Black Friday
It's 5AM and a 34 year old temp worker is standing inside the safety of locked doors at a Wal Mart in the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, about 13 miles east of New York...
The man was working for a temporary agency on the company’s behalf, About 2,000 people had gathered outside the store as it prepared to open.
Shoppers in the back of the line pushed those in the front into the doors, which then came off their hinges.
Hundreds of people then surged into the store, the crazed shoppers knocked over the worker and trampled him to death.
Some people continued to shop despite the efforts of upset store workers, who attempted to get them to leave.
The worker, who wasn’t identified by police, was knocked down by the Visa wiedling shoppers after 5 a.m. local time and taken to a nearby hospital,
where he was pronounced dead at 6:03 a.m. The county medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
Authorities are reviewing surveillance video and are considering criminal charges although it may be difficult to identify individual shoppers.
The Nattering One muses... This story can be found filed under W for "What a Way To Go"..
or under V for "Only Visa is accepted in Pamplonas for the running of the bulls"...
or under T for temp as in "Hey I got a temp gig working at WalMart on Black Friday"... or under G for "Green Acres is the place for me"...
Hattip to Bloomberg.
The man was working for a temporary agency on the company’s behalf, About 2,000 people had gathered outside the store as it prepared to open.
Shoppers in the back of the line pushed those in the front into the doors, which then came off their hinges.
Hundreds of people then surged into the store, the crazed shoppers knocked over the worker and trampled him to death.
Some people continued to shop despite the efforts of upset store workers, who attempted to get them to leave.
The worker, who wasn’t identified by police, was knocked down by the Visa wiedling shoppers after 5 a.m. local time and taken to a nearby hospital,
where he was pronounced dead at 6:03 a.m. The county medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
Authorities are reviewing surveillance video and are considering criminal charges although it may be difficult to identify individual shoppers.
The Nattering One muses... This story can be found filed under W for "What a Way To Go"..
or under V for "Only Visa is accepted in Pamplonas for the running of the bulls"...
or under T for temp as in "Hey I got a temp gig working at WalMart on Black Friday"... or under G for "Green Acres is the place for me"...
Hattip to Bloomberg.
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