Haiti Earthquake: Death Toll May Hit 200,000

Telegraph(UK) ^ | January 16th 2010 | Gordon Rayner

[UCANSEE2]

So, did you try out Earthquake 3D?

It’s worth it. (It is free, fast, and awesome)

[UCANSEE2]

Reports were that the looters had nailed the UN guard to the door of the warehouse.

If the food was there, why would they bother?

Now, if the food was already gone, I can see why they crucified the guard.

[RightFighter]

Let’s think about this for a minute. If there were 15,000 tons of food - how many looters would we assume could work in coordination with each other? If we assume that a band of 100 armed men came and took the food -

15,000 tons of food * 2000 pounds per ton = 30,000,000 pounds of food.

30,000,000 pounds of food stolen by 100 men = 300,000 pounds of food per man.

Now, if we go the other way, and assume that somehow a group of 10,000 people was put together to go and steal the food:

30,000,000 pounds of food stolen by 10000 men = 3,000 pounds of food per man. That’s a lot of food to carry.

Even if it was 100,000 people - that would be 300 pounds of food per person.

Something doesn’t add up. The food was never there to begin with, and the UN is covering for something. All my figures are in US tons - the metric ton is actually 2204 pounds, which would make the problem even worse.

[BohDaThone]

Well, you can “raid” a warehouse without emptying it. Those who think it was empty or overstated to begin with may well be right, but the writer of the original story sould well be to blame for implying that the warehouse was totally sacked, rather than just some of it being gone.

[Travis McGee]

I don’t remember that one...

[Travis McGee]

How’s this for a scam... U.N. people sell off supplies to wealthy Haitians and warlords, and then claim it was lost to looters.

Big time. I'll be that's right.