{"id":2559,"date":"2008-11-28T21:31:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2008-11-28T21:31:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T20:31:17","slug":"black-friday-stampede-walmart-valley-stream-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2008\/11\/28\/black-friday-stampede-walmart-valley-stream-li\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday Stampede @ Walmart &#8211; Valley Stream, LI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2008\/11\/28\/2008-11-28_worker_dies_at_long_island_walmart_after.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Daily News\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.nydailynews.com\/img\/2008\/11\/29\/alg_walmart_police.jpg?resize=450%2C279\" alt=\"What is wrong with people?\" width=\"450\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">What is wrong with people? <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Daily News\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.nydailynews.com\/img\/2008\/11\/29\/amd_walmart_crowd.jpg?resize=240%2C192\" alt=\"Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede.\" width=\"240\" height=\"192\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">With our current ailing economy, there are sacrifices one has to make this holiday shopping season. Unfortunately, the temporary maintenance worker at the Valley Stream, Long Island Walmart didn&#8217;t think he would be the sacrificial lamb of the post-Thanksgiving consumer onslaught. How can people be this stupid?  Where is the common sense and decency that is our responsibility as a people to one another? Is this the change for which we fought so hard? Obviously our right to consume has consumed us. My heart goes out to the worker&#8217;s family and friends and the poor pregnant woman who miscarried after also being pushed to the ground and trampled underfoot.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2008\/11\/28\/2008-11-28_worker_dies_at_long_island_walmart_after.html\" target=\"_blank\">Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"byline\">BY JOE GOULD<br \/>\nDAILY NEWS WRITER\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/11\/28\/black-friday-stampede-kil_n_146967.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our current ailing economy, there are sacrifices one has to make this holiday shopping season. Unfortunately, the temporary maintenance worker at the Valley Stream, Long Island Walmart didn&#8217;t think he would be the sacrificial lamb of the post-Thanksgiving consumer onslaught. How can people be this stupid? Where is the common sense and decency that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[374,956],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-mass-hysteria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-Fh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}