Woman trampled in Wal-Mart

**smokey the elder** · 12-01-2003, 08:04 AM

That's why I like the Internet. I only have to compete with my SO for the 'puter and he doesn't get up before noon on the weekends.

**ramanth** · 12-01-2003, 11:14 AM

I feel sorry for the poor people that have to unlock and open the doors.

Hope the woman gets better soon.

**2kitties** · 12-01-2003, 11:26 AM

All I can say is that is what you get for going to WalMart. I avoid that place like the plague on a good day, much less on Black Friday.

**tikeyas_mom** · 12-01-2003, 12:45 PM

Originally posted by ILoveReptiles
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! *SNORT*

WAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Moooo!!! Bleat bleat MOOO!!!! Must... GET... DVD PLAYER!!!!

Oh man I needed that laugh.

I do hope she's ok though. But that's DAMN funny.

I agree that is pritty funny lol. it reminds me of my school lol. Ppl get knocked over and trampled in traffic , it is horrid , but meh everyone is so rushes that we have no time to stop and if you do haoppen to stop int he halls you will get pushed over and trampled.. lol.... poor lady I am glad she is ok though ..

**Prairie Purrs** · 12-01-2003, 02:14 PM

If you own a business and you invite people to come spend their money at your business, you're required to protect those people from reasonably foreseeable hazards on business property--even if those hazards are caused by third parties.

Wal-Mart didn't do that. The store managers should have known that their big sale would attract crowds waiting for the store to open--that's what Wal-Mart wanted and that's why they spent the big bucks on advertising. So they should have hired enough security people to restrain the crowds and get them through the doors in an orderly fashion.

No one should "expect" to be seriously injured when he or she responds to an advertised event at a business. We should expect businesses to conduct such events in an safe and orderly fashion.

**moosmom** · 12-02-2003, 12:24 PM

That's why I never EVER go shopping the day after Thanksgiving. Contrary to popular believe, I really DO want to live to see age 51!

I work at Bed, Bath & Beyond and worked on black Friday. I could not believe the number of people in line waiting for the store to open, and for what??? Everyday prices, no bargains there. Strange, VEEEEEERRRRY strange.

I too hope that lady is okay. It's amazing the animal instincts that come out in some people at the smell of a bargain. *sigh*

**trayi52** · 12-02-2003, 12:29 PM

I agree with you moosmom, I will not go to Walmart or any other store on Black Friday!!

I don't go in the daytime at all when its gets this close to Christmas, I go very, very late. Like at midnight.

**RICHARD** · 12-02-2003, 05:01 PM

Originally posted by lovemyshiba

Carole--
something interesting in what you wrote--cue--that means a line, correct?

it's also a long pony tail !!!!

so,

if your cue gets trampled while you are in a cue you are in bad shape.......but then again she could have been in line to get a billiards cue instead of a DVD player......

**slick** · 12-02-2003, 05:19 PM

Originally posted by moosmom
I really DO want to live to see age 51!

51 is no different than 50. Trust me on this one.

**RICHARD** · 12-03-2003, 01:57 PM

I just thought about this...

A woman would be a better witness at picking out who trampled
her....

It was a Size 5 pair of Christian Dior slingbacks......
with the CUTEST little buckle on the front- black-
I'd wear a size 6- but I'd want a pair on beige......

**Andie** · 12-03-2003, 05:47 PM

As someone who works at Wal Mart and worked on that Friday, it's not just the shoppers that have to worry about there lives. We had people lining up before 4 o'clock that morning for a 6 o'clock sale. I seen my short little life flash before my eyes as a stack of crockpots fell almost on top of me. Needless to say I ran to the back and stayed there til I could go home (which I help unload more dvd players and *gulp* crockpots).