Thank got we've some pictures of the poor guy dying. Isn't it nice to watch that video and get upset about it? Okay, the viewpoint isn't exactly the best one, it would have been better to see a closeup of him. Maybe there would have been even some blood visible?

Sarcastic? Why, thats just the everyday-capitalism you do all the time over there in gods own country.
Have fun, greetings from a part pf the world where we don't die from shopping people...

We should just stop listening. And I say WE, because this is our society. The world is our society, and we should quit pointing fingers and start saying no to letting this kind of BS run our lives.

I don't care where you live, you are part of this grand society as well. We are all to blame. If you want to get a look at the roots of this kind of behavior and why it's been coming for a while, read this:

http://theniftythrifty.blogspot.com/2008/01/stuff-cant-live-with-it-ca nt-throw-it.html

Anyway... after saying that, we really need to stop this Black Friday BS.

But in a way it's very understandable, and not just limited to the US. I saw similar feeding frenzies while visiting Africa, among little kids no less. They nearly trampled me and other kids trying to get candy. Greed does awful things to people, no matter where they are.

The whole point was to slow up the competition. It was a shame that the old guy I tripped got killed by some idiots behind me, but, hey, I saved $50 on that Xbox."

...so if you saved $50 on a gaming console, that's all that matters to you, and these people are just 'idiots'? They're more that that - it's just plain evil and you aren't any better. You have to at least show some respect for this man. He was a person with a family, goals, and most importantly, a life. Now it's ruined because some insane people want to get good deals on materialistic things.

How can you go about shopping knowing that an employee has just been killed? Sickening.

This took place in Texas, by the way, y'all.

When I read this story back on Friday, it made me re-think the whole Christmas tradition of buying cheap crap and foisting it off on family and friends. What about making people meals, or something? Or making donations in friend's names to charity? (Of course I say this as a guy who bought his girlfriend an iPod and some DVDs.)

I understand people want a bargain but...

As for the Toys R Us thing, I am as big a gun nut as the next Southern white male, but why was anybody in a toy store with their loaded gun??

Either way, this whole thing is sick, sad, and I agree that everyone in that stampede should be arrested and charged. There is no excuse for this sort of behavior anywhere in the world.

I send prayers and love to the family and loved ones.
for others, get back to the true meaning of CHRISTmas... celebrate the true gift of salvation.

for those who don't believe, give time and effort to your family instead of things, or give to others who don't have, they are in your own community, in other countries, maybe in your own family.

bless the world.

In Michigan, we actually form orderly lines to get in to the store. Apparently these shoppers are too stupid.

From a different Wal-Mart, I saw an interview with a mother complaining that the store was out of the mp3 player she wanted. She started complaining that because the economy is so bad, she had to have bargains to meet her kids' "needs".

Yes, I have heard all about those poor kids around the world who have to go without mp3 players. What an idiot.

But I digress, I have to respectfully disagree with Christophe, this is indicative of a problem with American consumer and greed oriented culture encouraged by the likes of wal mart and other corporations. I'm not badmouthing my America yet at the same time I'm not viewing it through rose colored glasses and think other cultures are beneath us. Certainly there are other countries that are consumer driven but can anyone prove to me that it approaches anywhere near the level of insanity in America? Where else do you see people act like animals in wanting goods they can't even afford. When you read about riots in other countries it usually involves shortage of food, or crime, or government, or things that, you know, truly make a difference between life and death, not a 42 inch plasma screen t.v. Rioting and fighting and killing over a nintendo or a tickle me elmo is definitely not a natural part of human nature, certainly not a part of what's supposed to be the most 'advanced' and 'progressive' nations in the world.

And this kind of behavior is hardly recent, growing up in the early 80's and all those toy fads and crazes, shoppers were as ruthless and violent back then as now. I think it is rather pure luck that more people have not died all these years.

Another interesting point in this post is the video : with the generalization of cam-cellphones, the Global Village is thriving. Sad, but amazing video.

Yeah, that video was first of all, not a video of the stampede, but secondly, filled with the kind of gutless commentary I equate with those who feel like documentarians just because they have a cameraphone. "Nobody wanna touch his lips." Gimme a break. And while your at it, try to actually get the subject in the frame, not that guy's GoreTex jacket.

Muggle.

The sad fact remains however, that the people who killed that poor soul, have been conditioned by the media to behave this way since birth. Consumer Pigs run rampant.