Here's photos of the crowd taken by someone with a cell phone:
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/gal..._pictures.html
I did go to Wal-Mart this morning...We were very peaceable...I got there super early to grab an HP computer...I staked my territory early and stood there about an hour...Myself and everyone around me were all talkative and sayin how CRAZY we were to be there...It was actually kinda fun...This was my first time doing it...Getting outta the store was the trick...People were goin in by the DROVES and a few of us were tryin to get out with our loot...Good luck swimmin upstream there...All said and done we all helped each other load buggys and dollys...I was handin out printers and I took mine off the stack last...I feel so badly for that guy...He did not deserve to die like that...Good greif...
I bought that book at Half Price Books in Austin last week. I haven't started reading it yet. Paid $3 for it.
I wonder what it was at WAL-MART on sale that a man had to die for...
Seriously, WTF is wrong with people? They took off the doors? Who is so disrespectful, and who do they think they area? I hope those people are happy with their great deals they got. I'm sure it was all worth someone's life.
Nobody died but a lot of people were injured when Henrico county pulled the dumbest, full of shit here one year. They decided they were going to sell their used student laptops for dirt cheap... They only had a certain amount of computers and... Hundreds of people came out and they didn't give anyone tickets and when the gates opened...
Weeeeelll, you get the picture... It ended up all over the news. That's freakin horrible for that employee and that poor woman... AND, during the FUCKIN holiday.
BTW, the laptops were pieces of crap.... They were completely stripped and most had to be repaired.
I am not surprised in the least.....I worked at a Wally World pharmacy and had to work a black friday.....I have never seen anything like it.....and I hope I never do again....unbeliveable
attn walmart shoppers u are all being charged with murder today in isle 5
The man who was killed was a temp worker and didn't usually work at Wal-Mart. I guess the metal folded like an accordian.
I saw footage of Wal-Mart where only like 12 products were on sale and hundreds of people showed up. If they had tried to close the doors,the guard on duty would of been bummed rushed.
I used to work at a small shop and Black Friday was awful-many of the people who would show up early were rude and had a sense on entitlement. One guy kicked back in a demo chair,took this pillow(the only one we had) and sat there.
Thing, is he had no intention on buying anything!
Last edited by hoxharding; 11-28-2008 at 11:49 AM.
That picture is disturbing... I can't believe the barbaric actions of these people. What is our society becoming really a sad thing. Prayers go out to the guys family.
I worked at a department store in a mall in my younger days and the store would look like a tornado had come through the place the next day after a 15 hour sale. Like several others have said... I do my shopping online now.
Wow...those pics are scary! It's like attack of the shopping zombies!
All to save a few bucks,how sad
I don't think I am ever going to shop on Black friday after reading about the trampling at Wal Mart thread........
Hahaha, I found it at the Half Price books here in College Station
Why kill a guy in the name of buying for Christmas? That's what gets to me about this.
Somehow, somewhere the true meaning of Christmas has been lost and replaced with the commercialism. If Christmas wasn't as it is today, this wouldn't have happened.
Fuck this consumer commercial Christmas shopping shit. They should just cancel black Fryday period. Really? What's the rush?
It's really pathetic how this holiday has changed.
Last edited by GrinReaper; 11-28-2008 at 12:53 PM.
Merchants are desperate this year too separate us from our money. And people are desperate to get the most they can with as little as they have. It is too bad it had to go tragic. Think of the fender benders in over crowded parking lots as pissed off consumers battle for a parking spot. I really do not like to get out much on this day. Unless its a drive out in the country.
Stay in Drugs. Eat your School. Don't do Vegetables.
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Anything for a bargain, I guess
You see, people laugh at our up-tightness for having queues. Queues work. So does not letting everybody and his dog have guns.
No disrespect to the dead. People just make me sick sometimes.
Two people have died after a shooting inside the Toys-R-Us in Palm Desert Friday morning, Riverside County Sheriff's Department confirmed.
The shooting happened just before 11:30 a.m. at the store located at 72314 Highway 111.
Deputies did not say if the people who died were either the suspected shooters or bystanders.
Several people have been arrested including a teenager who was held inside the store. News Channel 3 cameras captured at least two arrests outside the store including a woman who was heard screaming and banging on a Sheriff's cruiser. No word if a gunman has been captured.
Deputies told News Channel 3 that some shoppers inside were evacuated while others were kept in the store shortly after the shooting as deputies swept the store for suspects.
Authorities are still trying to figure out if a gunman is still on the loose.
Riverside County Sheriff's Department as well as officers from the Cathedral City and Indio police departments are on scene.
The shooting comes on the morning of Black Friday, one of the year's busiest shopping days.
These are the second and third deaths related to Black Fryday.
WTF is going on here?
For god's sake, stay safe and do your shopping online from your home or office. (This message brought to you by the internet.)
My former co-worker's hubby was a manager at Wal-Mart for many years. One Black Friday several years ago, he was slugged by someone in pursuit of a cheap television. He required hospitalization and continues to work at Wal-Mart to this day. So sad what takes place in pursuit of this stuff. I bet half of the people are attempting to sell it on e-bay.
