Here’s a piece of news that reads like a dark satire:
A Wal-Mart employee on Long Island was killed this morning by crazed, stampeding shoppers, who actually broke down the doors of the store at its 5:00am opening time.
According to Reuters, four shoppers — one of them a pregnant woman — were also injured in the rush, and taken to hospital.
I don’t even know what more to say about this, beyond the fact that it’s a pretty sickening, real-life allegory for our consumerist addiction.
One American family suddenly has a whole lot less to be thankful for.
Photo by Brave New Films (Creative Commons)
Eva Holland
Eva Holland is a freelance writer, Senior Editor of World Hum and a longtime contributor to the Matador community. She lives in Canada’s Yukon Territory and blogs about Alaska and Yukon travel at Travelers North.
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