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J.J. Blair

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Chinese shoppers stampeded to death...
« on: November 10, 2007, 09:33:48 PM »
... and the Who weren't even playing.

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BEIJING, China (AP) -- Shoppers eager to buy goods on sale stampeded at a Carrefour supermarket in southwestern China on Saturday, trampling three people to death and injuring at least 31, state media reported.

Shoppers slipped as they rushed through a door at the Carrefour in Chongqing city at 8:30 a.m. to snap up sale items, and those that fell were then crushed by other shoppers, the Web sites of the Xinhua News Agency and People's Daily reported.

The People's Daily said the shoppers had lined up outside the store since 4 a.m. to buy discounted rapeseed oil used for cooking.

In addition to the three dead, Xinhua said that seven among the 31 injured were seriously hurt. Police in Chongqing said they had heard about the accident but declined to independently confirm the media accounts.

Telephone calls to French-based Carrefour SA's China headquarters in Shanghai rang unanswered.
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Tidewater

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Re: Chinese shoppers stampeded to death...
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2007, 10:30:02 PM »
All after that new military toy, G.I. Unleaded, or that date rape toy.. HHB dots, or somesuch.

The pairing is old enough.. everyone, meet daterape.


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Hank Alrich

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Re: Chinese shoppers stampeded to death...
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2007, 10:41:58 PM »
So, is Carrefour Chinese for WalMart or something?
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Tidewater

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Re: Chinese shoppers stampeded to death...
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2007, 10:56:54 PM »
That'd be like -insert tasteless death camp commissary joke-.

Tsk! I'd expected much more from you!


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Jon Hodgson

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Re: Chinese shoppers stampeded to death...
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2007, 06:09:44 AM »
Hank Alrich wrote on Sun, 11 November 2007 03:41

So, is Carrefour Chinese for WalMart or something?


Carrefour is actually a French supermarket chain.
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ssltech

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Re: Chinese shoppers stampeded to death...
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2007, 09:02:46 AM »
Delete 'Supermarket', insert 'Hypermarket'.

Carrefour, Mammouth, Rallye... I remember them all from regular trips to France in the 1970's... They were simply GIGANTIC by comparison with even the largest British Supermarkets.

-Of course Wal-Mart's expansion and global encroachment has more recently recalibrated everyone's sense of scale, but in this case, I think it's probably safe to say that the French probably did it on that scale sooner than most others...

Keith
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MDM (maxdimario) wrote on Fri, 16 November 2007 21:36

I have the feeling that I have more experience in my little finger than you do in your whole body about audio electronics..

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Re: Chinese shoppers stampeded to death...
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2007, 09:43:27 AM »
Attention Shoppers: Death in Aisle 3, Death in Aisle 3.
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ssltech

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Re: Chinese shoppers stampeded to death...
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2007, 10:43:14 AM »
...We currently have a 'blue light special' on coffins in Aisle 274...
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MDM (maxdimario) wrote on Fri, 16 November 2007 21:36

I have the feeling that I have more experience in my little finger than you do in your whole body about audio electronics..

Tidewater

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Re: Chinese shoppers stampeded to death...
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2007, 12:34:16 PM »
Crean up..



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Re: Chinese shoppers stampeded to death...
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2007, 06:30:28 PM »
Tidewater wrote on Sat, 10 November 2007 19:30

All after that new military toy, G.I. Unleaded, or that date rape toy.. HHB dots, or somesuch.

The pairing is old enough.. everyone, meet daterape.


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And trampling each other over rapeseed oil.

Everyone, meet daterapeseed oil.
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Re: Chinese shoppers stampeded to death...
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2007, 12:49:05 AM »
From Time:

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