Black Friday's first death - Wal-Mart clerk dies as crowd rushes in

[Zombie]

Originally Posted by David

Your comment reminded me of an excellent essay by Richard Mitchell, written back in 1980, about the deadly stampede at the Who concert & Mike Royko's column & reaction to it:

Thank you for that, David. That was a great read. And rings very true.

How cheap does it have to be for you to decide that getting to your seat just isn't worth the hassle of trampling a few people to death, people who may in any case die every three second?

I can easily see the folks frothing at the mouth to get into that Wal-Mart writing those letters to Royko. Hell, perhaps one or two of them WERE ones that wrote to Royko.

I wanted to laugh at the grammar and spelling, but then I realized that it's just par for the course - anyone that could try to somehow justify trampling people to death over something so petty and ridiculous has got to be working with an IQ of about 4.