Thursday, December 4, 2008

Walmart Article

According to this Wal-Mart article it tells me something American people and our way of life. In the article it states how 2,000 people gathered outside Wal-Mart before the sun even came up due to the crazy good shopping sales. So what happened was that when employees opened the doors to the stores, it was a stampede of people just like a bull rush. People rushed through the doors just knocking down each other and employees just getting crushed and stepped on by the excited shoppers. But for one employee, Jdimytai Damour the stampede was too much for him and just got taken to the floor by the shoppers and died in front of employee Jimmy Overby. After he was found cops tried to perform CPR on him but that didn’t help so he was then pronounced dead.
This shows me that (please excuse my language) but that the American people just don’t give a fuck about anything/ anyone. The reason I think so is because thousands of people took an innocent employee’s life just trying to receive some sort of saving on things that can range from electronics to kitchen appliances to even furniture. People cared more about themselves and getting a big discount/ sale then actually caring about the people who worked there. According to the article, even though one man died there were other people who were knocked to the ground and practically fighting off their backs. Before the doors were suppose to open at 5 am people were already trying to knock down the doors while chanting “push the doors in.” Then the workers took noticed and tried to barricade it but that idea didn’t work out too well. The barricade of workers didn’t work and that’s how the worker died because he got squished.
The way this connects back to Americans not giving a fuck is that if they did, they would think about more than just consumer products. Someone who really cared would not have rampaged the store and thought of other people besides themselves. But there were so many people stampeding that if you were actually trying to be one of them nice people, you would get crushed. And then what pisses me off the most is that they don’t care about the employees when they are stampeding into the store, but once they found out that an employee was dead it was then a big deal. This shows that the American people sell their opinion. The way it tells me that is that they only start to care after something goes wrong. It’s like if you are one of the stampeding people then you just shouldn’t care because you are already doing the crime. It’s not right to do the crime and show you don’t care and then when something goes wrong, then care. That’s like robbing a bank and then turning yourself into the cops and apologizing. It doesn’t matter because you already did the crime and you aren’t showing what you truly believe.

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