Wal-Mart Employee Trampled To Death in Black Friday Stampede

November 28, 2008 on 4:58 pm | In culture, ethics | No Comments

America’s annual day-after-Thanksgiving shopping binge, known perhaps foreshadowingly as ‘Black Friday’, reached a new low this year.  Early this morning, Jdimytai Damour was trampled to death in a stampede of shoppers after he opened the door to the Valley Stream Wal Mart on Long Island.  A temp agency employee, Damour was overwhelmed by the crowd of 2,000 shoppers which literally broke the door frame and pinned him underneath it as they surged into the store.  Four other people were taken to a nearby hospital for injuries sustained in the stampede.

I don’t think that commentary on this story is necessary.  I just want to make sure that everyone knows about it, and sees what despicable, self-absorbed cretins this celebration of crass consumerism can turn us into.  This wasn’t a mob of rapists or murderers.  They weren’t drunk or frightened.  This was a crowd whose blind violence was motivated by low prices and marketing.

Here’s looking at you, America.