Victims of Mammon

A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.
"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "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."

The picture above was taken by one of the shoppers on her cell phone as all hell broke loose. Excuse me for a moment, as my native New Yorker side comes out (profanity will ensue, so if that is a problem, it's time to go to another blog):
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SON OF A BITCH, PEOPLE, HOW FUCKING IMPORTANT IS A DAMN Wii GAME OR A BLOODY MICROWAVE OR SOME RATTY ASS CLOTHING THAT YOU HAVE TO ACT LIKE A BUNCHA FUCKING ANIMALS?!?!

Update:

Shots rang out today inside a Toys R Us store in Palm Desert, CA, killing two and causing shoppers at the busy store to scramble for cover.
Palm Desert Councilman Bob Spiegel told The Times that based on early reports, two rival groups shopping at the store had some kind of argument and then shots were fired. Two men were killed in the exchange of gunfire, he said.

Sara Frahm, 25, of La Quinta, was shopping for electronic toys at the time of the shooting. She told The Times she heard two women fighting and swearing in an aisle next to her. She said employees went to break up the fight and that all of the sudden a number of people yelled, “He has a gun!” She said she heard six or seven shots.