casualties of black friday Options

[karmakiller]

This is crazy

Two people were shot to death in a crowded toy store on Black Friday in a confrontation apparently involving rival groups, city officials said.

"I think the obvious question everyone has is who takes loaded weapons into a Toys "R" Us?" he said. "I doubt it was the casual holiday shopper."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27957714/

A Wal-Mart worker was killed Friday after an "out of control" throng of shoppers eager for post-Thanksgiving bargains broke down the doors at a suburban store and knocked him to the ground, police said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27955316/

[carolannexbh]

I was reading an article that was saying how the customers all refused to leave the store after the guy was trampled to death. People were saying how they had been waiting in line for 24 hours and they weren't going to leave. Its awful how human life is so worthless to some people.
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Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like "savages."
"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling `I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" she said. "They kept shopping."

[marzipan]

I was reading an article that was saying how the customers all refused to leave the store after the guy was trampled to death. People were saying how they had been waiting in line for 24 hours and they weren't going to leave. Its awful how human life is so worthless to some people.
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That is absolutely crazy.
Yeah, sure, everyone loves discounts.
But I cannot understand how people can simply dismiss the fact that a guy DIED from being trampled on and continue shopping.
It doesn't make any sense.