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Walmart Pepper Spray Suspect Surrenders

And Target shopper dies, ignored by Black Friday shoppers

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 26, 2011 4:45 PM CST

(Newser) – A woman who may have pepper-sprayed Walmart shoppers over an Xbox purchase yesterday turned herself in last night but refused to discuss the details, the AP reports. Hours after pepper spray was used in the "competitive shopping" incident, an unidentified woman showed up at an LA-area police station—and refused to talk, invoking her right against self-incrimination. The cops have let her go pending further inquiry.

In another Black Friday incident, 61-year-old Walter Vance collapsed while shopping at a Target in South Charleston, West Virginia—and lay there while shoppers ignored him. An ER nurse eventually noticed him and he was rushed to hospital, where he later died, possibly from heart problems that have dogged him for years, WSAZ reports. "Where is the good Samaritan side of people?” said a friend of his. “How could you not notice someone was in trouble? I just don't understand if people didn't help what their reason was, other than greed because of a sale."

Shoppers wheel their purchases out of a Walmart store in Los Angeles, California, before dawn on Black Friday.
Shoppers wheel their purchases out of a Walmart store in Los Angeles, California, before dawn on Black Friday.   (Getty Images)
A shopper at a Walmart in North Fayette, Pa., loads her purchases into her car on in this Jan 4, 2007 file photo.
A shopper at a Walmart in North Fayette, Pa., loads her purchases into her car on in this Jan 4, 2007 file photo.   (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, file)
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realtruth
Nov 28, 2011 7:29 AM CST
If this happened in china we would have ridiculed them..   Oh yea we did...
Toria
Nov 27, 2011 9:40 AM CST
In response to his "friend" asking where all the good Samaritans were while her friend was lying there... I would say that the ER nurse was the "Good Samaritan". Too bad other people ignored him, it's hard telling how long he was lying there. In a tragedy, seconds seem like forever (ever see someone have a seizure? 20-30 seconds seems like a very long time while it is happening)... maybe that's why they say you see your life flash before your eyes, time is relative. Thank you, ER nurse, for being a good Samaritan and helping this man in his last hours of need instead of heading for that present you could have gotten for a few dollars cheaper, like it sounds like so many shoppers did in their time of greed.
flapstick
Nov 27, 2011 8:08 AM CST
the human race never ceases to amaze me.. 
 

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