11/28/08: TWD's Agenda For FriDay- Madness on Black Friday

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Black Friday brutality, as usual, leads to a tragedy. (Via the recommended diary from trifecta at the Kos).

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

The 34-year-old 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."

Please, for the rest of your day, be careful out there on Black Friday. This happens almost every damn year. When will people actually learn?

Sad.

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