Well, it’s “Black Friday [1]” again. It’s time to check out the news.
In their attempts to buy trinkets to celebrate the birth of Jesus, Wal-Mart shoppers broke through the stores’s exterior doors and trampled a Wal-Mart employee, who died during the incident.
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Yes, there’s lots of irony (and sadness) to this incident. It reminded me of a suit that my former law firm defended more than 20 years ago. It involved a shopper who was trampled by fellow shoppers when an employee of Famous-Barr (then a St. Louis department store) opened the doors in the morning, to begin a special sale. That shopper survived, but she suffered serious injuries.
A lawyer with whom I worked decided to call up our client to ask more about the incident. “What was the name of the sale,” he asked? The store’s representative answered that the sale was the annual “Door Buster Sale.”
The case settled.
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