Posted on 08/30/2005 10:14:57 AM PDT by aomagrat
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With much of the city emptied by Hurricane Katrina, some opportunists took advantage of the situation by looting stores.
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Denise Bollinger, a tourist from Philadelphia, stood outside and snapped pictures in amazement.
"It's downtown Baghdad," the housewife said. "It's insane. I've wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not."
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Around the corner on Canal Street, the main thoroughfare in the central business district, people sloshed headlong through hip-deep water as looters ripped open the steel gates on the front of several clothing and jewelry stores.
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Looters filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation as National Guard lumbered by.
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"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.
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that was his only post in over a year....which is probably why he's gone now. Making up stuff and labeling other members as racists on your first post kinda makes that happen.
I wish someone would shoot the boxes out of their hands.
Duh! That would be a tourist trapped there that couldn't get out.
If you didn't have a ticket to leave before the storm, you couldn't get a flight out.
Exactly.
[[Careful about using the "homies" description. Petronski will tattle on you for being a racist.]]
Hey man, that's not racist. They call THEMSELVES homies :)
I would guess that the question is...what do we do to stop the looting?....shoot the folks!...I think not.
But, what we are experiencing, is a harbinger of things that can happen when, society breaks down....
I urge increased vigilance, at the borders and airports...OBL, would love to attack now....
Bingo! Great catch! 8^)
Hell the water is already horribly polluted. Might as well shoot and float a few looters in it.
Shoopolluflooting: A new word describing the new sport of shooting looters and floating them in polluted waters.
Sorry, hehe, I just had my second root canal in a week and sometimes humor raises it's head at an inappropriate time.
Shoot to kill!
The word is Al said stay outa the jewelry stores cause he's comin.
Shoot the damn looters on sight I say.
Why doesn't the national guard just do a flyby and gun all the looters down?
Begin the AWPing!
Don't they have to impose Marshall Law first? Along with Rammstein no doubt.
Spoken like a true Democrat.
But dat ain't enuf, man!
/sarcasm off
Gots to have dat bling-bling, baby! /extreme sarcasm off
I consider myself admonished for my ignorance.
Thank you
""To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said."
Nice to the 'rat spin on it.
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