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The looting begins: Thieves strike after superstorm
UK Daily Mail ^ | 10/31/12 | Adam Shergold

Posted on 10/31/2012 2:00:36 PM PDT by Kartographer

As New York City spent a second night plunged in darkness shameless criminals got to work looting abandoned stores and homes across the metropolis. At least 13 suspected thieves have been arrested since Hurricane Sandy struck the city around 6.30pm on Monday evening. Thousands of police and National Guard troops are patrolling the city and keeping guard in the worst-hit areas in a bid to deter any opportunistic crooks. As hundreds of thousands of the city's residents were left without power, some wily criminals posed as Con Edison energy workers to dupe their victims, reported the New York Post

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KEYWORDS: prepparedness; preppers
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To: LucyT

They think they’re getting a head start on b0nehead’s redistribution. Stinkin’ animals.


41 posted on 10/31/2012 6:57:31 PM PDT by azishot (When your life is on the line, lead is worth more than gold.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
It was standard policy to shoot looters everywhere at that time before lib lawyers and judges got into the act.

As much as looting may tick us off, property and things are not worth a human life, nor are they worth opening up the possibilities to idiots to simply shoot on sight any "trespassers". I want bad things for the looters too, but I think it's a bad idea to open up that little drawer of Pandora's Box.

42 posted on 10/31/2012 7:06:07 PM PDT by Teacher317 ('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
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To: Jane Long
I was just going to post that these thugs are likely tweeting and taking pics from their Obamaphones.

WE pay for those phones with a surcharge added to our cell phone bills... Seems only fair to take the free phones away from people convicted of a crime...

43 posted on 10/31/2012 7:27:01 PM PDT by GOPJ ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbOuxqK2T34)
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To: Teacher317

***As much as looting may tick us off, property and things are not worth a human life,***

Years ago, I knew some missionaries to Haiti under the rule of Papa Doc. One day they were walking through a market place and someone stole something and took off running. Almost immediately the Ton-Ton-Macutes were on him and beat the man half to death.

The missionaries were horrified at what they saw when a merchant took them aside and told them that this had to be. If they let one get away with it, everyone would do it and they would have everything stolen from them and there could be no market at all.


44 posted on 10/31/2012 8:26:45 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ilovesarah2012

45 posted on 10/31/2012 8:36:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Graewoulf

I traced all their identities back to some white liberal high school aged kids from New Jersey who were probably just being bone headed. One of the kids (who seemed to be an instigator) had actually impersonated a gangster / looter before during the london riots. I don’t know yet if there is an OWS angle here or just some wannabe Anonymous type.


46 posted on 10/31/2012 9:13:10 PM PDT by willyd (Don't shoot, we're Republicans!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; Teacher317

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“We hang horse thieves, not in order that men shall be hanged, but in order that horses shall not be stolen.”

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47 posted on 10/31/2012 9:28:33 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: willyd

” - - - I traced all their identities back to some white liberal high school - - - “

GREAT Re-Search! WOW!

The FReeper Media is alive and well with you on the job! Thanks!


48 posted on 10/31/2012 9:29:37 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: willyd

No white kids in these photos; check ‘em out:

http://www.infowars.com/shameless-looters-display-stolen-goods-on-twitter/


49 posted on 10/31/2012 9:35:33 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: tomkat

Then shoot shovel and shut up!


50 posted on 10/31/2012 9:36:19 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: dalereed

Considering all the water there; Make that statement “shoot sink and shut up.” =)


51 posted on 10/31/2012 10:25:50 PM PDT by Redcitizen (A good pun is its own reword.)
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To: Redcitizen

Really convenient: Load Dead Lootie onto floating detritus & give it a shove. Let him stink up the place - someplace else.


52 posted on 11/01/2012 3:32:22 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: dfwgator

“They could just illegally download some of her songs.”

Looters will only steal what they want or think is valuable.


53 posted on 11/01/2012 5:06:16 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: patriot08

Surreal- that this trash is posting this and getting away with it.

After Katrina hit people put up signs like We shoot looters, Looters come through my door lie dead on the floor and such. It is a deterent. They may be stupid looter scum but they’re not that stupid.

I guess we have had these low lifes with us since the beginning of time but I will never get used to people stealing from people who are hurting. I think there is a special place in hell for these people.


54 posted on 11/01/2012 6:59:45 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: Bitsy

Probably people in most of the area hit by Sandy have no guns.
Shame.


55 posted on 11/01/2012 7:32:39 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

funny you should mention that,
During Andrew freezer equipped tractor trailers carried out bodies of dead victims en masse. We always wondered if it was the storm that killed them or “something else”. Anyway a lot of the bad guys disappeared after Andrew.


56 posted on 11/01/2012 9:12:51 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: LucyT

Those darn white folk : )


57 posted on 11/01/2012 9:45:56 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ((God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.))
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To: rodguy911

When chaos ensues, interpersonal scores get settled without the threat of the rule of law. See the French Revolution.


58 posted on 11/01/2012 11:43:21 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: Teacher317
... property and things are not worth a human life,...

True.

But after a while, those gone feral get comfortable with taking "property", and then move on to "persons".

"Nipped in the bud" is a valuable life lesson.

59 posted on 11/01/2012 1:12:05 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Titan Magroyne

Was that guy “ looter guy” from the Katrina Hurricane ever identified? Just wondering.


60 posted on 11/01/2012 8:37:35 PM PDT by Redcitizen (A good pun is its own reword.)
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