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Show Page 12 OREM TIMES Thursday, December 4, 2008 NEWS, STORIES AND EVENTS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD A Wal-Mart worker was killed by a stampede of holiday shoppers the day after Thanksgiving in New pk What should be done to ensure employees and shoppers are protected from crowd violence on Black liday? Have you or a family member shopped on the day after Thanksgiving before? How was the experience? :? fc 3 V 7 L.il,aJja-;.um.,,w1B,1 rl1)ii . iw..-, J v. will" I think they can do something about it. From what I understand, he the victim was the only one at the door. They need to open more doors at the same time or have more people to divide the traffic." Aaron Nelson "That's a tough question. I imagine when there's a big crowd like this there's bound to be pushing. Maybe more police or security. You can't really re-ally control this when there's a crowd like this. We don't want crowds. You can still find some good bargains but we don't want to be in crowds. I shop and plan ahead." I Lily Day "I've had this thought, but I don't know if it's right. Maybe to not have so many amazing sales the day after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiv-ing. It's too big and crazy. I avoid that day at all costs and stay at home, safe.' I never have and I don't even really go to the grocery store that day. I really don't want to be in the crowds." I Sarah Reinwand 3 CZ "Yeah, it's crazy. I don't know why people are in that big of a hurry that they have to fight other people. Better security, secu-rity, I guess, police. We did last Friday. We went to the Provo Towne Centre mall and it was just like any other business day. We went in the afternoon and it wasn't crowded." I Ethan Gallentine "It was so sad. I would have to say exercise more awareness aware-ness of people around you. People need to be more considerate. con-siderate. I think it's ridiculous that no one stopped to help. My mother-in-law goes sometimes. some-times. I've never gone. Just the craziness. It should be fun, not people shoving each other." I Ashley Van Bloem "Maybe if there was greater accountability with the actual ac-tual stores that marketed that day. If the sale wasn't on that day maybe there would be a safer thing for the public. We haven't shopped on Black Friday. Fri-day. We'd just rather not go through all that. The savings aren't worth the headaches and long lines." I Semisi Tukuafu "I would probably put up road blinds and have every one in a line but not in a big crowd at the door. If it's done in an orderly fashion, and every one is in line, you won't have that problem. I try to avoid it. I really don't like to be pushed through the aisles." I Stephanie Falck "I just think the whole thing is ridiculous. I used to work at Circuit City. I'd see crowds come through but not like that. I think people need to exercise restraint. The stores could have special lines and usher people in and not allow a big throng of people through the door at one time. But it doesn't surprise me that it happened. You have to regulate it somehow. some-how. There has to be more responsibility re-sponsibility on the stores' part to regulate it." I Jeremy Glenn "My thoughts when we heard about it happening is that the company that organized orga-nized the event should actu-ally actu-ally be better prepared to deal with crowds. I'm not saying -that any one person was at fault; it was a group mentality. mental-ity. They need to get people in one or two at a time to keep people safer next time. I have shopped on Black Friday. I've never been in a situation that aggressive, but I have been in situations where I felt uncomfortable. uncom-fortable. I think I would have recognized that I wanted to be in a safer place." I Dell Norris I guess, don't have events like that. You don't open the door to everybody. every-body. No, I'm too lazy I guess to shop that day." 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