Police are now reviewing videotapes from Friday's tragic incident where a 34-year old Wal-Mart worker was trampled by stampeding shoppers in Long Island. Jdimytai Damour of Queens was knocked to the ground as he opened the doors, for more than 2,000 impatient shoppers, leaving a metal portion of the frame crumpled like an accordion. Damour was caught underneath and trampled by the crowd. Other employees were also trampled as they tried to come to his aid. Damour came from a temporary agency and was doing maintenance work at the store, Wal-Mart said.
To make matters worse, the crowd got angry when the store announced it was closing because of the death. 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."
Police are now reviewing security video to see if they can identify the people who trampled him.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,459068,00.html
When a person's life becomes less important than that Black Friday sale item, we have a definite problem. Let's hope and pray that they find the self-centered people who caused this.
Let's also hope that the stores that fan the fires of the Black Friday frenzy learn a lesson from this. Encouraging shoppers to line up hours before a store opening to get a TV for $10 or a microwave for a dollar is irresponsible. When a person dies, its not fun anymore, nor is it worth it.
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