...and this is the perfect definition of a mob mentality. Shame on them!
I'm so not one of thsoe mainstream commercial consumer shoppers.
I just stay at home and take part in "Buy Nothing Day."
My neice,who was around 3 at the time, got knocked down going into walmart on Black Friday. A woman ran by her trying to get ahead of everyone else. Knocked her down and kept right on going. No "oh baby, I'm so sorry" Nothing.
Watch for falling prices!!!
my god the amount of people in those pics...I would not wanted to be a cashier that day
I know, I know, there is already another thread on this, but it wouldn't let me post a reply, I tried a couple of times, and for some odd reason it said it was an invalid thread Anywhoooo, mods, feel free to merge or do what you wish with my thread. I just needed to say my peace.
http://cbs2.com/local/shooting.Toys.R.2.875874.html
I just heard about this, how very disturbing. This whole black Friday thing is utterly ridiculous. Is it not bad enough that people start fighting over parking spots at this time of year? And to have a fatal shooting at a Toys R Us of all places. What a great influence upon the kids there, parent's shooting each other up probably over some stupid toy. I'm ready to give up on the gift giving part of Christmas, what's the point of fighting the crowds and putting yourself in further debt to buy presents for everyone that you've become acquainted with over time, and going through this crap to buy overindulged spoiled kids crap they don't need. I could rant on forever, believe me.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsvGs...feature=colike
My own, personal, Dexter...
Yeah and I was the one who started it. For some reason it keeps ending up/getting merged with the one about the man who got trampled to death at Wal-Mart. A totally different incident.
Anyway, here is what I posted.
Two Killed Inside Toys-R-Us After Shooting
Two people have died after a shooting inside the Toys-R-Us in Palm Desert Friday morning, Riverside County Sheriff's Department confirmed.
The shooting happened just before 11:30 a.m. at the store located at 72314 Highway 111.
Deputies did not say if the people who died were either the suspected shooters or bystanders.
Several people have been arrested including a teenager who was held inside the store. News Channel 3 cameras captured at least two arrests outside the store including a woman who was heard screaming and banging on a Sheriff's cruiser. No word if a gunman has been captured.
Deputies told News Channel 3 that some shoppers inside were evacuated while others were kept in the store shortly after the shooting as deputies swept the store for suspects.
Authorities are still trying to figure out if a gunman is still on the loose.
Riverside County Sheriff's Department as well as officers from the Cathedral City and Indio police departments are on scene.
The shooting comes on the morning of Black Friday, one of the year's busiest shopping days.
These are the second and third deaths related to Black Fryday.
WTF is going on here?
For god's sake, stay safe and do your shopping online from your home or office. (This message brought to you by the internet.)
This might beat New Yorks stampede deaths. Have to wait untill midnite to tally the nation wide body count.
Stay in Drugs. Eat your School. Don't do Vegetables.
LMAO... you too funny Cleanskull!
This is just plain stupid and selfish... What were these idiots thinking when pulling out a gun in Toys R Us? They are lucky they finished each other off and that no kids were killed in the crossfire.
What happened to "Tis the season to be Jolly"?
My dad and I were just talking about this, that's just sick.
What the hell can be so important you need to take down a human being? How can you also not notice you're fucking stepping on someone?
Poor guy; just horrible.
Hope the others are alright.
Another reason for me to continue to never be a part of this day.
Last edited by norah; 11-28-2008 at 02:57 PM.
??If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.? - Michael Jackson
Why are these to stories being merged?? They are two seperate events... One on the East Coast and one on the West Coast? This is going to make it confusing.
Crap, we don't have half price books here in the sticks.
well it looks like 2 threads got merged again. Today here on the west coast we had a shooting at Toys R Us. But luckily the only ones who died were the 2 shooters themselves. (as reported by cbs)
And here's a cell phone vid of them trying to revive the poor guy.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f55_1227894806
yes totally confusing...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsvGs...feature=colike
My own, personal, Dexter...
People are such pigs. The pics were really scary. There is no freaking way I'd be in that crowd. They knew good & well that was a riot waiting to happen. People die at concerts & in clubs all the time from stupid stuff like that. Too many people trying to bottle neck into a tiny doorway.
A pregnant woman had no business in a situation like that. What an idiot. I mean that.
What did WalMart do? They didn't open the door, those people broke in. I can't imagine the fear that poor guy must have felt. Can you imagine all those people running at you!?
Kids have no business being around that either. Who would put their children in that situation??
WORD!!! What a horrible, ignominious end for this guy who, if he's like most WalMart employees, worked like a dog for VERY LITTLE RETURN (I used to work there myself...in a deli...the work was long, hard, and physically demanding...Thank God I got an education and could leave that behind...If I had to stay in that job, my spirit would have been broken very quickly).
The Los Angeles Times reported that the shooting, which took place some 120 miles east of Los Angeles, may have stemmed from an argument between two groups of shoppers.
WTF??? What is worth THAT