Sunday, November 30, 2008
Outside reading
For this outside reading I read an article about a walmart worker that got trampled and died. The worker was killed after opening the doors at 5 a.m. to a New York walmart for black friday sales. About 2,000 people were lined up outside the doors and when it was time to open the doors shoppers broke down the doors and pushed workers to the ground. The choatic shoppers killed a 34 year old man and injured four other people including a pregnant woman, who were all rushed to the hospital immediately after it happened. Even though the shoppers knew they had knocked people to ground they kept running to the sales. The walmart was closed for the rest of the day after the stampede happened and the police are still looking into the situation. Many workers around the country are claiming that they got injured from the shoppers of black friday sales too.
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I think that this kind of horrible thing just goes to show how messed up some of our priorities are. Would you rather get a good discount or injure the lives of others? These kind of things don't just happen on black fridays and really aren't exposed in the media unless it is something huge. But also, the stores have some responsibility too because they are the ones who make up a huge hype for "black friday specials"
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