consumerist.com — Karen Turner wants to know why Walmart employees told her that their bathroom stalls were unoccupied, even though they contained the body of Karen's husband, 41-year-old airline mechanic Steven Turner. Karen needlessly spent hours searching for her husband, who went missing after dropping off his car that morning for an oil change.
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Closed AccountFeb 4, 2008
Be fair - men wander off all the time. How was Wal-Mart to know that this was a serious issue rather than simply a case of a man not being where his wife expected him to be? In fact, SHE didn't know how serious it was until later. Do we REALLY want Wal-Mart employees peeking into bathroom stalls on a routine basis? Wal-mart offers a number of more serious issues, however. This article<a class="user" href="http://www.scragged.com/articles/wal-mart-s-representation-without-taxation.aspx">http://www.scragged.com/articles/wal-mart-s-repres ...</a>explains how Wal Mart pays bribes, sorry, "campaign contributions," to politicians in return for lower taxes. They get representation without taxation because they pay the politicians to pay attention to them. We can't afford to pay politicians to look out for us, so we get taxation without representation. Which is worse?
chesney09Feb 4, 2008
9 hours.. and no one checked the restrooms for any reason? and if it was known he was missing.. No one thought to check the restroom for 9 hours? BS! No Excuse. I used to crash in the stalls from time to time back in college.. We always just had someone come get us in 30.
ashamedamericanFeb 4, 2008
Maybe, but millions LIVE there.
rnwen2750Feb 4, 2008
But, if he was in a stall, I would not try to open the door.
akent22Feb 4, 2008
"She was hoping to show him correspondence from Wal-Mart when he's older as a way of explaining what happened."So the stork makes babies and Wal-mart takes lives? How about showing him correspondence from a doctor explaining what aortic dissection is?
diizyFeb 4, 2008
Why didn't she check herself?
talucaFeb 8, 2008
You guys are cold - have a little compassion... From what I've read online, she did try to find her husband but the damn cleaning lady told her the stalls were empty. He sat there dead for nine hours -- how in the hell do you miss a dead body, in a bathroom cleaned hourly, for NINE hours?? The article said she doesn't hold Walmart responsible for his death (natural causes) but they should have found a dead body in their store that sat there that long. What bulls**t.