I found this very disturbing story today while checking up on the news. Man Curshed to Death by Crowds at a Wal-Mart in New York. How greedy and self-absorbed do you have to be injure several people and crush a man to death, just to get a toy or other gift item because it's on sale? Even after police and others cleared a space around the man, the customers still shoved and jostled the rescure officers as they attempted to save the man.
If I owned that Wal-Mart I would have re-locked the doors, called in a massive police force, and charged every customer in the store with manslaughter or murder. I would have at least escorted every one of the them out of the store, without letting them purchase anything. I don't need money bad enough to let people get away with murder.
Our selfishness and greed is going to be the end of our nation. Just wait and see!
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- Mr. E
- Grand Prairie, Texas, United States
- Mr. E is a Christian, Husband, Father of 2, former Army Officer and Texas Rangers Baseball fan.
3 comments:
Black Friday has been a big pet peeve of mine for years. I worked in retail for many years, and I witnessed first hand the negative effects of commercializing Christmas.
At no other time of the year are shoppers more angry and bitter than they are at Christmas (which is a truly sad irony). Workers at the mall, in addition to dealing with the increase in upleasant customers, must deal with longer hours and more pressure from managers to generate increased sales.
My advice to the world: instead of buying all those presents for people who already have so much, make a small donation to your local homeless shelter, food bank, or coats for kids drive.
There is more suffering in our country than ever before. This Christmas, we all have the power to alleviate at least some of that suffering.
I could not agree with you more!! I had not even read the paper this morning.. my mom is here visiting and she set the paper down in the kitchen after she read it. I glanced over and saw the (not very large, I might add) headline describing this awful story. I felt so ill after I read it, I really felt like going to throw up. What in the world is our country coming to..??? :-(
I read the story too. It's very sad what greed, competition and a mob mentality can do.
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