Wal-Mart settles ‘Black Friday’ death inquiry

[DainBramaged]

Wal*Mart skates on another injustice.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30603295/

Edward H. Gersowitz, an attorney representing Damour's family in a civil lawsuit, blasted the settlement and said the family was never consulted before the deal was announced. He called for a special prosecutor.

"The ability of Wal-Mart to, in effect, buy off this criminal investigation demonstrates the epitome of corporate arrogance that has become all too familiar in this day and age, and shows how Wal-Mart has nothing but contempt for the victims of such corporate malfeasance," he said in a statement.

Any victims who accept payment from the Wal-Mart compensation fund will be required to waive their right to a separate civil suit against Wal-Mart, Rice said.

[fasttense]

1. Corporations like Wally World think they own the country

and all the people in it. They think only they should be allowed a voice and everyone should bow down to their vast stolen wealth.

[Ken Burch]

2. NATIONALIZE WALMART!

Somebody had to be the first to say it.

Sam Walton needs to have the arrogance bitch-slapped out of him.

[rufus dog]

3. Bitch slapping him may be difficult

He's dead.

[Ken Burch]

5. OK, dig him up and throw his bones in the Mississippi(or the Yangtze) then.

Like they did to bad kings in medieval Europe. I'm easy.

[Mist]

4. Sam died back in the early 90s. It's his unholy spawn who run Wal-Mart now. And yes, they

need a comeuppance.

[Ken Burch]

7. Bitch-slap the Spawn of Sam then.

Even better.

[KansDem]

9. "Spawn of Sam?"

I think you got the title of a new movie there!

[Ken Burch]

If so, I want the Troma people to produce it.

It needs that "Toxic Avenger" feeling.

[salguine]

19. News flash: They DO own the country, lock stock and Senator.

[The Gunslinger]

25. yep

[ColbertWatcher]

6. This is disgraceful. n/t

[Danger Mouse]

8. Wal-Mart is a scumbag corporation.

[imdjh]

23. Yes they are, but that has nothing to do with those idiots who trampled those people.

I dislike Walmart's politics as much as the next person- but on the day that this happened NOT ONE PERSON did I hear say, "What a stupid company Walmart is...."

no, they said, "What a bunch of fucking animals." in reference to the customers.

[DainBramaged]

27. Refer to my post below. Defending Wal*Mart here is not a good idea

the store policy, manager's policy, policy of advertising, crowd control, merchandising, ALL contributed to the chaos and death.


Go shopping at Wal*Mart hey.

[imdjh]

29. We hate Walmart, so we should dump our integrity. Got it. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

10. Court ruling? $2 million. Quarterly sales? $108 billion.

"{N}o admission of guilt by Wal-Mart."

PRICELESS

[DainBramaged]

13. And Wally World PROMISES better crowd control

at the cost of one death. Priceless. I guess the life of a person is $2 million then?

[ColbertWatcher]

15. Wal*Mart's new slogan should be: Something is "better" than nothing. n/t

[DainBramaged]

16. Sam's kids deserve jail at the worst prison we have

let's see how many days they survive in the real world. Oh, and if you call their headquarters, and tell the receptionist that the Waltons's can't bring their filthy lucre to hell, you'll get hung up on.

[ColbertWatcher]

17. The worst prison we have is Gitmo, right? n/t

[DainBramaged]

18. Rikers Island

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island

[ColbertWatcher]

20. That's worse than Gitmo!? Damn. n/t

[imdjh]

24. How do you figure that they are responsible for what the crowd did?

This didn't happen at some 4100 stores in the US nor at the 1200 stores in Mexico. Common sense would lead one to believe that this had nothing to do with Walmart policy, and a whole lot to do with the crowd at that one store.

[DainBramaged]

26. (Oh boy) it had EVERYTHING to do with store policy and LACK of crowd control

I see you think protecting Wal*Mart here is a good strategy?

[imdjh]

28. The crowd did the damage.

"I see you think protecting Wal*Mart here is a good strategy?
"

What you see is that I place blame where blame belongs. We don't like Walmart's business model. We don't like their politics. We don't like some of their large shareholders. But none of that changes the fact that the bad actors here were the idiots in the crowd who got up at an ungodly hour to go to that store, and then stampeded without regard for the safety of others, not to mention common decency.

[Ken Burch]

30. they wouldn't have got up at that ungodly hour had not Walmart created the hype to induce them

And then done a horrible job of crowd control outside the store(or no such job at all).

If Walmart had even offered complimentary coffee and donuts, I'm guessing the mood might have been different.

In the end, it's a law-of-averages thing:

If you create the conditions for a human stampede in hundreds of locations all over a continent, it's probable that the stampede will get out of control at at least one of those locations.

[imdjh]

31. 4000 walmarts didn't have a stampede - so there goes your "created the conditions" argument

Actually, it's more than 4000, but that's sufficient to show that the "law of averages" is that nothing Walmart did could reasonably be expected to trigger the stupid asshole gene in a handful of people.

[DainBramaged]

32. So in the end you are here to defend WalMart to us?

Look up the definition of tool in the dictionary.

[imdjh]

33. If that is what you call my commitment to objectivity. i call it integrity.

[DainBramaged]

34. I call it shilling. Walmart has no integrity, and defending them is absurd.

Go play your integrity game elsewhere. Hundreds of thousands of WalMart slaves would disagree with your idea of integrity.


http://walmartwatch.com/

I bet you are against the EFCA too.

[imdjh]

35. Actually, I'm a former union worker and I support EFCA

Which has nothing whatsoever to do with whether Walmart caused the stampede at their New York store.

Go play your childish shit on someone else. Thousands of workers will work at Walmart no matter how persistently you stamp your feet. The solution is to educate and organize the workers and reform Walmart. Walmart is exploiting the living, but you are trying to exploit the deaths of those people, and right now I don't find you to be all that superior.

[Mike 03]

11. The resolution of this crime, as it were, digusted me completely. I can't add much to

the opinions that have been expressed.

[Amiga500]

12. Home many of the raging bulls were arrested for trampling that guy?

Huh?

[sellitman]

21. Are you kidding me?

How many victims are you ready to arrest?

[Initech]

14. Quite sad when we have a "holiday" centered around buying crap, and it features a death toll of 3.

What does that say about us?

[Raejeanowl]

22. Then There's Only One Alternative

The Damour family will obviously have to proceed with a civil lawsuit, their rights having been abrogated by this deal.

[DainBramaged]

36. And that's the point some people in this thread just don't get

The State gets a nice tidy sum and WalMart promises to be good business doobies, and people are still dead because they took the cheap way out and didn't pay for crowd control. WalMart chalks it off to the cost of doing business.