At Death’s Door

My deepest condolences go out to the family of the 34 year old man and to the young pregnant woman who lost her baby due to being knocked down when the doors opened that Black Friday morning at a Walmart on Long Island, NY. Would anyone involved in the stampede like to come forward and claim responsibility for the lives that were snuffed out because of some hot sale at Walmart? What have we come to as a society? How absolutely mind boggling to watch and absorb the footage of people being trampled under foot just to buy stuff that’s on sale!

Did anyone involved in the trampling of these people even consider that they were stepping on human beings as their hearts raced in a rush to get that plasma TV and new DVDs? As they stepped on head and heart of human flesh, injuring and ultimately killing, did they decide “It was all worth it! I will go home and never give it a second thought, and when Christmas rolls around, I will wrap my gifts with love and lie to my children telling them some fat man in a red suit brought it to them because they were ‘nice.” Well I guess someone in the family should be “nice” because if you were involved in the deaths of an innocent man and an unborn child, what will you tell your children later on? It wasn’t you? You never stepped on any one’s skull or killed them in a mad rush to get that discounted item? Wow, I didn’t know that Walmart was worth killing for! I knew that they made a killing in sales around the world, and they kill small business owner’s livelihoods by making it impossible to compete, but stampede sales?

I’m curious to know something…

Did the authorities close the doors and take statements from every person involved in the stampede? Funny, it looked to me like they were just allowed to go and shop LIKE NOTHING EVER HAPPENED! Why were they allowed to buy anything from the store that day? HUH? They should all be ashamed of themselves for this. Has anyone involved lost sleep over this? It has taken me since Friday to process all of this, and I still don’t have the proper words to say how I feel about the stampede at Deaths Door.

Update: Correction needs to be made concerning the pregnant woman…news sources now tell us that the pregnant woman did not lose her baby.