O/T Walmart trampeling and Toys R Us shooting

We need the old United States of America to come back, I don't know if we can take all this CHANGE!

As for the deaths I had a feeling something like this was goin to happen. I said to the misses, with the economy in the slump, people being laid off and not a lot of cash to spare. The black friday sales was probably the only way they could afford half the stuff they wanted.

Link is to a tale of a similiar, albeit non-fatal, incident in the 1960s.

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Wal-Mart needs to change their policy of only having a limited amount of a certain item thats on sale.They are mostly to blame for the stampede to get to certain items before someone else does.This literally turns normal people in to animals which is very sad,The true meaning of Christmas is long gone.

I bet Walmart will be reluctant to change their policy though, since chances are the shoppers tend to grab more stuff in a frenzy than they do when relaxed and thinking straight.

Pigs shoving and trampling for slops, dogs fighting & killing over a pile of guts, people trampling & maiming others to save 1/2 off a toy or other near useless piece of junk that they don't really need. All the same thing.

Joe

Yes, people kill for money, they do it everyday. I know the crowd didn't go there with the intention of killing the guy, but it happened, and when that big crowd of 2,000 strong started pushing foward when they saw people going in, there was no stopping, the ones in the front were pushed foward from behind and right over the man that had fallen on the floor, it was a big adrenaline rush that ended in disaster.

Doorbusters at Walmart are nothing new, and they know that people can get hurt with the way they do it. Yes, it was Walmart's fault because they didn't do better planning and people get hurt every year. It's pretty much like the running of the bulls.

Ok, so TV's and Cameras don't interest you, well lets just pretend John Deere decided to sell a few brand new big tractors on black friday for 25% of their regular price. How many of you guys would line up for days for that? How many of you would run as fast as you could through a store for a legitimate chance to own a brand new tractor for almost nothing? Next question is, how many of you actually need another tractor? Some do and some don't, same with the people lined up for the stuff at Walmart.

See, city people have no use for tractors, and love electronics as much as you love your tractors. Its all perception. City people can't understand the obsession with tractors anymore than some of you can't understand people's obsessions with video games. If your life consisted of living in a small apartment and working in an office cubicle, then you might be more into electronics than the man who has a back fourty.

BTW, moms been dead for 30 years.

These doorbuster deals are always gone within the first couple of minutes of the doors opening and once they are gone, thats it, no reinchecks, no nothing. Doorbusters are designed by advertising to get people to come to the store. The store is willing to take a loss on a very small quantity of items in the hopes those that come too late will buy other stuff.

I think Circuit City handles it about the best. What they do is go outside about an hour before they open and hand out tickets for the quantity of an item they have to those that are the first ones in line. That way when the doors open, people are much calmer, those that recieve a ticket know they will get the item and have until noon to pick it up. Those that did not recieve a ticket will not be getting one and its that simple.

The tot-r-us shooting yesterday does not look like a toy fight but rather is gang related.

DID YOU SEE THE NEWS ON THE (GENEVA) SWISS WILL LIKELY APPROVE PRESCRIPTION HEROIN BY GOVERNMENT APPROVED HAND OUTS...

Rod