Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

[PuZo 10+ year member]

A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.

The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.

Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.

"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back."

Nassau County Police are still investigating and would not confirm the witness accounts. The Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. Police did say there were several injuries but weren't more specific.

Jessica Keyes was among the shoppers. She told the Daily News she saw a woman knocked down just a few feet from the dying worker.

"When the paramedics came, she said 'I'm pregnant,'" Keyes said.

Paramedics treated the woman inside the store and then, according to Keys, told the woman:

"There's nothing we can do. The baby is gone."

Before police shut down the store, eager shoppers streamed past emergency crews as they worked furiously to save the store clerk's life.

"They were working on him, but you could see he was dead, said Halcyon Alexander, 29. "People were still coming through."

Only a few stopped.

"They're savages," said shopper Kimberly Cribbs, 27. "It's sad. It's terrible."

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/11/28/2008-11-28_worker_dies_at_long_island_walmart_after.html

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[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

Don't go if you can't handle it.

Dude was trying to hold them back after they opened, why would he be holding them back?

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

Sucks

 

[BushJ311 5,000+ posts]

Don't go if you can't handle it.
Dude was trying to hold them back after they opened, why would he be holding them back?

Possibly only letting in so many people at a time.

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

Happens every year.

 

[Innovative:Cory 10+ year member]

A wal-mart that isn't open 24 hours?

those still exist?

 

[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

OMG I wonder if this was the dude with the rebait checks!

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

A wal-mart that isn't open 24 hours?
those still exist?

There are a few Walmarts on Long Island that aren't open 25 hours.

Walmart isn't as big up here as it is in other places, where it's literally the ONLY place to go.

Valley Stream is ghetto as hell.

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

bunch of retards.

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

Don't go if you can't handle it.
Dude was trying to hold them back after they opened, why would he be holding them back?

making them wait till 5 store policy ..he was doing his job

 

[Justinw303 10+ year member]

A wal-mart that isn't open 24 hours?
those still exist?

I assume they probably close early on Thanksgiving day and then re-open friday morning.

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

What Walmarts stay open overnight on Thanksgiving? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif Also the crowd was forming for the 5 am black Friday sales so obviously there would be a line whether they were open or not.

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

A wal-mart that isn't open 24 hours?
those still exist?

closed for thanksgiving maybe? the ones here all closed thursday and reopened at 5 this morning

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

A wal-mart that isn't open 24 hours?
those still exist?

our Wal-mart closes at 11 now...

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

making them wait till 5 store policy ..he was doing his job

wrong, read the article

The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.