photo credit: Matt McGee
Thanksgiving and Death; the “Giving Season” and Greed – they just aren’t supposed to go together . . .
Try telling that to the employees of the Valley Stream Walmart in New York state — or worse to the family of the man who was trampled to death by the out of control frenzied crowd of bargain hunting shoppers.
I remember as a small child going to sales in the garment district with my mother and aunts and being pushed and shoved as women would try to dig through huge piles of sale clothing. It was scary at best, and to this day I stay away from deep discount sales if at all possible. But this scene was like something out of a Hollywood movie, a story line that is supposed to be fictional. A scene for effect in a movie, not real life.
How can civilized human beings get so worked up that they would run over someone, and then get upset when asked to leave the store because of the man’s death? How callous have we become…
What amazes me is that there appeared to be NO COMPASSION, NO REGRET, NO REMORSE by any of the individuals involved in the tragedy. Have we become so de-synthesized to Violence that we are not even phased by this type of behavior?
I would like to think that the people involved in this Walmart tragedy were pushed to this type of behavior because they were starving and needed food for their families; or perhaps they were extremely sick and needed to get to the medicines in the pharmacy department of the store. But unfortunately, no, they were trying to push and shove their way to grab the discounted flat screen TV’s and other deeply discounted items — none of which were necessities.
And now, there are accusations against Walmart, suggesting that they are to blame for this man’s death. That just takes “ridiculous” to a new level.
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