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Edited by noehlp, Nov 28, 2008 - 2:46 pm.
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 2:22 pm
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Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 2:40 pm
I know alot of people dislike Walmart but you can't blame them for people's behavior.
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 2:46 pm
Walmart is responsible for what happens within their doors. When they see a huge crowd of people standing outside those doors, it's a pretty easy guess that as soon as those doors open, there's going to be a lot of pushing and shoving to get in. Past experience alone should have taught them that.
I am by no means absolving the people who blindly stepped over or around the fallen man, but when you're in the middle of a pushing and shoving crowd, there's not a whole lot one person can do to get out of the way. Stopping means injury.
Walmart is responsible for the safety of their employees and customers. Period.
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 2:47 pm
While Walmart might need a better BF policy, in the end it was the people waiting outside who were acting like animals.
"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else." ~ Woody Allen
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 2:52 pm
This is so sad
. Ultimately it is the crowd who is responsible for this mans death, but since this seems to happen at Walmart every year, you would think they would have some kind of security measures in place. Couldn't they only let so many people in at a time, to avoid the whole mad rush?
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 3:01 pm
Cationary on this video! It shows emergency personnel working on the victim, not the trampling of him. If you are faint of heart, don't watch it. ~ Patty
Is this the video from the trampling?
http://www.cbsnews.c...in4637170.shtml
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 3:07 pm
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Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 3:41 pm
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 3:45 pm
I hope they sue walmart this is ridiculous:no:
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 3:48 pm
I guess I just don't understand how a sell by WalMart encourages people to act like that. I guess I was just raised a little different. for me just because a store is having a sell does not give me the right to run over people and I sure did not see Wal Mart employees encouraging people to trample each other. I seen a lot of aggrevated employees who could not believe the level people would stoop to to save a dollar.I think WM can and should be sued. Not because they didn't have adequate security, but because they seem to encourage a "dash and grab" or "blitz" environment AND this has caused major problems in the past. What have they done to address this issue? This was preventable. We have a local store here that also did the dash and grab thing last year. Once they opened their doors, the employees were lined up on both sides of the "runway" cheering and clapping while people ran to the back of the store to get the limited quantity doorbusters. They also had someone on the store PA system encouraging people to hurry if they wanted to get the items. Based on a environment like that how can anyone say the store isn't encouraging people to act unsafely on their property? To me having a crowd run through a store is an unsafe act.
I think the Toys R Us situation from today is a different situation. From what I understand it was two "rivals" doing the shooting. When I hear that, I think of gang activity. Not much a store can do to prevent that, other than have metal detectors. A big difference is Toys R Us didn't encourage people to hurt each other to get the good stuff. WM (and some other stores) encourage people to act unsafely to get the good stuff.
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 3:59 pm
If walmart is sued then they should review cameras and sue the people that actually killed the man.
This mentality of suing establishments for general human faults has got to stop. People need to start taking responsibility for their own actions. I'm sure some of the people that realize they killed that man are right now reasoning to themselves that it is walmarts fault he is dead and not their own. Sad state of humanity.
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 4:00 pm
Well, ultimately if you cannot see how walmart encourages that behavior then you won't be able to see it if someone explains it to you.I guess I just don't understand how a sell by WalMart encourages people to act like that. I guess I was just raised a little different. for me just because a store is having a sell does not give me the right to run over people and I sure did not see Wal Mart employees encouraging people to trample each other. I seen a lot of aggrevated employees who could not believe the level people would stoop to to save a dollar.
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 4:02 pm
True very true. I guess I just have not witnessed it. At my walmart employees were not encouraging that kind of actions. Sorry. None of the stores I visted encouraged that. They all had sells just like walMart. I also do not want to see it. Sorry you have had to. I also do not believe in taking the blame from the actual individuals who did this. Not WalMart but people.Well, ultimately if you cannot see how walmart encourages that behavior then you won't be able to see it if someone explains it to you.
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Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 4:06 pm
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 4:08 pm
I agree but I bet the lawyers are already talking to the family of the employee...People don't take responsibility for their own actions anymore (okay some of us do, but we seem to have abandoned any concept of right and wrong). There is a sense of entitlement that I don't understand and have tried to keep my children from following in.
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 4:08 pm
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 4:10 pm
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 4:22 pm
Cationary on this video! It shows emergency personnel working on the victim, not the trampling of him. If you are faint of heart, don't watch it. ~ Patty
Is this the video from the trampling?
http://www.cbsnews.c...in4637170.shtml
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 4:27 pm
Well, ultimately if you cannot see how walmart encourages that behavior then you won't be able to see it if someone explains it to you.
http://www.liveleak....=f59_1227894726
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 4:35 pm
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 4:46 pm
If I am responsible for someone who gets hurt on my property how can WalMart not be responsible for what happened today? Granted, those who became part of the stampede are also responsible but, as in any situation when something goes wrong, you have to ask, where did it first go wrong?
Posted Nov 28, 2008 - 4:53 pm
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