Posted on 11/07/2005 2:22:29 PM PST by Ellesu
When she noticed the human waste on the floor of the trendy women's shoe boutique she manages, Lindsay Foret suspected looters had soiled the store out of spite.
"I was like, 'This is horrible. There's brand new bathrooms and they couldn't even go there?"' Foret said. "I went back to the bathrooms and they were perfectly fine."
As she spoke to fellow merchants along trendy Magazine Street, on the edge of the Garden District, Foret quickly learned she wasn't the only one who found such unseemly messes while trying to reopen a looted store.
Around the city, merchants returning after Hurricane Katrina who expected their worst problems to include storm damage or stolen merchandise have found numerous examples of vandalism, some of it vile, that apparently was meant to upset store owners.
"I can confirm some stores were vandalized -- and soiled, to some degree," city police Capt. Marlon Defillo said. He was not sure if it was widespread and said he could not comment on motives, but he suggested a lack of running water may have been a factor at times.
Sociologists say it may speak to the anger of a disenfranchised segment of the population and how -- at least during the chaos that ensued shortly after the storm -- they reveled in ruling certain places they may have previously perceived as snobby or out of reach.
"It is asserting a kind of power," Tulane sociology professor Martha K. Huggins said. "People who have their house broken into often say they feel violated, and defecating on the floor is the ultimate way to violate somebody.
"People who've been marginalized and excluded from the economic system and social system and don't feel they have any stake, it's not surprising that some are going to behave in a way that shows they have absolutely no respect for and no stake in the system," she added.
Human feces was found in a number of stores around town, from the independently owned shops uptown to the chain stores at the upscale Canal Place shopping mall downtown.
"I was like, 'These animals,"' said Jack Sutton, who owns a fine jewelry store that was looted inside the Canal Place mall.
Sutton found his store had display cases smashed and broken well beyond what was necessary to steal the goods inside. Looters overturned furniture and dumped out boxes of files. They even drank champagne he kept in a small refrigerator, as if to celebrate. He did not find human waste in his store but saw it in several others in the mall.
"There definitely were toilets around," Sutton said.
Myron Goldberg, owner of M. Goldberg menswear store in uptown New Orleans, said those who broke into his store smashed open a gum ball machine and ground gum into recently refinished hardwood floors. "We had to get the wood floors redone," he said.
"My cat uses a litter box. Ergo, at least some animals are more civilized than the looters."
I leave my dof at home 12 hours a day. Not once have I had to clean up a mess. Your comment is accurate.
LOL! You're confusing a waste human with a POS.
"dof" = "dog" How can somone with as fingers as skinny as mine fat-finger a keyboard?
There is a church about 10 miles away from where I live that became an evacuation location for those fleeing New Orleans. Every room in the children's building had pee or poop in it. Don't tell me it's because they felt left out of society. These people are animals, plain and simple.
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It supposedly happened in Kuwait, with showers that were either used by multiple branches of the mil. or used by the AF and "tagged" by the Army guys.
I was told by a relative in the AF. Just wondered about it, since I had not heard of it before.
The liberal utopia.
Some people can't tolerate the fact that others possess or have earned more than they have; therefore, they want to destroy that which they can't have. For an illustration of the foregoing I need look no further than my car which is parked behind the complex at which I live. It is an older car, but still sleek, having recently had dents removed and new paint applied. I usually close windows and lock the car religiously. One night I neglected to close the windows on each side which had been open during the heat of the day (my air conditioning temporarily inoperative). During the night someone had put their hand through the four-inch space at the top of the window on each side and had run it along the headliner and molding, ripping the headliner out of the molding along the full length of the roof on each side of the car. No vendetta against me; it was totally anonymous. Only possible motive: I possessed something the vandal liked and lacked.
I have a dof. He's a Freat Dane.
thats a vicious lie started by the air force and marines... we dont have maid service so guess who cleans the toilets and showers in the ARMY?
""People who've been marginalized and excluded from the economic system and social system and don't feel they have any stake, it's not surprising that some are going to behave in a way that shows they have absolutely no respect for and no stake in the system," she added."
Again we buy into the oppression argument. Dont buy it - blacks know that whitey is intimidated by him screaming racist - but it doesnt hold water anymore. Blacks have made their bed and they need to lay in it. We need tough love for them, they need to held accountable for their actions.
Blacks continue to hate whites and segregation is worse than it has been in along time because we allow them to frame the argument. Blacks are overt in their hate and racism, these actions were done out of hate to suggest otherwise is ignore the facts and support further division in our society. All are equal and all should be held accountable for their actions not what some percieve as motive for their actions. To suggest such a thing sterotypes all whites as acting purposely to oppress and therefore suggest that many whites are racist - a claim that is contrary to the help and money that was given for victims here and everyhwere else.
Um, sorry, no. Defecating on the floor is the ultimate way to violate yourself, but little else. At that point you are a f**king animal. Anyone surprised?
BS. They enjoy all the rights and privileges everyone else does - plus some.
"I have a dof. He's a Freat Dane."
Mine's a Faschund.
The people down the street from us have one of those. That's a hugh dof!
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