Morons Commit the Crime, Walmart Pays the Fine

One of my pet peeves (in case you hadn't noticed) is that people don't take responsibilities for their actions. It is easier to just blame everyone else.

More and more lately, we've seen the public at large turn into a mob at a sale. (I posted a bit ago how the average IQ is inverse to the size of the crowd.) It seems like every time some "hot" new toy comes out, morons will stand in line for hours/days to get it. PS3, iPhone, xBox all come to mind.

Last year on the day after Thanksgiving, thousands of people massed outside of a Walmart in New York, all eager to get in on the so called door-buster sales. Well, with thousands in the mob, you can figure out that the average IQ must have been lower than the number of times a year that Paris Hilton remembers to wear panties in public.

Anyway, the Walmart doors opened and the herd of cattle, err I mean mob of shoppers, stampeded injuring a number of people and trampling a Walmart employee to death.

Now it'd be difficult, but not impossible to identify those idiots from the various security tapes.

Instead, however, the county prosecutor took the easy way out and went after Walmart. They've settled and Walmart is now going to pay for the actions of the moronic mass of shoppers.

Walmart screwed up by not having better crowd-control. Nevertheless, they DID at least try to have crowd-control. Though, from the sounds of things they really needed the NYPD Riot Squad.

Wal-Mart to pay $2 million after employee's death - CNN.com: ""