Wal-Mart worker dies in Black Friday stampede

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A 34-year-old Wal-Mart worker died Friday morning after he was knocked to the ground after "a throng of shoppers physically broke down the doors," pushing their way into the store at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, Nassau police said.

The man was knocked down at 5:03 a.m. and was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 6:03 a.m.

As of Friday morning the cause of death was described as "undetermined," police said. An exact cause of death will be determined by the county medical examiner's office, police said. The man's name was not immediately made public by the police, and the store was closed.

A 28-year-old pregnant woman was also taken to an area hospital for observation, and three other shoppers suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospitals for treatment.



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I was there bright and early at 4 a.m.

Who cares about crowds? Even 10 a.m. or noon is fine.

I didn't even sleep - I put away the turkey and then went!

Forget about it, I'm shopping online on Cyber Monday.

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The Fifth Squad is investigating.

Meanwhile, bargain hunters rushed to local stores late Thursday night and early Friday morning to get a jump on Black Friday sales.

Tommy DeGennaro and his wife, Rosette, celebrated their 20th Black Friday shopping excursion, matching the number of years they've been married.

"She dragged me out the first time," Tommy DeGennaro said Friday morning in the Smith Haven Mall as groups of fellow bargain hunters scurried around him. "Now, it's kind of a family tradition. We go out, look for sales . . . Hey, somebody's got to help out the economy."

The former Commack residents, now living in Las Vegas, brought Rosette DeGennaro's sister, Dina Mossalam of Northport, to the mall at 4 a.m., when the doors at JC Penney opened.

"I thought they were crazy when we started driving and no one was on the road," Mossalam said. "But once we got here, there were some really good sales."

Tommy DeGennaro said the traffic at Smith Haven seemed to be down from previous years, perhaps as much as 40 percent. But Mossalam was surprised how quickly the shopping crowd multiplied. "We were third in a line at JC Penney," she said, "and just stepped out for a moment. When we went to get back in line, it had grown to about 50 people."

Still, not all of the early-bird shoppers felt the effort and lack of sleep paid off.

Lisa Palmeri of Mount Sinai, making her fourth consecutive Black Friday appearance at Smith Haven Mall, didn't think there were enough bargains.

"The sales are so-so," she said. "I didn't think it was worth it this year."

Black Friday ads drove Sriteja Rao, 23, of Hicksville to shop at the Broadway Mall at dawn. "We've been out since four this morning. We started our morning at Sports Authority in Westbury," Rao said of his shopping trip with his girlfriend, Lauren Loechner, 25 of Merrick. "We thought that in 2006 and 2007 discounts were better."

Despite that, the couple bought a $365 elliptical machine -- which typically costs $500.

"When you look at the ads Thanksgiving Day, it really enticed," said Rao, who added that he was disappointed that Steve & Barry's, the retailer in bankruptcy court, was closed at the time.

"But the problem is some stores like Best Buy have limited quantities," he said, adding that consumers were pretty calm.

[Fletch XXX]

wonder what the person who stomped em bought

[Juicy D. Links]

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

wonder what the person who stomped em bought

thermal underwaerssssssssssss

[mona]

People are freakin' CRAZY!

[alias]

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

wonder what the person who stomped em bought

That's easy, BOOTS.

[pornguy]

They need to find out who did and charge them with murder.

[LoriAnderson]

thats nutssss! (poor guy) I don't shop the day after Thanksgiving the lines are way toooo long...

[Stallion]

thats crazy...

[Juicy D. Links]

i just went to Walmart Axe body wash was on sale....

i see the linesss i leave

[HorseShit]

people are so fucking stupid

[Drake]

The shoppers who did it will probably be watching news reports about it on their new 50 inch Samsung Plasma

[Dejan]

That's insane...

[DonX]

Damn, what a way to go

[moviepost dot net]

Walmart can go to hell for being morons and not issuing tickets to people on a first come first serve basis instead of letting them trample through the store like rioting dildos to try and grab the stuff they want before everyone else.

The people that participate and act like these dildos can go to hell for being the useless ignorant dumb sons-of-bitches that they are.

[WebairGerard]

damn i used to hang in that mall when i was a teenager. really should put an end to these door buster deals. fucking people are getting killed over this dumb crap.

[Klen]

It's kind a stupid when discounts are only one day avaible.I mean why it such a problem to extend it to one or two days.More money could be earned,beacuse more people will be able to buy then and no toomuch crowd then.

[SilentKnight]

Those who aren't students of history are prone to repeat it.

Wal-Mart should've taken a lesson from 'festival seating' at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.

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

[dav3]

thats pathetic to break down doors and trample a person to the ground because people wanted to save a couple bucks on some dumb shit

[Bojangles]

NOt surprised.

[cybermike]

thats walmart is 5 min away from me :O

[gornyhuy]

Humanity is RIPE for extermination.

[DaddyHalbucks]

Some very basic crowd control could have prevented it.

[collegeboobies]

shop online, MUCH less rick of death

[Spunky]

Fuckin animals

[brassmonkey]

im wearing a helmet this year

[Martin]

Sick society we live in. People have been reduced to this.

[Chit Chat]

Very sad.

[WWC]

wow ...people are so stupid sometimes...

[kane]

I wonder how much this will cost Walmart.

They should have had some kind of basic crowd control.

And how pathetic is it that people will trample each other to get a cheap DVD player or Laptop?

[Horny Dude]

Can you smell the law suit brewing out of this one. The family of the poor guy is prob getting 100's of phone calls right now from lawyers all looking to get paid. Wal-Mart will settle of course and this will all get swept under the rug before X-mas

[Ron Bennett]

Wal-Mart will likely do an out of court settlement, eventually, and chalk it up as a cost of doing business. Such chaos has happened before at Wal-Marts in the past - sadly, this is nothing new.

And anyways they'll write much of that expense off / shift to insurers ...

IMHO, such incidents may actually help retailers - yes, you read that right!...

Black Friday in the minds of some is akin to Running of the Bulls ... the excitement of fighting the crowds and testing one's wits and survival tactics to get the coveted prize of the doorbuster special.

Ron

[Useless Warrior]

Those toothless dim-witted Wal-Mart shoppers should be forced to lick the lead paint off of all the crap they purchased. Of course, many of those genetically inferior bargain hunters had their share of lead paint as children.

I can't drive through a Wal-Mart parking lot without thinking that I must have taken a wrong turn and somehow ended up in Appalachia. I swear, one time, I heard banjo music.

[Manowar]

wow, that's fucked up

[teg0]

saw the video of it on liveleak.

[cherrylula]

In third world countries people get stampeded and killed at religious gatherings.

In the USA, it happens on black friday at Walmart.

People get really emotional over stupid shit!

[cherrylula]

Originally Posted by teg0

saw the video of it on liveleak.

and then this.

I fucking love the internet and these times we live in.

[who]

Originally Posted by gornyhuy

Humanity is RIPE for extermination.

I second that.