concerned there is no case here.&quot; The family of Patrick Donovan is likely to conclude otherwise, and their lawyer might like to review the court records of one Stacy Driver.

On August 7, 2005, Stacy Driver, 30, of Cleveland, Ohio, a master carpenter and the father of a two year old son, died from a heart attack, while lying face down in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Atascocita, Texas. Driver was pinned down on the burning hot pavement by several Wal-Mart workers who accused him of shoplifting a package of diapers, a pair of sunglasses, a BB gun, and a package of BBs. The Harris County, Texas Medical Examiner's Office ruled Driver's death was a homicide. An autopsy showed that the death was caused by asphyxia due to neck and chest compression, with a secondary cause of hyperthermia. The Houston Chronicle reported that Wal-Mart paid nearly $750,000 to Driver's family as part of a settlement.

There is a legal case already underway in the Long Island trampling. The family of Jdimytai Damour, the Wal-Mart temp who was crushed by Black Friday shoppers, has filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart, the shopping center owners, and a security company, charging them all with &quot;carelessness and reckless negligence.&quot; The lawsuit adds: &quot;The defendants...engaged in specific marketing and advertising techniques to specifically attract a large crowd and create an environment of frenzy and mayhem and was otherwise careless, reckless and negligent.&quot; An autopsy on Damour revealed he died of asphyxiation. While Florida officials need months to figure out what killed Patrick Donovan, the Damour family is well on its way toward a huge financial settlement.

Less than a week after Donovan's parking lot death in Florida, a 67-year-old man was kidnapped and stabbed in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Poway, California. The victim, who police would not identify, had just purchased some milk at a Wal-Mart, and was walking home when a man stuck a gun in his back and threatened to kill him. The attacker forced the man behind some large shipping containers in the Wal-Mart parking lot. &quot;He thought the guy was going to kill him,&quot; the police report said. The elderly victim fought off his attacker, and knocked the gun under a container. The attacker pursued him through the parking lot, where a Wal-Mart security guard saw the fight, and called the police. The victim was stabbed in the hand and thigh, was treated at a hospital and released.

For Wal-Mart, such cases can be very costly financially. In March of 2001, Katoria Lee stopped off at a Wal-Mart store in Riverdale, Georgia to buy some party supplies for her 9 year-old son, who was asleep inside her Ford Explorer. She parked under a light pole close to the front entrance of the store. When she emerged from the Wal-Mart, an assailant told Lee to give him her keys. Lee dropped the keys and ran---but the assailant shot her in the back with a .380-caliber handgun. Five years of court battles later, a jury in Clayton County, Georgia ordered Wal-Mart to pay Lee $4,200,000 in damages from her civil suit against the retailer. &quot;This is exactly what Wal-Mart should have expected,&quot; Lee's lawyer said. &quot;Wal-Mart should have had security in the parking lot, and should have known that violent crimes had occurred in the past in this parking lot, and would continue to occur on their property.&quot; Lee's attorney provided a list of 398 visits by police to that store for various crimes in the 20 months leading up to her shooting.....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-norman/more-mayhem-death-at-wal_b_148922.html