Monday, December 1, 2008

Trampled (??)

The sad story of the Wal Mart employ who is trampled under foot. By those who must have that new T.V. at or for the best price.

"Jdimytai Damour was a big man — 270 pounds, by one account — but he was a gentle giant to his friends, who said he loved to chat about movies, Japanese anime and politics. So on Saturday, they were still reeling from the violent and seemingly inexplicable way that Mr. Damour had died — trampled before sunrise on Friday, the police said, by rampaging shoppers running into a Wal-Mart store on Long Island where he was working as a maintenance man for the holidays.
Shoppers started lining up late Thursday night at the Wal-Mart, at the Green Acres Mall on Sunrise Highway in Valley Stream, not far from the Queens border, where DVDs, flat-panel television sets and other entertainment items were discounted to attract crowds on the traditional first day of the Christmas shopping season.
Mr. Damour, 34, who was known to his friends as Jimbo, or Jdidread because of his dreadlocks, got his job at Wal-Mart through Labor Now, an agency for temporary workers. He had been trying to hold back a crush of shoppers pressing against the store’s sliding-glass double doors, the authorities said. Just before the store’s scheduled 5 a.m. opening, they said, the doors shattered under the weight of the crowd. Mr. Damour was thrown to the floor and trampled."


Here is the link to the story;
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/nyregion/30walmart.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Wal%20Mart&st=cse

Is this a sad commentary on the human species?
Mervi

1 comment:

Karen J. Hopper said...

So sad and uncalled for. I read of a woman in another store who got knocked down and hurt. She got up, did her shopping, paid for it, and then asked to be taken to the local hospital for medical assistance. She REALLY was injured. These incidents definitely take the joy of giving to a new level. Whatever happened to the little inexpensive gifts given in love? Oh why did I even ask that; it got trampled on and destroyed years ago.