Posted on 08/15/2023 1:58:25 AM PDT by Libloather
Desperate survivors in Lahaina are robbing people at gunpoint as they wait for food and shelter in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires, Hawaiian locals said.
"There's some police presence. There's some small military presence, but at night people are being robbed at gunpoint," co-owner of a Lāhainā bar called The Dirty Monkey, Matt Robb, told Business Insider.
Robb added: "People are raped and pillaged. I mean, they're going through houses - and then by day it's hunky-dory. So where is the support? I don't think our government and our leaders, at this point, know how to handle this or what to do."
Fox News Digital reached out to the County of Maui for information about the alleged looting but did not hear back by time of publication.
Residents spoke to local news outlets as they await rescue crews to deliver food, water, diapers, and other necessities, many who lost everything are growing desperate.
Owner of restaurant Coconut Caboose Jeremy Aganos, one of the businesses that survived the fires, told KITV it is "utter chaos" for those seeking aid. His business was attacked by looters, he said.
Aganos set up a GoFundMe for the restaurant's losses.
Another Lahaina resident, Barrett Procell, told the news station he and his wife are now homeless and wearing donated clothes. He said he understands the desperate measures some Lahaina survivors are taking.
"When your children are here starving after almost burning to death and the police won’t let people drive in to give you necessities, you may turn to desperate measures. It is unfortunate people are turning to looting right now, but it’s about helping them and not villainizing them," he said.
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Ahhhh, feels just like home.
Just another ‘Rat Urban Utopia.
Payback for voting for the stupid commies.
Embrace the Marxist suck, suckers.
We all live 72 hr. from chaos.....
My emotional separation from “America” must be complete … because I read a headline like this from Hawaii and I honestly don’t GAF.
Yep. Our police, fire, stores, electrical, etc. are capable of handling the typical day to day problems, and even some very large events (like a block-large fire or mass shooting).
When entire towns get wiped out (this fire, hurricanes, earthquakes) one needs to be prepared to last on their own for weeks.
Of course when all of your supplies are burned up....
“some of us” not all of us.
So no one has a gun to defend themselves and shoot the bastids?
We make nice excuses for them instead?
I don’t understand that mentality.
reached out to the County of Maui for information....
.... but did not hear back
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That seems to be SOP
for Mobocratic Party members.
Just because you are well prepared won’t insulate you from those who are not.....
“Raped”?
That doesn’t sound like desperate residents to me. That sounds like monsters.
Oh, i am prepared to unleash pure hell on the bastards, that try that on my family.
I guess they haven’t gotten that $700 yet.
Sounds like opportunistic criminality, not desperation.
“We all live 72 hr. from chaos.....”
This.
Since this catastrophe, I have been running scenarios through my head. What would I do if I had nothing but the clothes I’m wearing? No house, no food, no supplies, no weapons, no things and no place to defend, and pretty much the same for all of my neighbors. The first thing I would do is GTFO and find a relative or a friend. If my family was with me, we’d all be hoofing it out of there - somewhere, anywhere but that spot. Nothing can live there now for a long time.
Govt. is salivating at the prospect of more like this.
God have mercy
” I don’t think our government and our leaders, at this point, know how to handle this or what to do.”
“No comment”
EC
Maybe some Californians can give them some pointers as they do this yearly.
Well armed, family grouped.
Yep. That's a whole 'nother ball game there. Fire takes out your reloading supplies and ammunition, too. Destroys your firearms, even.
Prayers for those people.
“all cultures are equal”, yes ?
NO!
When “superstorm” Sandy hit a few years back. I lived in NJ. I had everything you could need for TEOTWAWKI.
Naturally, my block never lost power. That was a miracle.
However, all of our friends and family were without electricity so our home became a small refugee camp. All day, people were coming in and out to grab hot showers, Mrs DoodleBob was cooking hot meals, and just sitting to warm up. Eventually everyone would head back to their powerless homes though everyone had a generator for necessities (you know, powering iPhones, computers, etc…).
Things were ok. Nobody died.
After about three days, I noticed the lines at the gas stations were getting longer and longer. It turns out most people had generators, but only two days worth of gas. Obviously, without gas there was no generated electricity, the fridge and food would go down, sump pumps wouldn’t work, and other Small but Nasty Things would arise.
There were reports of fights breaking out as people started barging into queues, stories about angry crowds of people who waited hours only for the station to run out of gas, and the start of a general breakdown in civilization.
Then, I heard people were strategizing about driving 100 miles away (where the situation wasn’t dire) to load up on gas. But there were no gas cans available on the shelves. People were buying gas cans online at ridiculous prices. THE topic of conversation was, gasoline: did you get any, which stations still had some, do you have any extra cans, can we drive to this or that station together, etc.
You could run scenarios, about what would be the next step down…would people start targeting and robbing homes if they heard a working generator (generator noise=gas), would strangers come knocking in MY door for a hot shower, and so on.
By about day 4 or 5, power was restored and the good citizens of Soprano Nation went back to being whiny RINOs.
Had we gone another few days without power being restored, we’d have gone full Blade Runner.
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