about the looters...

corpses tied to street signs

what is this?

 

serious,, check it out,, its all over the news,, they are under orders secure the bodies an search an rescue is yer job..

its catostrophic..

 

Yeah, so they can be recovered once the flood waters recede.
C-A-T-A-S-T-R-O-P-H-Y

 

oh i see.

 

damned canadian cajuns and their dirty french....backwater bastids.

(when i was little i had a spanish creole neighbor, very elderly, who'd go on and on about the acadians and their muddy language. good stuff)

 

how do all of these people know how to get on their roofs? thats my question

 

Even a cop joins in the looting

Mike Perlstein and Brian Thevenot
Staff writers

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.

While many people carried out food and essential supplies, others cleared out jewelry racks and carted out computers, TVs and appliances on handtrucks.

Some officers joined in taking whatever they could, including one New Orleans cop who loaded a shopping cart with a compact computer and a 27-inch flat screen television.

Officers claimed there was nothing they could do to contain the anarchy, saying their radio communications have broken down and they had no direction from commanders.

“We don’t have enough cops to stop it,” an officer said. “A mass riot would break out if you tried.”

Inside the store, the scene alternated between celebration and frightening bedlam. A shirtless man straddled a broken jewelry case, yelling, “Free samples, free samples over here.”

Another man rolled a mechanized pallet, stacked six feet high with cases of vodka and whiskey. Perched atop the stack was a bewildered toddler.

Throughout the store and parking lot, looters pushed carts and loaded trucks and vans alongside officers. One man said police directed him to Wal-Mart from Robert’s Grocery, where a similar scene was taking place. A crowd in the electronics section said one officer broke the glass DVD case so people wouldn’t cut themselves.

“The police got all the best stuff. They’re crookeder than us,” one man said.

Most officers, though, simply stood by powerless against the tide of law breakers.

One veteran officer said, “It’s like this everywhere in the city. This tiny number of cops can’t do anything about this. It’s wide open.”

At least one officer tried futilely to control a looter through shame.

“When they say take what you need, that doesn’t mean an f-ing TV,” the officer shouted to a looter. “This is a hurricane, not a free-for-all.”

Sandra Smith of Baton Rouge walked through the parking lot with a 12-pack of Bud Light under each arm. “I came down here to get my daughters,” she said, “but I can’t find them.”

The scene turned so chaotic at times that entrances were blocked by the press of people and shopping carts and traffic jams sprouted on surrounding streets.

Some groups organized themselves into assembly lines to more efficiently cart off goods.

Toni Williams, 25, packed her trunk with essential supplies, such as food and water, but said mass looting disgusted and frightened her.

“I didn’t feel safe. Some people are going overboard,” she said.

Inside the store, one woman was stocking up on make-up. She said she took comfort in watching police load up their own carts.

“It must be legal,” she said. “The police are here taking stuff, too.”

(Staff writers Doug MacCash and Keith Spera assisted in this story.)

 

thats disgusting. i just watched a video of a female police officer wrestling with a tenaged boy. she had her hand on his neck and he just took his short off and just jogged away. what a punk. the cop didnt even move.

 

Can't find mah daughters, but, HEY! I got mah Bud Lite.


OK all you anarchists out there, watch why it won't work.

 

seriously

 

i havent seen one non black looter. just making an observation

 

And that could be due to a number of things - like the slant of the media - or the fact that anyone left in the city probably didn't have the means to escape and didn't live in Metarie, a well-to-do 'burb, if you get my meaning.


But don't you bet there aren't some.

 

That'd be because new orleans is predominently black? der
I didn't see any white people being rescued in helicopters either.

 

why not loot? it'll be underwater anyway. who give a fuck about them getting food and shit they need?

 

Yeah, they really need that TV that they can't plug in because there isn't any power. Yeah, they really need that.

 

i do not understand half of this thread atleast
but to answer the origonal post...no i would not kill anybody not even the people looting things like tv's and computers...sheese


i certainly would not be worring about looting other then of course anything that might help me to survive but eh...who really cares what the looters are taking if they are taking petty materialistic stuff thats thier business but it does sadden my heart...its too bad that greed will always rear its ugly head....
i hope that somehow the people who have lost thier homes to this storm can get help to build new homes

just a reminder to our patriotics in the crowd a salute our great president ....i mean for fucks sake the man ended his vacation earily just for this ...whew aren't we all so glad to be american at this point ....

 

RE: Sandra Smith of Baton Rouge walked through the parking lot with a 12-pack of Bud Light under each arm. “I came down here to get my daughters,” she said, “but I can’t find them.”

Well at least you got your priorities straight.... Jesus.

Some people NEED beating with a rubber hose.

 

Not sure that would be, uh, firm enough to drive the point home, y'know?


She's breathing our air.

 

Its just a representation of how low some people can be. In one video a girl smiles at the camera as she carts her stollen good through the store. How could you look another person in the eye while youre looting and not feel ashamed?

 

mob psychology.