While the media overplayed a lot of the Katrina problems and death toll, IMO some FReepers are in denial about how bad it was.
Just ask any Houstonian how crime went up when they got 100k refugees.
As far as the looting/foraging goes, IMO, food & water/supplies=foraging. ANYTHING else = looting.
Are we to believe that no crime occured at the Superdome?
While the media overplayed a lot of the Katrina problems and death toll, IMO some FReepers are in denial about how bad it was.
Just ask any Houstonian how crime went up when they got 100k refugees.
Very little crime occured at the Superdome.
Food and water in stores that are even minimally flooded is usually a total loss/write-off due to contamination by possibly being splashed by water. Most health departments will not allow it to be sold. Even canned goods and bottled water since they may have germs on the outside. So, it is essentially trash that may be picked up by anyone. If you break into a store that is NOT flooded, it is looting.
Col. Thomas Beron, the National Guard commander of Task Force Orleans, arrived at the Superdome on Aug. 29 and took command of 400 soldiers. He told PM that when the Dome's main power failed around 5 am, "it became a hot, humid, miserable place. There was some pushing, people were irritable. There was one attempted rape that the New Orleans police stopped."You mean everyone watching TV didn't know that the National Guard was in the Superdome with those people, with food and water?
"Are we to believe that no crime occured at the Superdome?"
Sure. Crime took a holiday, don't you know. It also took a trip, to Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Jackson, Shreveport, Memphis, Houston, and even to some small towns where good folks gave them shelter until they destroyed their homes.
Ordinarily that'd be a crime eh!