More Tales of the Wal-Mart

Posted on December 26, 2003 by Gene

I wonder what happened to that story about the woman who was trampled at Wal-Mart last month? You know, the one who turned out to be a “serial faller?”
Well, never fear — there is a never-ending supply of toothless morons who shop at the altar of low prices and lowest common denominators. Read on.

Matthew Baures loves Christmas, but he learned the hard way that there is very little holiday cheer while waiting in line at a Wal-Mart on Christmas Eve.

The 22-year-old Berwyn man was pummeled with a baseball bat and beaten by as many as four people after a dispute over a place in line at a Forest Park Wal-Mart.

“I couldn’t believe someone would actually do this on Christmas Eve,” Baures said Thursday as he nursed a bruised eye and aching tailbone and ribs.

Although a crowd formed, no one came to their aid, Baures said. But someone did provide police with the license plate number of a light-colored Cadillac in which some of the men fled. Others left in a different car.

Baures said Wal-Mart security did little to either calm the situation in the store or break up the fight in the parking lot. No one answered the store’s phone on Thursday.