Should people who callously ran over a man to get the best deal on a GPS unit or a plasma TV be punished?
I've heard many say that Wal-Mart should have provided better security. I agree that they could have prepared a little better, but do you think it's so much to ask people NOT to trample their workers? Is that something they really should have anticipated?
Reports said that even after paramedics arrived, the crowd wouldn't give them room and kept pushing and jostling paramedics. Then they were angry when they actually closed the store down. What kind of people are these??
So what's your opinion? Should the people who trampled him be punished? They have video and can identify the people who stepped on him.
Personally I think they should at LEAST give what they bought that day to charity. I can't imagine watching my loved ones open my "great deal" on Christmas morning, while elsewhere a family is mourning the loss of that man.
I totally agree about opening a gift like that . It is like you will say "here you go ,,I had to help kill a man to get it , but I got it" I do not think that wal-mart needs to be blamed . According to the story that I read the shoppers tore the door off and trampled the man. Now it is a clear door so they could see him there and if they weren't acting like heathens then they would not have killed him . So yes I think that the shoppers should be held accountable.
I think they should definitely be punished. I mean the man died. It's serious and when people tried to help him they also got trampled. It's so sad I mean what is wrong with people. It saddens me! :(
Yes. What they did was inexcusable.
It would be impossible to identify all of the stampeders. The ones who actually stepped on the worker may not be at fault. In a stampede, the crowd rushing from behind will shove people forward. When you are being shoved very hard from behind, it is hard to keep your footing, and it is a panicky situation, because you become aware that if you fall down you could be trampled and killed, so those people were fighting for their own lives, too. It is likely that it happened so fast that the people did not even have a chance to look down to see what they were stepping on. With the crowd shoved around them, they may not have been able to see even if they looked down. And, even if they looked down and saw the situation, it is likely that they were being shoved forward so hard that it would be impossible for them to stop or step aside.
Stampedes are the fault of those who set up the conditions to trigger the stampede. In this case, I fault Walmart, and in particular, Walmart management and security. If the police were aware of the crowd, then they, too, failed to intercede in this dangerous situation. I wonder if a permit is required when planning for a crowd this size. Walmart security should have consulted with police when they saw the size of the crowd. Walmart should have instituted crowd management techniques, like setting up barricades or line mazes, using address systems to speak to the crowd, etc. Walmart should have had experienced people managing the opening.
Walmart is at fault for deliberately planning to draw a large crowd and then failing to institute proper safety procedures to manage that large crowd. This outcome was entirely predictable. The fact that they left an untrained temp worker to stand in the door to face that massive and potentially dangerous mob is an act of negligence rising to the level of reckless disregard for human life.
Somewhere in that store is a photo or video of that crowd. I personally think they should all be convicted of a "partial sentence" as a group (set up a new precedence then!) and the judge presiding over the case should give each person involved in that "capitalistic calamity" a severe fine to each. Imagine the trepidation of the man's family having to explain to any of his not-so-close relatives who may live on the other side of the country or even out of the country, the "real" reason he died. Any other form of murder is given just cause by law. I just hope that some form of justice is served for this man's death.
Only in America....
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