I thought all Republicans were rich? What Republican would shop at Wal-Mart? Those folks had to be Dims ;)
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>> By Jack Healy and Angela Macropoulos
>> Published: November 28, 2008 by the International Herald Tribune >> (Global
>> Edition of NY Times)
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>> A Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York was trampled to death by a crush >> of
>> shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store early
>> Friday morning, turning the annual rite of post-Thanksgiving bargain >> hunting
>> into a Hobbesian frenzy.
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>> 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, New York,
>> Nassau County police said. The shoppers broke the doors off their hinges >> and
>> surged in, toppling a 34-year-old temporary employee who had been waiting
>> with other workers in the store's entryway.
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>> People did not stop to help the employee as he lay on the ground, and >> they
>> pushed against other Wal-Mart workers who were trying to aid the man. The
>> crowd kept running into the store even after the police arrived, jostling
>> and pushing officers who were trying to perform CPR, the police said. >>
>> "They were like a stampede," said Nassau Det. Lieutenant Michael Fleming.
>> "Hundreds of people walked past him, over him or around him."
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>> The employee, who was not identified, was taken from the Wal-Mart to >> nearby
>> Franklin Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:03 a.m., the police
>> said. His exact cause of death has not been determined. The police said >> that
>> three other shoppers were injured and a 28-year-old woman who was eight
>> months pregnant was taken to the hospital for observation.
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>> How is it that people in NY think that they are more civilized than those >> in
>> most other parts of the country?
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> It is strange isn't it.
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> I always thought NYers were a little bit backward except for a small
> minority, which of whom vote Republican.
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> To me, the city of New York is what the West was in the late 1800s's. > --
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> "It's deja vu all over again"
> Yogi Berra
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