Getbig.com: American Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure
Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: WalterWhite on November 29, 2013, 03:21:48 PM
-
Check out the security camera pics link in the story! Nut cases!
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/worker-dies-long-island-wal-mart-trampled-black-friday-stampede-article-1.334059#ixzz2m4zuSlwF
A Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an "out-of-control" mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store's front doors and trampled him, police said.
The Black Friday stampede plunged the Valley Stream outlet into chaos, knocking several employees to the ground and sending others scurrying atop vending machines to avoid the horde.
When the madness ended, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was dead and four shoppers, including a woman eight months pregnant, were injured.
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: WAL-MART CROWD MOMENTS BEFORE DEADLY STAMPEDE
"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Wal-Mart worker Jimmy Overby, 43.
"They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me.
PHOTOS: THE WAL-MART STAMPEDE, CAUGHT ON CAMERA
"They took me down, too ... I didn't know if I was going to live through it. I literally had to fight people off my back," Overby said.
Damour, a temporary maintenance worker from Jamaica, Queens, was gasping for air as shoppers continued to surge into the store after its 5 a.m. opening, witnesses said.
Even officers who arrived to perform CPR on the trampled worker were stepped on by wild-eyed shoppers streaming inside, a cop at the scene said.
"They pushed him down and walked all over him," Damour's sobbing sister, Danielle, 41, said. "How could these people do that?
"He was such a young man with a good heart, full of life. He didn't deserve that."
PHOTOS: BLACK FRIDAY
Damour's sister said doctors told the family he died of a heart attack.
His cousin, Ernst Damour, called the circumstances "completely unacceptable."
"His body was a stepping bag with so much disregard for human life," Ernst Damour, 37, said. "There has to be some accountability."
Roughly 2,000 people gathered outside the Wal-Mart's doors in the predawn darkness.
Chanting "push the doors in," the crowd pressed against the glass as the clock ticked down to the 5 a.m. opening.
RELATED: BLACK (AND BLUE?) FRIDAY!
Sensing catastrophe, nervous employees formed a human chain inside the entrance to slow down the mass of shoppers.
It didn't work.
The mob barreled in and overwhelmed workers.
"They were jumping over the barricades and breaking down the door," said Pat Alexander, 53, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. "Everyone was screaming. You just had to keep walking on your toes to keep from falling over."
After the throng toppled Damour, his fellow employees had to fight through the crowd to help him, police said.
RELATED: BLACK FRIDAY SURVIVAL GUIDE
Witness Kimberly Cribbs said shoppers acted like "savages."
"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, 'I've been on line since Friday morning!'" Cribbs said. "They kept shopping."
When paramedics arrived, Damour's condition was grave.
"They were pumping his chest, trying to bring him back, and there was nothing," said Dennis Smokes, 36, a Wal-Mart worker.
Damour was taken to Franklin Hospital and pronounced dead at 6:03 a.m.
RELATED: PAINT TOWN BLACK
Hank Mullany, president of Wal-Mart's northeast division, said the company took extraordinary safety precautions.
"We expected a large crowd this morning and added additional internal security, additional third-party security, additional store associates and we worked closely with the Nassau County police," he said in a statement.
"We also erected barricades. Despite all of our precautions, this unfortunate event occurred."
The 28-year-old pregnant woman and three other shoppers were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries, police said.
In a news conference after the incident, Nassau County police spokesman Lt. Michael Fleming described the crowd as "out of control" and the scene as "utter chaos." He said Wal-Mart did not have enough security onhand.
Fleming said criminal charges were possible but that it would be difficult to identify individual shoppers in surveillance videos.
Items on sale at the Wal-Mart store included a $798 Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV, a Bissel Compact Upright Vacuum for $28 and Men's Wrangler Tough Jeans for $8.
The Long Island store reopened at 1 p.m. and was packed within minutes.
"I look at these people's faces and I keep thinking one of them could have stepped on him," said one employee. "How could you take a man's life to save $20 on a TV?"
-
obama's america
-
And for all time and a half of minimum wage. Walmart policy of termination if won't work holidays. Damn shame.
-
"When the madness ended, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was dead and four shoppers, including a woman eight months pregnant, were injured."
8 months pregnant woman shopping on Black Friday....oh brother
-
"When the madness ended, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was dead and four shoppers, including a woman eight months pregnant, were injured."
8 months pregnant woman shopping on Black Friday....oh brother
People actually bring their kids on black friday. I want to smack the parents.
-
Sad, consumerism...I didn't even go out and shop today. Why? Unappreciative, greedy people.
