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Nov 28 2008
Death At Wal-Mart, Dead Peasants Insurance, Rhino Rant
A stock clerk at a Long Island Wal-Mart was trampled to death this morning while trying to stem the surge of crazed Black Friday shoppers. Over 200 people stepped on and around this man as he struggled to get up and breathe. A pregnant woman miscarried as a result of the melee as well.
Until 2005, Wal-Mart, as well as one-fourth of other Fortune 500 companies, carried insurance policies called COLI (Corporate Owned Life Insurance), which allowed them to collect in the event of a low-income employee’s untimely death(without the employees knowledge or compensation to their families). In the corporate world, these policies were knows as “dead janitor”, or “dead pesants” insurance. Wal-Mart sued in an attempt to keep these policies, even though the US Senate passed a law banning the practice.
Are you fucking kidding me? What the hell is wrong with people when they’ll trample another human being just so they can save a few fucking dollars? I know I’m painting with a broad brush, but how much do you wanna bet that the people who trampled this man to death are the same people that want to put the “Christ back in Christmas”?
In this age of crass consumerism, the dollar is God. A 50% off sale is more powerful than any sermon, and people will literally walk over one another to get a fucking Wii. I don’t know about you, friends and neighbors, but Black Friday has been on my “events I’ll never fucking attend…ever” list for quite a while, and now I have one more reason to avoid this spending orgy.
-yawns- yep… just woke up… staying inside alllllllllllll day.
Wow thats really fucked up man….Keep it rude…
It’s not just Wal-Mart. There was a shooting today at a Toys R Us in Palm Desert, CA. Two men are dead. As I like to say, it’s better to be dead than poor. The dead are treated better.
They are worse than herds of animals who do not know any better. I’ve never shopped on Black Friday in fact I don’t really shop much at all anymore. However, when working in retail I worked every black friday for 12 years. It was pure hell. I’ve never understood that mentality. They’re all out for the mighty dollar and don’t give a $%^& about anyone. A sad reality.
When I heard about this Friday evening I just shook my head in disgust. My wife and I were talking about it over the dinner table (I know..lovely dinner conversation) and the first thing she says is - Didn’t anyone notice they were walking on another person? Didn’t anyone stop at all to help that person up?
It’s crazy isn’t it? I’m in agreement with you (wierd how that keeps happening lately) when the hell did this country get so out of hand that a freakin sale at WalMart took precedence over human life?
This is one of those things that happen from time to time, given human nature. Did anyone even realize what they were doing? Apparently not.
btw, going back to a comment Rhino made about Christians, i have to say that the conservatives’ embrace and worship of the free market is ironic considering that it’s that very market that creates the kind of materialism and self-absorption that they say often rail against.