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Worker and unborn baby dies at Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede
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Number of posts : 472 Age : 46 Location : Chico Ca Registration date : 2008-11-30
Subject: Worker and unborn baby dies at Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:00 pm
Yet Another Reason to online shop... This type of consumerism is beyond insane. My heart goes out to the families of the victims.
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Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede BY JOE GOULD DAILY NEWS WRITER Updated Friday, November 28th 2008, 10:19 AM
Anderson/News A Wal-Mart store was the scene of chaos this morning. Related News PHOTO GALLERY Black Friday frenzy ARTICLES NYers make mad dash for deals Black Friday shopping tips Retailers optimistic about Black Friday A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said. The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m. Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him. "He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back." Nassau County Police are still investigating and would not confirm the witness accounts. The Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. Police did say there were several injuries but weren't more specific. Jessica Keyes was among the shoppers. She told the Daily News she saw a woman knocked down just a few feet from the dying worker. "When the paramedics came, she said 'I'm pregnant,'" Keyes said. Paramedics treated the woman inside the store and then, according to Keys, told the woman: "There's nothing we can do. The baby is gone." Before police shut down the store, eager shoppers streamed past emergency crews as they worked furiously to save the store clerk's life. "They were working on him, but you could see he was dead, said Halcyon Alexander, 29. "People were still coming through." Only a few stopped. "They're savages," said shopper Kimberly Cribbs, 27. "It's sad. It's terrible."
Subject: Worker and unborn baby dies at Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede 
Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:00 pm