-
Not even trying to be funny but he died for you bitches. :-[
-
Not even trying to be funny but he died for you bitches. :-[
I stayed home today. Not sure what the big deal is about Black Friday. Anything you buy today is going to be worth 50% less in a year anyways.
-
You guys remember that black friday where some grown ass man wrestled an Xbox away from some kid? Fuck that it sad.
-
You guys remember that black friday where some grown ass man wrestles an Xbox away from some kid? Fuck that it sad.
It seems to bring out the crazy people! I wonder how many were shopping with EBT cards?!!
-
I shop for Christmas online and let the UPS guy bring it to my house. He hasn't tried to trample me. Not even once.
-
I shop for Christmas online and let the UPS guy bring it to my house. He hasn't tried to trample me. Not even once.
I'm with you and he is always polite. :)
-
nice circa 5 years ago
-
nice circa 5 years ago
I was thinking I had heard this before.
Of course, since people never learn...
-
I was thinking I had heard this before.
Of course, since people never learn...
This year just fights.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-28/wal-mart-uses-wristbands-to-deter-holiday-shopper-melees.html
-
nice circa 5 years ago
I'd let you trample me..... ;D
-
I'd let you trample me..... ;D
You have issues LOL, hope all is well pal
-
I was thinking I had heard this before.
Of course, since people never learn...
exactly, and I did notice the date on the article LOL
-
You have issues LOL, hope all is well pal
What does that have to do with anything?
You could do one of those Japanese back massages where you walk barefoot on my back....the loud, obnoxious, nude, Greek version of it.
;D
-
Arce would clear this shit out in 4 minutes and send them back next friday.
-
What does that have to do with anything?
You could do one of those Japanese back massages where you walk barefoot on my back....the loud, obnoxious, nude, Greek version of it.
;D
HAHAHAHA
-
I grew up near here and used to go to the Green Acres mall all the time when I was a kid. Don't remember any shit like this, lol.
Makes me embarrassed to be part of the human species. Really. :(
-
Thanks Obama. >:(
-
Thats an old article. That was from 2008 and it was reprinted.
Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede
Comments (13)
By Joe Gould , Clare Trapasso AND Rich Schapiro / DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Friday, November 28, 2008, 10:46 PM
-
Its still black friday and there's boatloads of vids on utube like this.
Happy Holidays!
-
I would gas them and then have a cigar.
-
Definitely no Obama voters in that crowd. ::)
-
I saw a south park episode about black friday some days ago. Never thought it could be like that in real life.
-
Its still black friday and there's boatloads of vids on utube like this.
Happy Holidays!
LOL 1:40 and onwards, disgusting behavior
-
Its still black friday and there's boatloads of vids on utube like this.
Happy Holidays!
Guess the kneegulls
-
LOL 1:40 and onwards, disgusting behavior
The whole video is plain disgusting. Looks like only low life people go to black fridays ???
-
Didn't leave the house today.
-
-
To state the obvious, I don't see the math in it. How many dollars does someone 'save' vs how many hours they spend? "I've been in line for two days!!" Why? ??? You have a pathological need to buy useless crap?
-
d
-
Its still black friday and there's boatloads of vids on utube like this.
Happy Holidays!
From the looks of it this is the only exercise these people get.
We deserve to be hit by a comet!
-
I actually drove by a best buy on the way to dinner on thanksgiving. ... there was at least 60 people sleepong in tents at rhe front of tje store.
I rolled down my window and screamed "get lives you fucking losers!!"
True story.
-
I actually drove by a best buy on the way to dinner on thanksgiving. ... there was at least 60 people sleepong in tents at rhe front of tje store.
I rolled down my window and screamed "get lives you fucking losers!!"
True story.
Hahaha nicely done
-
I actually drove by a best buy on the way to dinner on thanksgiving. ... there was at least 60 people sleepong in tents at rhe front of tje store.
I rolled down my window and screamed "get lives you fucking losers!!"
True story.
Yes!
-
I actually drove by a best buy on the way to dinner on thanksgiving. ... there was at least 60 people sleepong in tents at rhe front of tje store.
I rolled down my window and screamed "get lives you fucking losers!!"
True story.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
-
greek massage of peace ::)
-
These versions of our species will never be of any value whatsoever.
I wish for them all death.
-
greek massage of peace ::)
LOL
-
greek massage of peace ::)
Are you saying a massage by women with mustaches?
-
LOL
forgive the my tardiness i just read this thread
-
Are you saying a massage by women with mustaches?
oh my