Thirsty! Who's thirsty?
Posted on 08/30/2005 3:00:24 PM PDT by Truthsayer20
Law enforcement efforts to contain the emergency left by Katrina slipped into chaos in parts of New Orleans Tuesday with some police officers and firefighters joining looters in picking stores clean.
At the Wal-Mart on Tchoupitoulas Street, an initial effort to hand out provisions to stranded citizens quickly disintegrated into mass looting. Authorities at the scene said bedlam erupted after the giveaway was announced over the radio.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Open season on looters!!!
“The police got all the best stuff. They’re crookeder than us,” one man
said.
* That's amazing.
Oh no..
animals...
The poor people are so hungry, thirsty and scared. That's why they're using their two arms to carry off television sets, as opposed to food and water. LOL.
That's insulting to animals everywhere.
Whatever happened to the old rule about looters being shot on sight?
That would be the definition of anarchy I would think.
“It must be legal,” she said. “The police are here taking stuff, too.”
(chuckle)...sorry! You're not a PETA spy are you? ;-)
To be expected when the message goes from 'looters shot on sight' to 'OK to loot clothes & groceries, but not TVs & jewelry'. This society had better find its moral footing fast, not to mention its b*lls.
Let this stand as a lesson to all lefty moonbats that this is precisely why we have the SECOND AMENDMENT....because the police can break the law too.
I would to be a honest LEO there right now.
You know it realy doesn't matter one way or another, waiting for 2-3 months for the power to come back on there will not be anything to come back to.
NOt in New Orleans, haven't you heard of how they were killing folks down there?
I mean on national t.v. they had a cop talking of killing some folks, and it wasn't an isolated thing.
If this account is accurate (police officers, in uniform, looting a store), I'm not sure that anarchy is a strong enough word, though I don't know what the mot juste would be.
One can only hope that the story was, ah, distorted by the folks who actuall were looting the store.
I'll bet all the XXL sizes were gone first. I have never seen more obese people in one place. A majority of the residents of NO could stand to skip every other meal.
Haley Barber over in Miss implied just that last night. I bet you will not the the rampant looting in Miss as you see in NO.
Like anywhere, police in NOLA have always had their bad eggs. Sorry these are out there, though.
Hey, at least they can float.
New Orleans is living up to my expectations.
Now to go back to laying low as not to get flamed again.
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I'm trying to imgine what it's like there. Almost everything destroyed, little or no contact with the "rest" of the country. They can't get any goods in or get people out. It's hot, wet and after sunset, it's dark. It must be almost like those old sci-fi end of the world movies. I guess man does revert to mob mentality when they think no one can see them.
I remember a Jean Claude Van Damme movie where the bad guys set up a "most dangerous game"-type operation in New Orleans because law enforcement was barely at the level of a third world hellhole. I thought it was just a movie.
"Whatever happened to the old rule about looters being shot on sight?"
Let them try to break in my property and they will find out. Quick!
Reminds you how thin the threads of civilization really are, doesn't it?
That rule breaks down when those with the guns are joining in the looting..
You've got that right!
"New Orleans is living up to my expectations."
Indeed, but it's no different in any other urban area.
In general, this is what people do, and what people are - it was entirely predictable.
If you think it's bad now, wait until they start fighting over the last few items that are left on the shelves.
This is why in an emergency/disaster situation you should be able to defend your interests.
Don't fret....thus human nature has always been, and always will be.
A series of nuke attacks or other major WMD from islam on us, and I guarantee the cops will be doing this stuff everywhere.
I hope everyone takes a look at anarchy, and is prepared for when it hits.
What are the gun laws like in NO/LA?
No. Please look up the definition of anarchy.
Another example of what happens when a culture loses its foundation, which in our case was Christianity.
Not all that different from Baghdad, right?
Isnt the mayor of NO a dem? And, I guess....this will be Bush's fault, right?
In the 1960s it was determined according to the MSM, et al. that the people had already paid for the stuff due to the high prices charged by the neighborhood merchants.
The residents are merely picking up their merchandise.
Just thought you'd all like to know.
Liberalism is a mental illness -- and it's a looooooooong-term, perhaps incurable sickness.
What the hell use is a TV when you're in a city that has no power, will have none for a month or more, and flood waters are rising. Then again, the fact that they are still in the city would suggest that they are not the brightest bunch in the first place. Of course the bigger idiot is the person that decided this was a good idea - and worse yet, announcing on the radio that people could come to the Wal-Mart to get their "provisions".
This has got to be a first.
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Maybe you could look it up and enlighten us? Be a sport.
Really, I'd like to see a link that shows where firefighters and law enforcement were looting during a disaster.
You haven't heard about how corrupt the NO police dept is? Do a google search and you would be absolutely amazed.
Try it again... not catchin' your drift.
Thirsty! Who's thirsty?
as soon as I heard mandatory evac except for certain people (government workers and television carnies) I knew the Big Easy would be picked clean...the New Orleans PD is NOT like the Vegas Metro...pretty much as corrupt as any big US city...
If that amazes you, you might want to read up on the history of the NOPD. At one time they had the most effective hitmen in the city.
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