Black Friday Turns Deadly

In what has become a consumer tradition, shoppers around the country line up early outside stores on the Friday following Thanksgiving in the annual bargain hunting ritual known as Black Friday.

Fox News is reporting that in a bizzare twist in this consumer madness, a Wal-Mart employee in New York died after bargain hunters broke down the doors to the store. The 34-year-old male employee was pronounced dead one hour after shoppers broke down the doors to the shopping center in Valley Stream, N.Y., and knocked him down at around 5 a.m. Friday, police said.

"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," Jimmy Overby, the man's 43-year-old co-worker told the New York Daily News. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too … I literally had to fight people off my back."

A 28-year-old pregnant woman was also taken in for observation and three other shoppers suffered minor injuries during the incident, police said.