A friend's brother was trapped at the Fairmount Hotel until Thursday nite.
The hotel hired "mercenaries" who came in heavily armed and rescued them taking them to buses that escaped comandeering and rode them out, lights out, heavily armed.
They paid money for it. I am waiting for the people to start screaming that how come rich people got mercenaries and poor didn't. Like are we all entitled, do we have a right to mercenaries?
It is a truth, welll to do people have resources in times like this that protect them. A big incentive to work, save money and keep your powder dry.
Those kids toting around AK's could have made a better living in the days after the storm by organizing and becoming mercenaries. They could have made college tuition I would guess just escorting people out of the hotels and the Quarter. Instead they acted like criminals and that doesn't pay, it just doesn't.