Crazy shoppers trample Wal-mart worker to death in rush to buy
This comes from today's New York Daily News:
A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of
a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.
The 34-year-old worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.
"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back."
Read the full story and photos in the New York Daily News
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