[Infowarrior] - Worker dies; miscarriage during WalMart stampede

[Richard Forno]

Words utterly fail me here.   Life? Death? Injury? Who cares, lemme  
at the doorbuster bargains!    Idiots, all.

   --rf



Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black  
Friday stampede

BY JOE GOULD
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Updated Friday, November 28th 2008, 10:19 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/ 
2008/11/28/2008-11-28_worker_dies_at_long_island_walmart_after.html? 
print=1&page=all

A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when  
hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal- 
Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.

The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried  
to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store  
opened at 5 a.m.

Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down.  
He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over  
and around him.

"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co- 
worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and  
killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to  
fight people off my back."

Nassau County Police are still investigating and would not confirm  
the witness accounts. The Medical Examiner will determine the cause  
of death. Police did say there were several injuries but weren't more  
specific.

Jessica Keyes was among the shoppers. She told the Daily News she saw  
a woman knocked down just a few feet from the dying worker.

"When the paramedics came, she said 'I'm pregnant,'" Keyes said.

Paramedics treated the woman inside the store and then, according to  
Keys, told the woman:

"There's nothing we can do. The baby is gone."

Before police shut down the store, eager shoppers streamed past  
emergency crews as they worked furiously to save the store clerk's life.

"They were working on him, but you could see he was dead, said  
Halcyon Alexander, 29. "People were still coming through."

Only a few stopped.

"They're savages," said shopper Kimberly Cribbs, 27. "It's sad. It's  
terrible."