12-01-2008, 07:39 AM
$tevie wrote:
I dunno. I do think that Walmart should be held responsible for that death, at least to a certain extent. When 12 people were trampled to death at the Who concert those many years ago, there was the same sort of reaction and indeed there were laws passed regarding festival seating.
Maybe stores should not whip people into a frenzy with these early openings and the threat that certain items will not be available if the customers aren't there as the doors open. Maybe the entire Black Friday concept of extreme greed and panic is just getting to be too much for these stores to deal with.
Personally, I wouldn't mind if the entire Black Friday shopping spectacle was relegated to the dust bin of history. We need to stop encouraging this sort of thing. Going Christmas shopping at the crack of dawn is madness if you ask me.
You had to go and mention the who.
I was at this concert, a few days after the Cleveland (or was it Cincinatti?) trampling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzkjueOFtm4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82bbJOAi4fE