Nathaniel West ended his novel, Day of the Locust, with a riot at a movie premiere, a riot that left several people dead or injured. Today, the shoppers at a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, NY, left only one person dead and three injured. Unlike, West's fictional characters, these were people who actually had a life in Valley Stream and elsewhere. Yet, because of the insanity and greed of some people, the victims' lives were cut short or interrupted.
The shoppers started lining up at 9 p.m. last night. By the time the store opened at 5 a.m. today there were 2,000 of them. They attacked the store and everybody else who was in the way of their getting a bargain. They broke the doors off the hinges and walked right over people who had fallen.
What have we become?
1 comment:
Where were the riot cops? Gather 20 hippies together and there would have been 20 in turtle gear to watch their every step.
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