November 28th, 2008 / 10:08 pm
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“THEY TOOK THE DOORS OFF THE HINGES!” – Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back. - Jimmy Overby, Wal-Mart employee

"He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back." - Jimmy Overby, Wal-Mart employee

Fuck, man. I passed Valley Stream on the way to my cousin Jeff’s for Thanksgiving yesterday. His wife asked me if I was planning to go to any of the big special sales. It took me a minute to figure out what she was talking about, then I said “why would anybody do that?”

Catherine, I stand by most of the critiques I made on your blog a while back about Adbusters’ aesthetic etc., but seriously–if there was ever an argument for their perpetual relevance, this story is it.

Too bad nobody told those sick motherfuckers on Long Island about Buy Nothing Day. Oh, and just to give the rest of us some perspective:

Does your spouse know you stepped on someones throat today? Do your kids?

"But Mom," my kids said when I told them what I'd done. "This is a FIRST-WORLD DEMOCRACY. Things like that might happen in Mexico, but not here." I told them they would understand when they got older.

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14 Comments

  1. darby

      yawn.

  2. darby

      yawn.

  3. matthew savoca

      was walmart selling ml press chapbooks or something? i don’t get it

  4. matthew savoca

      was walmart selling ml press chapbooks or something? i don’t get it

  5. Catherine Lacey

      True, Adbusters is relevant some of the time, but the Buy Nothing campaign is mostly useless, whether Adbusters is hocking it or someone else is.

  6. Catherine Lacey

      True, Adbusters is relevant some of the time, but the Buy Nothing campaign is mostly useless, whether Adbusters is hocking it or someone else is.

  7. ModernSafari

      Remember when we were inside of an Adbusters magazine article/photo?

  8. ModernSafari

      Remember when we were inside of an Adbusters magazine article/photo?

  9. Justin Taylor

      yeah it was awesome because we were hanging out with that famous author.

  10. Justin Taylor

      yeah it was awesome because we were hanging out with that famous author.

  11. peter

      definitely the worst way to die, for the following reasons.

      1. you are working at wal-mart.
      2. you are only a temp.
      3. you are wearing a blue polyester vest.
      4. you are trampled.
      5. you are obviously trampled by fat morons because they’re rushing into wal-mart.
      6. your loved ones have to pick up your last paycheck and they realize you were making $5/hour.
      7. ruined your plot to dynamite the store and start an anarchist revolution.

  12. peter

      definitely the worst way to die, for the following reasons.

      1. you are working at wal-mart.
      2. you are only a temp.
      3. you are wearing a blue polyester vest.
      4. you are trampled.
      5. you are obviously trampled by fat morons because they’re rushing into wal-mart.
      6. your loved ones have to pick up your last paycheck and they realize you were making $5/hour.
      7. ruined your plot to dynamite the store and start an anarchist revolution.

  13. peterb

      buy everything day

  14. peterb

      buy everything day