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During most natural or man-made disasters, you see that the best in people comes out....helping strangers or the police & emergency technicians, acts of extreme bravery. The kind of stuff that gives most people that 'warm, fuzzy' feeling.
And then sometimes you see that some people are just plain leeches and will take advantage of a bad situation:
Looting Takes Place in View of La. PoliceI remember seeing the video of people looting everything in sight right after the LA riots in 1992. The next day, people were having yards sales to sell the stuff they looted - sometimes with the store's price stickers still on the stuff!
NEW ORLEANS - With much of the city flooded by Hurricane Katrina, looters floated garbage cans filled with clothing and jewelry down the street in a dash to grab what they could. In some cases, looting on Tuesday took place in full view of police and National Guard troops.
At a Walgreen's drug store in the French Quarter, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers.
When police finally showed up, a young boy stood in the door screaming, "86! 86!" — the radio code for police — and the crowd scattered.
Denise Bollinger, a tourist from Philadelphia, stood outside and snapped pictures in amazement.
"It's downtown Baghdad," the housewife said. "It's insane. I've wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not."
Around the corner on Canal Street, the main thoroughfare in the central business district, people sloshed headlong through hip-deep water as looters ripped open the steel gates on the front of several clothing and jewelry stores.
One man, who had about 10 pairs of jeans draped over his left arm, was asked if he was salvaging things from his store.
"No," the man shouted, "that's EVERYBODY'S store."
Why do people do this kind of crap? Are they that petty that that they'd steal a lollipop from a kid which is pretty much what this garbage amounts to, i.e., looting stores that are not protected.
I feel for the people of New Orleans after all this hit them in a very short time, but I would have no problem if the National Guard fired a few warning shots over the heads of these looters....none what-do-ever. Here's hoping that those looters pick up some nasty crap from the water....
UPDATE: Some one left a comment that quite frankly I wish I had thought of:
Where are all the foreign offers for aid in the wake of Katrina?Seriously - does anyone seriously think that we'll be getting any sort of humanitarian aid from the rest of the world?
F*ck no!!
We'll get criticism about how we're to blame because this is a symptom of 'global whining warming' (see above post).
And the next time there's another happenstance of 'shit happens' like the tsunami in the Indian Ocean last December, expect the United States to get a steaming hot mug of why-are-you-helpin-you-f*cking-greedy-Americans???
Ah hypocrisy - it is the fabric in which the world expects us to cover them in and we're to have shit-eating grins on our faces while we do it.
(Sorry for the f-bombs and the lapse in proper/clean English.....this sort of crap makes me lose my mind sometimes...)
I saw the head of Homeland Security interviewed last night, and he stated that we have had numero
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royston said:
It does seem odd, maybe even unsettling, that foreign governments are not wading in with offers o
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Mad Mikey said:
Well....I could understand getting food, but stealing televisions? Store shelves?
No - l
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Cait said:
Not necessarily excusing the looting, but since 30% to 40% of the residents of New Orleans are be
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Yogimus said:
All looters to be shot on site, bodies collected and burned.
Read more in New Orleans - Bad & Worst SeemWhere are all the foreign offers for aid in the wake of Katrina?
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WWL just reported that a looter shot a cop in the head....
|| Posted by caltechgirl, August 30, 2005 02:16 PM ||If that's true, you're gonna see a lot more looters being shot - and quickly too.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, August 30, 2005 02:20 PM ||Where are all the foreign offers for aid in the wake of Katrina?
|| Posted by OK, August 30, 2005 02:32 PM ||All looters to be shot on site, bodies collected and burned.
|| Posted by Yogimus, August 30, 2005 05:18 PM ||Not necessarily excusing the looting, but since 30% to 40% of the residents of New Orleans are below poverty level, it is not surprising that looting would occur. Also, since many trapped there have no food and water, no power, etc. I can see why they might steal food.
|| Posted by Cait, September 1, 2005 06:36 AM ||Well....I could understand getting food, but stealing televisions? Store shelves?
No - looting anything else besides food/water is IMO just scumbags trying to 'enact justice' on 'The Man'...
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, September 1, 2005 10:03 AM ||It does seem odd, maybe even unsettling, that foreign governments are not wading in with offers of aid.
|| Posted by royston, September 1, 2005 02:07 PM ||I can only think that it's because your government is constantly making it clear that it
doesn't need any help, with anything, and will go it alone.
That aside, the whole thing is stunningly horrific and my heart goes out to those devastated people.
I saw the head of Homeland Security interviewed last night, and he stated that we have had numerous offers of aid from other countries, and that we plan to accept some of it.
|| Posted by Cait, September 2, 2005 05:57 AM ||