Posted on 05/06/2007 4:30:06 PM PDT by aft_lizard
GREENSBURG, Kan. Four Fort Riley soldiers were arrested for looting from a store in Greensburg.
Major General Tod Bunting, the state's adjutant general, said the soldiers came to Greensburg to help on their own, and were not part of any official detachment.
Few details were available, but Bunting says the four went into a store last night and took more merchandise than the owner wanted them to take. He was not sure what store they went into, but it was one of the few buildings still standing after Friday night's storm.
Bunting also did not know exactly what the soldiers took.
He said the soldiers were being held at the Pratt County Jail. He did not know if they had been charged.
The Pratt County sheriff's office said it would release information later in the day.
I’m hoping that this is a case of them requisitioning emergency stuff for folks who needed it from a stingy shopkeeper......comments from the General allow me that hope....
Yeah it doesn’t sound like it was a real looting situation. Sounds like they were allowed to requisition stuff and there was a miscommunication somewhere.
On second thought it does sound like a miscommunication situation. Obviously the owner approved of them taking some things.
Nope.....this link says cigarettes and alcohol....damn!
http://www.kbsd6.com/Global/story.asp?S=6476459&nav=menu486_2_4
Let’s hope it wasn’t like the cops in N’Awlins.
How disgusting. Scum like this are not fit to wear the uniform and make me sick.
“Take me to the brig! I want to see the real Marines.”— Chesty Puller
Well there goes any miscommunication defense. Sounds like they ended there military careers.
Where is that in the Constitution? Here?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I’m sure they are positive the soldiers WERE soldiers and not just masqueraders with uniforms and ID...or maybe not.
They must have been Katrina victims just looking to survive.
I suppose you’d rather bleed to death than have someone elses tourniquet misappropriated.....but since the hopeful hypothetical went away, feel free.....
Where are the democrats telling us what they supoort our troops? They keep calling our troops in Iraq criminals and ne’er do wells, uneducated losers and kids with no other options in life.
Will the dems rush out to condemn these soldiers as being typical of the type of people we send to fight our ‘illegal’ wars?
Dems criticized Bush because criminal cops in New Orleans looted stores there (on camera, no less). So it shouldn’t be beneath them to blame Bush for criminals who also happen to be soldiers.
no facts, a lot of maybes, in fact No Nothing is actually said.
I hope this blog is not turning into a Times News where even the obituary column is faked.
Something just clicked, the second article posted said they stole liquor. Kiowa County is a dry county.How can they steal something if it isn’t supposed to be sold there?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiowa_County,_Kansas
“Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, Kiowa County has remained a prohibition, or “dry”, county.[1]”
Are they ‘Regulars’ or ‘Guard’? I don’t know of any ‘official military personnel’ that can just ‘decide’ on their own to go somewhere.
Liquor “by the drink” (bars) is different than liquor sold in stores by the bottle.
On a saturday night (absent other duties, which is the case for probably 90% of those stationed at Ft Riley) they’d have been free to go wherever they wished, their next duty being Monday morning.
http://www.ksrevenue.org/pdf/Kansas_Liquor_Laws_2001.pdf
Since it is pdf I cant cut and paste however it states that retail liquor stores cannot be located in Haskell,Kiowa,Linn and Stanton Counties. Meaning the liquor cannot be sold legally in those counties. This is on top of there refusal to approve the liquor by the drink amendment.
They can still sell beer.
*pops self on head*
Sorry, cold meds prevented ‘Saturday Night’ from actually being recognized in the article.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Among the only structures that survived was the Bar H Tavern, the town’s only bar. It was briefly converted into a morgue.
http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=309798
can’t be a totally dry county...
I can’t remember all of the details but as a youngster we would drive down to a wet county in Oklahoma where someone knew a store owner who would sell us booze. We had cow pasture cocktail parties with kids from a hundred miles away driving in. Drinking was very moderate and no one got roaring drunk. Offenders were tossed over the fence or into the creek. A lot of talking, joking, horseplay and good clean fun. Sometimes even a girl or two would attend and we were on our best behavior.
Bars in Kansas can become “private clubs” by charging a nominal (I think usually $1.00 or $2.00) membership fee at the door. Since they are no longer serving the general public they can sell liquor by the drink. Very civilized.
The laws must have changed recently. I used to live in Dodge City, and went out to the Greensburg area at least twice a week, used to stopping in the Kwik Shop at the Corner of Kansas and 54 all the time for snaks and what have you.
Greensberg is only forty miles or so away from Medicine Lodge, the home of Carry Nation. There has been a long running contest between the temperance forces (the womenfolk) and the drunkards (all men whether they’ve ever had a drink or not). Kansas liquor laws derive from this constant battle. They may be strange but both sides can claim a little bit of a victory.
To clarify, it uses the broader term 'alcohol', not liquor.
Looters should be shot. Especially looting soldiers, cops, and “red cross workers”.
agreed
the red cross itself loots every disaster that makes the news
Kerry has still not released his 180
Say, why did President Carter pardon Bill Clinton if Clinton was not a felon?
I know 3 of those soldiers personally, having attended AIT and Basic training with them. I can tell you that one of the soldiers was arrested last fall for a DUI. Another soldier was held back at Basic for selling presription meds. The other, Basoco, is one of the finest men I have ever met. Without knowing any details of this, I can without any doubt tell you he was not one of the looters. I know this man well enough to know he did what he could to stop them. This is the same man who called a few soldiers to ask if they wanted to go see if they could help. He even called me. His idea of a great Friday or Saturday is chasing storms while so many other soldiers are out getting drunk.
So while the fact that what happened is totally unacceptable and even moreso because they were soldiers, please just know that one of them isn’t like the others.
i know all of the soilders who are locked up for that..one of them is my husband and before u start judging them for what the headlines say u need to get the facts straight..they did come on there own to help them ppl out when that tornado hit and all of them have big hearts for that but when they follow orders someone gave them to get food and stuff for the people who got there homes destryoed.. they get locked up for it?? they have been in and out of that store allday untill they had shift change and the new cops got them for that stupied shit..so dont judge them boyz if u dont know them i know my husband and he will not steal from a tornado raveged town..
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