I suppose now they'll have to post big signs on the Wal-Mart front doors: "Please don't trample employees." Or, better yet, the Wal-Mart employees should just be issued electrified cattle prods, and the shoppers can be corralled into branding chutes where they're branded with ID numbers and fitted with ear tags. This would allow Wal-Mart security cameras to identity which members of the herd are responsible for causing the most death and destruction.
I've heard of religious stampedes in the Middle East, but, could it be 'getting the CHEAPEST deal' has become the new American God? I take it there were no threats from terrorists either.
Iraq stampede deaths near 1,000 (click here)
Almost 1,000 people are known to have died in a stampede of Shia pilgrims in northern Baghdad, Iraqi health officials have said.
So far, there have been at least 965 confirmed deaths, making the incident the single biggest loss of Iraqi life since the US-led invasion in 2003.
The incident happened on a river bridge as about a million Shias marched to a shrine for a religious festival.
Witnesses said panic spread over rumours of suicide bombers.
Radical Sunni groups have often targeted Shias in the past, but Iraqi officials said the tragedy had nothing to do with sectarian tension.
Many victims, mostly women, children or elderly, were crushed or drowned...
The Bush Domestic Legacy, living on 'the cheap and cheaper and cheapest..." I never shopped the day after Thanksgiving. Never have. Been too busy visiting with family and friends that have come a distance to visit. Never had the 'issue' of shopping and NOT finding the gift most sought after either. Never had these issues, don't know why others do. Maybe my value system dictates 'moral, sane life style.' It could be that I never have shopping issues because I am shopping for something other than 'the latest rave.' That might be. I guess the kids valued differently as well.
Amazing. A death on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Where are we going "W"rong?
