Mob-Mart

[Gato Moteado]

where else but in america can you get so called patriotic and family-values people to crowd around outside a mega-store for hours or even days before it opens and then, when it does, kick in the entrance and make such a mad, angry rush inward with the intention of getting as much chinese made shit before the other people get it first, that they stampede and kill an innocent bystander in the process? and where else but america, when these people are asked to leave the store because they killed a human being, would they complain about it and whine because of all the time they spent waiting?

and all this in order to celebrate the birth of christ.

[Catshrink]

1. What was it Gandhi said?

Something like: I like your Christ. He is so unlike your Christians.

edited for spelling.

[KittyWampus]

2. your characterization of what happened is purely fiction. Why are you making shit up?

There were 2000 people massed in front of Walmart's door with no barriers, cordons or crowd control officers.

ALL THAT WAS NEEDED WAS FOR THE 1900 behind you to start leaning forward.

[ZombieHorde]

5. Why would the people in the back touch the people infront of them?

I can not figure this out.

[Dis Pater]

3. ...

Pop fans' stampede crushes 54 to death in Minsk metro
THE FIRST of many funerals will be held in Belarus today after at least 54 people, most of them teenage girls, were crushed to death in a metro underpass stampede on Sunday.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n14229833

Gujarat riot death toll revealed
Godhra train
The cause of the Godhra train fire is still uncertain
India has for the first time published detailed figures on the number of people killed in the religious riots in the western state of Gujarat in 2002.

The government told parliament that 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed, 223 more people reported missing and another 2,500 injured.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4536199.stm

Riot death toll in Maluku reaches 26, but situation improving
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2004_May_3/ai_n6278658

Stampede Death Toll Is Cut to 74 Filipinos
Seventy-four people were killed Saturday in a stampede at a stadium in Manila as they scrambled to get into a popular Philippine television game show offering cash and other prizes, the health secretary and witnesses said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/international/asia/05philippine.html

[Gato Moteado]

6. more mob mentality

the first and last example you cite are very similar to the walmart thing. the two in the middle are very different circumstances. all four are tragic.

people killing others in a mad rush to buy chinese crap, see a concert or get onto a TV show is just so bizarre.

[Obamanaut]

16. Don't forget the sale on wedding gowns at Filene's Basement. nt

[creature of habit]

4. the doors were opened not broken down

a video released right afterward shows that the doors were slid open- which they should not have been with thousands of people ready to rush through a confined area





Wal Mart was not prepared - did not prepare for crowd control

[Gato Moteado]

8. im not absolving walmart of liability here.....

....just pointing out how strange it is that 2000 people (or however many it was) would be crowding around outside a walmart waiting for it to open so they could participate in a free-for-all shopping-gasm for a bunch of crappy chinese products.

[npk]

10. One news report stated that the doors were broken down

I have not seen any video though, just what was reported in the paper.

[brettdale]

7. did anyone

Try to help him?

[Gato Moteado]

9. who knows.......

....my guess is that the people were more interested in off-brand big screen TVs, digital cameras, gameboys, and crappy toys that will be broken within a week after xmas.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. I believe they did

but the crush was too great. Others were injured, including a pregnant woman.

[jpertello]

13. STORE EMPLOYEES TRIED TO GET TO HIM.

even the cops had a hard time getting through the mob to help him.

[Uben]

11. More like "COMEGETSTOMPEDTODEATH-MART"

aT LEAST ON BLACK fRIDAY!

[eilen]

14. too bad they don't line up like that to vote. n/t

[NoPasaran]

15. That could be a mixed blessing as well

'Hundreds dead' in Nigeria riots

Hundreds of people have been killed in the central Nigerian city of Jos after Christians and Muslims clashed over the results of a local election, a senior Red Cross official has said.

The official, who asked not to be named, said on Saturday that 218 bodies were lying in the main mosque in Jos, awaiting burial.

Sheikh Khalid Abubakar, the imam at the mosque, claimed that more than 400 dead bodies were brought to the mosque.

It is also likely that the bodies of Christians killed in the riots were taken elsewhere, making the total number of dead uncertain.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/11/20081129175135493970.html