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."
"When the girls refused, they said `Fine' and motored off down the road in their boat."
Check out this link: http://www.neworleans-ramada.com/hotel.html
If this is the Ramada Inn they were staying at, it's unlikely that rescue boat operators would get a thrill over seeing female breasts from the roof of a 12 story building.
That's my sentiments.
Now, had the Limey injected something like ... "the girls had just had a bath and were ready to party" ... it may have made one wonder.
The thought of some girls being asked to perform like strippers, being caked with a weeks worth of dirt and smelling like an old coon dog ... well, it just isn't palatable. ;)
Same story posted already on 9/7/05 by sky news, with different title.
Definitely an agenda here!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479130/posts
Aw.... get started tuffydoodle, my intentions are to get a lot of people started-sic 'em!!!!!
Why do I see liberal bias here? You don't suppose this yahoo had in for GW do you?
* I got better.
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The guys in the boats weren't police officers. If anything it was Sean Penn looking for some "D" cups to bail out his boat with.
Sounds like it. But hey, it makes good copy in a tabloid.
susie
Hey, you could go write for a British paper!!!
susie
It's the sort of self-serving commentary...the fact that
people who he reacted to all served him well, like the
guardsman, the female guard who kept his daughters out of the
dome. How can a guy, who just got rescued, suddenly decide to lose
respect for EVERYONE in authority....plus he describes
the dome as "hell"....uh, how about poorly managed, potentially
dangerous", "not a good place"...."hell" is alot worse than
the dome...sounds like a "tall" story, or "urban myth"...
Tourists from Germany, Australia and Canada have also reported stories such as these.
I've yet to find any stories on the Internet. Can you point out where these stories are published?
Bourbon St
1315 Gravier Street
Which street was under water???
"I could not have a lower opinion of the authorities, from the police officers on the street right up to George Bush," he said.
Ah yes, girls told to show their breasts in New Orleans-must be the fault of President Bush.
Or their hairy legs and armpits either.
"Ah yes, girls told to show their breasts in New Orleans-must be the fault of President Bush."
It would never have happened under Bill Clinton!
(If you belive that, I'm selling this bridge in Brooklyn....)
Oh, no, it's not crap. I was there, and saw the whole thing. Bush had his hand on the tiller, and was the one making the shirt lifting motions. The Secret Service was there with him, steadying the boat and pouring drinks. Rove was with him and yelling, too, and pissing off the boat onto some poor people who were begging for help. I swear, I saw it.
I'd post more, but I have to get back to DU.
I do not believe it.
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