Posted on 09/11/2005 6:51:12 AM PDT by Popman
A group of female hurricane survivors were told to show their breasts if they wanted to be rescued, a British holidaymaker has revealed.Ged Scott watched as American rescuers turned their boat around and sped off when the the women refused.
The account was just another example of the horror stories emerging from the hurricane disaster zone.
Mr Scott, 36, of Liverpool, was with his wife and seven-year-old daughter in the Ramada Hotel when the flood waters started rising.
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"When the girls refused, they said `Fine' and motored off down the road in their boat."
At one point he had to wade through filthy water to barricade the hotel doors against looters.
He said the experience made him want to vomit.
Mr Scott also slated the rescue operation, saying police were more interested in taking snapshots of the devastation rather than rescuing the victims.
"I could not have a lower opinion of the authorities, from the police officers on the street right up to George Bush," he said.
"I couldn't describe how bad the authorities were. Just little things like taking photographs of us, as we are standing on the roof waving for help, for their own little snapshot albums"
He added: "The American people saved us. I wish I could say the same for the American authorities."
Mike Brocken, of Chester, said he feared his wife Christine and 18-year-old daughter Stephanie would be raped when they went into the Louisiana Superdome.
The family were also racially abused by other refugees in the stadium.
Mr Brocken, a BBC Radio Merseyside presenter and music lecturer, told the station: "We were going to go inside the Superdome.
"I approached two members of the National Guard and they said to stay outside because they knew it was hell in there.
"One female office basically said under no circumstances take the women in there, because she knew what it was like.
"We were so frightened and we stayed alongside the National Guard for some kind of protection.
"It was at that stage that they started to take us under their wing and eventually managed to get us into the basketball stadium."
He added: "Everyone talks about the National Guard in rather derogatory ways historically, but I've got to say that, but for them, and one man in particular, I may well have lost my family."
Just curious.
When an accusation is made in Great Britain, is the accuser expected to prove his claims, or is it simply accepted as fact?
I ask you because the accuser appears to be one of your leftists.
I knew it was a mistake for Bush to ask Clinton to help "raise" support for the Katrina victims.
Take on e look at the chief of police and then tell me that a police department long known for corruption and incompetence couldn't have done it. NO was and is a swill hole.
I'll never get the coffee outta my keyboard. LOL
I was actually asking Madivan, I just forgot to remove your name. Sorry.
ouch!
Isn't this a NO tradition even in the best of times? Females expose themselves and get beads in return?
"Hard to believe the suave and sophisticated UK is that hung up on mammaries. A lady exposing her breasts in public here in these backwater colonies, is hardly noticed anymore, except when some shameless huzzy, grossly shoves a nipple into her hungry baby's mouth."
Oh, don't get me started.
I could not have a lower opinion of the PRESS, from the United States right up to Fleet Street.
Tourists from around the world have reported similar stories. I doubt they all got together and decided to make up the same lies. These stories are in many foreign newspapers.
"Isn't this a NO tradition even in the best of times? Females expose themselves and get beads in return?"
That's what I was thinking. Doesn't surprise me at all.
Heh.
Yep, given the other exaggerations coming out of New Orleans, I am very skeptical of this one. Who goes to the trouble of volunteering to rescue folks, if they are just wanting to look at naked breasts? I'm sure they can find that on their own computer.
It doesn't add up. Use a little critical judgment. Read several previous posts as to why. I agree it stinks of Jayson Blair journalism.
Sounds more like British slang than southern US
I could see them taking a bribe for a ride, but seeing something you can see any weekend on Bourbon Street...?
Or "Katrina does New Orleans."
Good point. This is the first I have read of such acts. Odd that the perpetrators were able to pick out the foreign tourists and leave the American tourist alone. Surely, if this happened to an American tourist, the stories would be in American newspapers as well.
why is this unbelievable?? First- he does not say who the "rescurers" were (people in a boat, sean penn, etc)..
Considering the looting, raping, dessetion by police, I think this very possible...
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