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looting in New Orleans.
i'm sorry, but this shit is too funny...
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."
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.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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People are fuckin scumbags.
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Shit happens and you have to take action sometimes. This however is unnecesary beyond belief. The owners of these stores and markets are going to have
enough time getting back on their feet if they even get that far, and these ignorant people are further diminishing their livelyhoods.
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I wonder if it matters though? I don't know how insurance works with stuff like this. If they didn't loot the stuff, would the stuff be considered
"ruined" and claimed as a full loss anyways? I remember when I worked grocery in the dairy dept. back in 98/99, the day the date expired, we were
supposed to go to the backroom mopbucket sink and rip open the containers, whether it be yogurt or bagels or cheese or anything that's considered a
dairy item and discard the food in garbage bags and pour the liquids down the sink. Then we would save the part of the package with the UPC code and
the store would mail the UPC codes back in for credits. After doing that a few times, I started saying FUCK THIS - and I would simply throw the stuff
into cling wrap and take it home with me. I never bought dairy items!
So I'm just wondering if these stores would claim the items as a total loss anyways?
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yes there are scum bags in there...... especailly the ones taking jewelry and expensive clothes
but lets look at the other side of this....
new orleans is about 85% ghetto
folks that don't have a car didn't have a chance to get the fuck out
so your whole house gets flooded out....
and you have kids to feed
and there is no electricity, no sewage, no clean water to drink....
no stores open to buy food at and no way of getting out....
you survive....
it doesn't mean steal expensive jewley or clothes,
but you might need dry clothes ever been soaking wet in clothes for days
and you have to have food.... no electricity means no fridge
so keeping shit fresh as well as dry, good luck
it's anarchy plain and simple
and yes I feel for those store owners (and everyone else)
but they can write it all off to fema and the insurance companies as a total loss and get something back to rebuild with
those people stranded in that shit are gonna be lucky to survive long enough to even talk to fema, let alone get a check
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white people "find" things http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/05083007181...
black people steal things http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/480/ladm10208301530
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good catch, steve. those whites are punks and they still "found" those items!
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spin is an amazing thing
I just hope those who are still alive get out okay
we are supposed to get hit with whats left of it tonight/tomorrow
and the winds are going crazy right now...
I can just imagine how fucked up it was down there
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Damn dude. That is amazing. The difference between white and black in the MEDIA is huge.
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from an AP story...
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One looter shot and wounded a fellow looter, who was taken to a hospital and survived.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BIG DUANE
from an AP story...
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One looter shot and wounded a fellow looter, who was taken to a hospital and survived.
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In Louisianna it is legal to shoot and kill someone who tries to carjack you. I assume if someone tries to steal your looted shit then it's legal to
kill them too.
Memphis got hit by this storm last night. Lots of power outages, a little flooding. My house though, only the swing in the back yard flipped over,
everything else is fine. I hope it stays that way.
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1756&e=1&u=/05083...
Thought I'd add to the looters theory here on THORP.
Peace!
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Damn for some reason it didnt' work.
It read "A looter is carrying a bucket of beer out of a liquoir store he just looted.
He is waiste deep in water and has a pale full of beer bottles. He's got long black hair in a semi ponytail and he's smiling.
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Anybody noticing that the white guy is wearing a ignite shirt
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Stealing shoes is not hip. I guess they need to be styling in their air jordans while wading through water.
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I think it is funny how the South is so "godly" and "moral" ...always talking about the north like we are scum bags... when shit happens up here like
that we always seem to keep civil (NYC Blackout)...while the south acts like a bunch of fucking animals.
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I think it is funny how the South is so "godly" and "moral" ...always talking about the north like we are scum bags... when shit happens up here like
that we always seem to keep civil (NYC Blackout)...while the south acts like a bunch of fucking animals.
Good point.
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SO I guess the "DUUURTY SOUTH" is now clean?
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A hurricane to purify?
*dodges tomatoes ala Fozzy the bear*
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Check out this point of view.
http://www.illwillpress.com/
Just click on the box that says hurricane report.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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if were a buncha animals.how come so many peeps here in houston are opening up their homes,and churches to help these peeps out.hell the astrodome is
gonna be home to about 25,ooo people for a couple of months...there's a big difference between losing your lights for a few days,and losing
everything..new orleans has about 1.3 millon peeps that will be w/o homes,jobs,food,basically just about everything for at least 2 mos..my heat goes
out to all that this has affected cuz it coulda been houston that got hit..greg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sippers
if were a buncha animals.how come so many peeps here in houston are opening up their homes,and churches to help these peeps out.hell the astrodome is
gonna be home to about 25,ooo people for a couple of months...there's a big difference between losing your lights for a few days,and losing
everything..new orleans has about 1.3 millon peeps that will be w/o homes,jobs,food,basically just about everything for at least 2 mos..my heat goes
out to all that this has affected cuz it coulda been houston that got hit..greg |
I don't really count Texas, more along the lines of the bible belt.
Every bible belt southerner I know hates New York because of the "gays" and "immorality".
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the clip of the assholes looting the TV store was good...ok they gots dare tvs but now they have to carry it through 2 feet of water back to their
home, which is under water, and cant watch it.
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Just how many bible belt Southerners do you know living in Albany? I'm sure there are religious freaks living on Long Island who hate NY for the same
reasons. The real reason why some Southern people hate the East Coast in general is because everyone there thinks Southerners are dumb and slow.
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