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I don't know if this is debatable, but..

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  11/28/2008 1:28 pm

... this is horrifying! A Walmart employee was killed today by stampeding Black Friday shoppers. How horrific! What on earth possesses people to lose themselves in the frenzy of the chance of good deals to the extent that they would even injure another person, let alone kill them. :-(

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081128/us/usreport_us_usa_holidaysales_death_1

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  11/28/2008 2:24 pm

it happens (someone killed or seriously injured) every single year and is in part why I don't go.  Horrifying.

they have camera shots of those closest to the doors and I wonder if they will/should be charged.

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  11/28/2008 3:13 pm

Someone should be charged! but the problem is the people at the front may be just pushed from behind and have no where to go or no way of stopping? I think it would be pretty scary to be stuck in a mob like that. :-(
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  11/28/2008 3:21 pm

I have a feeling there is a video (the pics I saw looked like they were from a video) and maybe they'll get a clearer view of what happened.

 I think it would be pretty scary to be stuck in a mob like that. :-(   I can't even begin to imagine.    I'm surprised no one else was killed or seriously hurt (there was one other injury I think) there or elsewhere. 

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  11/28/2008 4:08 pm

YIKES! That is awful!!! I do not leave home on "black Friday." People are just so off kilter and have lousy values if they think rushing and crushing others to get some bargain is the way to live, KWIM? Are people so insane that STUFF is more important than human lives? Just sick!

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