Looting after Katrina

[jbit]

This is by far the most cowardly and dispicable act that I've seen yet. There are so many people trying to do good by helping those that are stranded and hungry and these fucking scumbags are raiding everything they can. Those items could go to those who REALLY need it.

I would love to see one of the store owners sit atop his store with a gun (like they did in the LA riots) and just start picking people off as they come out.

Given the circumstances, It would be justified.

[slamminshaun]

I wish I saved the picture, but when I upgraded computers this year I lost it.....

After Frances and Jeanne went through last year, I had this piece of plywood out in front of my house against my garage door that said "You Loot, We Shoot". I don't even own a gun....LOL

[trancepriest]

Originally Posted by jbit

Those items could go to those who REALLY need it.

They are helping themselves directly:

The New Orleans region includes Orleans and St. Bernard parishes. Orleans has a 34 percent poverty rate. Why do you think they never evacuated?

[jbit]

Originally Posted by Slammin'

I don't even own a gun

I do, and I live on the fringe of a sketchy neighborhood. After Francis I had so sleep with the doors open to get air in cause the windows were boarded. I would have had little reservation about snuffing someone out who thinks there going to take what I've worked so hard for.

[JMT]

you loot, and i will shoot. literally.

[trancepriest]

Originally Posted by JMT

you loot, and i will shoot. literally.

Do you even own a gun?

[JMT]

Originally Posted by trancepriest

[quote author=JMT link=board=6;threadid=19538;start=0#msg230664 date=1125437539]
you loot, and i will shoot. literally.

Do you even own a gun?
[/quote]


well, a super-soaker doesnt quite have the same effect.

[saintjohn]

At least some of the looting seems to be officially sanctioned:

After Katrina, Looters Ravage New Orleans
From Associated Press

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 today 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."

Looters filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation as National Guard lumbered by.

Mike Franklin stood on the trolley tracks and watched the spectacle unfold.

"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.

A man walked down Canal Street with a pallet of food on his head. His wife, who refused to give her name, insisted they weren't stealing from the nearby Winn-Dixie supermarket. "It's about survival right now," she said as she held a plastic bag full of purloined items. "We got to feed our children. I've got eight grandchildren to feed."

At a drug store on Canal Street just outside the French Quarter, two police officers with pump shotguns stood guard as workers from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel across the street loaded large laundry bins full of medications, snack foods and bottled water.

"This is for the sick," Officer Jeff Jacob said. "We can commandeer whatever we see fit, whatever is necessary to maintain law."

Another office, D.J. Butler, told the crowd standing around that they would be out of the way as soon as they got the necessities.

"I'm not saying you're welcome to it," the officer said. "This is the situation we're in. We have to make the best of it."

The looting was taking place in full view of passing National Guard trucks and police cruisers.

One man with an armload of clothes even asked a policeman, "can I borrow your car?"

Some in the crowd splashed into the waist-deep water like giddy children at the beach.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...home-headlines

[Bling]

wow havent heard news yet today but this is sickening...... :'(

[all4tribal]

when i went to new orleans almost 2 years ago, i never seen so much poverty here in the US...i mean i have but i guess i wasnt expecting that over there since i was a "tourist"...areas of baton rouge, and anything 10-30miles northeast/west is much poverty...and all their homes are gonne, they got no money, food, nada...i agree that looting is bad n im not saying they r doing the right thing, but i guess when a catastrophe like this happens it makes some people do crazy things

they are also saying how the water level is going to stay up for the next cpl days if not weeks @ some parts of the city, i dont think those people are gonna live on top of their roofs too long...temps up there can get over 120 F on a hot sunny day esp