Death By Stampede @ Wally World (R.I.P. Jdimytai Damour ) (from "Cyber Monday's" Democracy Now)
Wal-Mart Worker Crushed to Death in Early Morning Stampede of Shoppers on
Black Friday
(Note; MP3 file is the actual portion of Democracy Now! the hour long program and runs close to 6 minutes)
(copied from Amy's site)
A Wal-Mart employee in Long Island, New York died after being trampled to death by a mob of shoppers on Friday, the traditional first day of the holiday shopping season. The 34-year-old worker Jdimytai Damour was killed after a crowd of 2,000 broke down store doors and ran over him shortly before the store"s schedule 5 a.m. opening. Four shoppers were injured in the stampede. Nassau County police were trying to determine what happened during the stampede, but said it was unclear if there would be any criminal charges [includes rush transcript].
Death @ Walmart by Democracy Now!
From Amy Goodman's Monday December first 2008 Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/1/stream
What a horrible way to go and yet if you listen to this story you have to wonder how Wal-Mart gets away with this especially knowing that the doors of said Valley Stream Wal-Mart came off their tracks last year as well. I hope the family files suit and OSHA fines the @#$%^&* out of Wal-mart.
Note; Here's a link to a piece in the New York times; NYT's Piece
ALSO from a good write (& comments ) From Jessica Gottlieb's Word Press Blog
& another good write / comments from
