Black Friday har varit ett okänt begrepp för mig fram tills för någon vecka sedan. Fredagen efter Thanksgiving har blivit en traditionell shoppingdag för amerikaner, namnet lär komma från kassarapporterna där rött är minus och svart är plus.
I år är fredagen extra svart (eller röd, om det nu var minus?):
A Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) worker was killed when a crowd of unruly shoppers broke through the doors to a store early this morning in Long Island, New York, the local police official said on Friday. The 34-year-old male worker was trying to hold back the crowd of around 200 shoppers at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y. before the doors were opened at 5 a.m. EST, the time when he was trampled.
Police said four other people were hurt in the trample, including a 28-year-old pregnant woman. She was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors said her baby was fine.
Airbag skriver bra om händelsen (även om han missat att fostret tydligen var oskadat):
The Bible has a rule against coveting what your neighbor has. [...] Unfortunately, I can’t find any statistics that report if the crime rate declined YTD after the Ten Commandments were brought down from the mountain but I’ll take a guess and say probably not.
It’s convenient to point to the people who sit at the top and place all the blame on them but it’s the face in the mirror that will ensure this FUBAR situation will happen again and again and again because laws and rules, no matter from how high they are handed down, can never hold back that level of kill-to-own kind of greed.
All Headline News avslutar:
The store remained closed to incoming shoppers after the incident was reported. The shoppers in the store were escorted out with their purchases.
