'Wal-Mart employee trampled to death' in Black Friday madness, NYT

At 4:55 a.m., just five minutes before the doors were set to open, a crowd of 2,000 anxious shoppers started pushing, shoving and piling against the locked sliding glass doors of the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y., Nassau County police said. The shoppers broke the doors off their hinges and surged in, toppling a 34-year-old temporary employee, Jdimypai Damour, 34, of Jamaica, Queens, who had been waiting with other workers in the store’s entryway.

BUT I JUST HAVE TO BUY THESE FUZZY SLIPPERS FOR MY WIFE WHILE THEY ARE ON SALE. AND MY CHILD NEEDS A WII!  HE IS THE ONLY KID IN HIS SECOND-GRADE CLASS WHO DOESN’T HAVE ONE!  IT IS ESSENTIAL LIKE FOOD AND WATER AND ALL THE RESOURCES THAT WE CARELESSLY POUR INTO PRODUCTS WE DON’T NEED AND THEN TRAMPLE EACH OTHER TO CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME THE DAY AFTER WE SLAUGHTER 45 MILLION TURKEYS FOR THE PLEASURE OF OUR TASTEBUDS.  IT’S TRADITION, DAMN IT.