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The way that some people will stand in line for hours while waiting for a certain store to open its doors is amazing to me. The worst part is that some of these waiting customers will run over anyone who happens to be in their way when those doors do open.
NEW YORK (AP) — A Wal-Mart worker was killed Friday when "out-of-control" shoppers desperate for bargains broke down the doors at a 5 a.m. sale. Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers shouted angrily and kept shopping when store officials said they were closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.
At least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries, and the store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening.
Police said criminal charges were possible in the case, but Fleming said it would be difficult to identify individual shoppers. Authorities were reviewing surveillance video.
Do we no longer have any sense or decency in this country?
Meanwhile, violence broke out between what could possibly be gang members at a Toys 'R' Us in California.
PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) — Two people were shot to death in a crowded toy store Friday in a confrontation apparently involving rival groups, city officials said.
The violence erupted on Black Friday, the traditional post-Thanksgiving start of the holiday shopping surge, but accounts of what occurred inside the store were fragmentary or second hand and it was not clear whether it involved any shopping frenzy.
"Some people got into a fight," said Splain, who spoke with some of the customers. "One of the guys here thought it was over a toy but it got louder and louder and then there were gunshots."
Tis the season, I guess.
