Question of the Day: Who Is Most to Blame For the Walmart Trampling Incident?

[wraggster]

Black Friday horror stories are inevitable, but nothing can compare to the trampling death of a 34 year old Walmart employee at the hands of a deal-crazed mob. To make matters worse, the police investigation of the surveillance tape is not turning up any leads. Naturally, an act this despicable is bound to result in finger pointing, and you have no doubt already formed a strong opinion on who is to blame here. Let us know in the poll—and feel free to vent.

http://gizmodo.com/5100474/question-of-the-day-who-is-most-to-blame-for-the-walmart-trampling-incident

[juiceface]

First and foremost, Walmart: for not securing the area unleashing a 'controlled' crowd, say checkpoints where only 10-20 people are allowed to enter at a time, wait 30 seconds, let another 10-20 people go, etc.. they can do it at disneyland they can do it at walmart. Basically a total lack of a plan other than planning on making money.

Animal Like Customers: Common human decency to not trample over people to save $50 on an item. Is a life really worth $50.00? Again it goes back to a lack of of plan, so when there is no plan in place anarchy reigns.

News media: who are just standing there waiting for this kind of thing to break out to make it the biggest news item of the day. Didn't really take part in it but still makes money and takes pleasure in covering it.

[ICE]

Who's to blame for a guy getting trampled? The people who trampled on him..

[quzar]

The same thing happened in Miami last year, but the woman survived (ended up with broken bones etc). It's a damn shame.

[livnbob]

It seems to me that the crowd which stormed wal-mart kinda represents society as a whole. This is what we've become. Inconsiderate, self-indulgent, materialistic, we're all responsible for this. We can--at least, we should--see in ourselves a little bit of everyone involved. Perhaps we, as individuals, can say that we'd do better, we'd be more patient, we'd post better security, we'd be a little more humane in how we covered the story, but until we stop trying to blame others for the problems of society as a whole, things will never change.