I was picking a friend up from the airport and she told me a story about how her pregnat sister had been tackled and a package had been ripped out of her hands that was on sale!   Shouldn’t this be a shocking and outrageous story?  Unfortunately, this isn’t even close to the worst that has happened this holiday season.  Check out this article.

In the past four days, America’s retail stores and malls have seen several shootings and the trampling to death of a man caught in a stampede of overeager shoppers.

Most people have probably heard about the story of the man trampled because of greedy, selfish people.  People are becoming more and more zombified.  The article continues:

“People are out of jobs, and they still want to do something for their families for Christmas,” he said.

The pressures facing today’s consumers, he said, might contribute to an uptick in crime and violence at stores.

Lt. Kevin Smith, the commanding officer of the police department’s public information office in Nassau County, N.Y. — where the Wal-Mart temp was trampled to death Friday — said shoppers “are trying to compensate for their lack of income by making sure that they get in and get in first. … The stores are getting a larger volume of people over a short period of time.

If trampling a man isn’t bad enough, listen to what else happened:

“We do feel the economy is a trigger for someone taking an opportunity to commit a crime that they otherwise would not think about,” said Joseph LaRocca, the vice president of loss prevention at the federation.

The federation has also acknowledged the violent incidents that left a disturbing mark this year on the weekend of Black Friday, the kickoff to the holiday shopping season when retailers traditionally are in the black, or turn a profit.

In addition to the Friday morning stampede that led to the Wal-Mart worker’s death, there was a spate of shootings: Two men shot each other to death at a Toys “R” Us store in Palm Desert, Calif., Friday; a pregnant woman was injured in a shooting at an Atlanta mall Saturday and armed robbers killed one man at an Express store in a suburban Miami mall Monday.

To conclude, let me say that my friend commented that she was afraid that if people are acting this way over a Christmas shopping, what would they do if their families were starving?  BINGO!  The zombies are coming.