Last week marked the official beginning of the Holiday Season, starting of course with Thanksgiving. If you’re one of those Americans who feel they need to burn those Thanksgiving calories, perhaps your method is getting up early and hitting the stores on Black Friday. Take for example the eager shoppers who stood outside a Wal-Mart in Long Island in the early morning hours. They were so excited to run into the store they didn’t seem to care about the Wal-Mart employee they were running over. I hope the Tickle Me Elmo, iPod, etc. was worth it…wait no I don’t, they killed the employee.
Reports say that dozens of store employees fought their way out to help the man, being trampled by the crowd in the process. Witnesses say that even as the worker lay on the ground, shoppers entering the store simply stepped over him. The AP spoke to Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede. Cribbs said shoppers were acting like "savages."
"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling 'I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" she said. "They kept shopping."
Thanksgiving, the day were we’re supposed to talk about the things we’re, get this, most “thankful” for, you know family, friends, a home, food, things like that. Christmas gifts, 50% off sales, we shouldn’t put them above what’s more important, especially when it comes to a human life. A man is dead because a crowd of people just had to get those discounts. It’s amazing how in a crowd of 2,000 people, there was a group who just couldn’t realize what they were doing.
You know the media is right when they say how this will be one of the worst Holiday shopping seasons, look what happened.
You know, I’m dreaming of a polite Christmas.
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