A worker at a WalMart in New York was trampled to death yesterday, and several others were injured trying to help him. Here's the story on Yahoo! News.
My favorite part:
Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said. [...]
Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like "savages."
"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling `I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" she said. "They kept shopping."
Not only did these people trample the poor WalMart worker to death, they got pissed when police told them they had to leave because they'd done it. Not one person in that throng of 2000 people stopped to help the poor guy. They all just trampled him or stepped over him.
This is what "Christmas" is about nowadays. It's not about love, peace, goodwill, or any of those pinko commie concepts. It's about getting the best deals on crap for your home. It's about making sure that little Johnny gets that coveted action figure or stuffed animal before anyone else. Don't worry, just kill anyone who gets in the way. It's getting to the point that we're going to have to call in the National Guard on black Friday, just to keep people from killing each other.
At the WalMart by my house, the majority of the people who shop there or work there identify as Christian, and a lot of the employees attend the megachurch just outside of town. The question I have is this: How many of these people who just walked right over the poor guy were "christian?" Odds are that there were perhaps one or two atheists or agnostics who were in the crowd, but I'll bet that most of those people so concerned with getting the latest gadget or toy were christian. And not one lifted a finger to help. How's that for morality?
