TULANE MEDICAL CENTER taken over by Armed Looters

Radio Reference ^ | 8/31/05 | me

[BurbankKarl]

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20219

Hostage Situation in New Orleans

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Just a heads up, armed looters have taken over one of the medical centers in New Orleans where the injured people were being sent. They are holding the entire staff of the hospital hostage and firing at the national guard. An FBI SWAT team has just been flown in (from Baton Rouge I believe) and they are just now getting situated. I'm not sure of any online scanners that are up monitoring the state trs. That is where alot of traffic is going on at.

LSP Troop B is requesting immediate backup. Troopers, riot squad, and national guard. He said the crowd is triple the size it was earlier and they are about to be overrun.

The location is 610 and eleshafield(spelling?).

Should I make another thread that has events going on down there? Lots of stuff has gone on and half of it never makes it on the news or anything.

[Armedanddangerous]

Send the Delta Force to Tulane.

[Apogee]

I wouldn't have a problem with a neighbourhood watch group staking out a local Walgreens (by force of arms) and making sure that necessities were distributed and people protected.
The entire contents of the store are a loss, but they could make some accounting of it, and ensure that no one gets more than needed or runs off with non necessary items.
IMO they should account for it, and the store should forgive it, after this is all over. Anyone looting or terrorizing, etc, should just be shot.

[HairOfTheDog]

I've done a lot of reading. I've seen posts that are sympathetic to the need for food and water in the absence of any aid or order. That's not the same as armed takeover of a hospital.

I'm not about to defend every jerk in New Orleans or every response on the forum, but it's not helpful to say FReepers have been apologizing for this kind of crap.

[al baby]

No - Rush Limbaugh broadcasts from Miami,

Rush bought his big difference

[Tamatoa]

BUSH'S FAULT!!!! Head line NY Times

[nicmarlo]

this was predicted earlier, Karl, by another FReeper, saying that the looting needed to be gotten under control...so that something like this would not happen.....

I would doubt these very words of wisdom were expressed to the Gov./Mayor and, obviously, went unheeded, as well.

[TX Bluebonnet]

Or Epicac - makes you vomit. They give it to children who have swollowed poison.)

Someone kept steeling my cousins lunch at school and my uncle finally laced her peanut butter sandwich with epicac. Problem solved.

[truth_seeker]

When 20 percent do NOT evacuate when ordered, would that be "premeditation?"

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I think they decided to get all the folks rescuing people, but they maybe shoulda split it up and put it down from the beginning.

Oy Veh!

There's an old rude term to describe people like the looters, but I won't use it here, but it does describe how those people are acting.

[GOPJ]

The same types of animals that take over hospitals to steal drugs also live near you. And they're just waiting for a major crisis to come to your city. This is the place where we thank liberals for enabling drug addiction, criminal behavior and victim politics.

[Alouette]

But wouldn't it be easier to just rob a pharmacy or drug store?

All picked bare already.

[metmom]

I'm not saying there aren't. It's just these people who aren't.

[WestCoastGal]

bookmark

It just gets worse.

[nicmarlo]

I would doubt = I would NOT doubt

[HairOfTheDog]

I wouldn't have a problem with a neighbourhood watch group staking out a local Walgreens (by force of arms) and making sure that necessities were distributed and people protected. The entire contents of the store are a loss, but they could make some accounting of it, and ensure that no one gets more than needed or runs off with non necessary items. IMO they should account for it, and the store should forgive it, after this is all over. Anyone looting or terrorizing, etc, should just be shot.

I'd join that team.

[Skooz]

None of those looters should leave that building alive

I agree. 100%.

[mdmathis6]

propofol injection 10cc's...lights out!

[Dems_R_Losers]

The Army really needs to bring in some armored personnel carriers and round up these thugs and just drop them 30 miles outside of town. Are they gonna claim their civil rights were violated? They were just being evacuated at the order of the Governor!

BTW, I was watching some film last night and it appeared that least one of the big public housing projects in New Orleans appears to be on high ground. I've toured most of the public housing in New Orleans and the scene looked familiar to me. That's probably where all the looters are coming from. The Feds need to go search those projects, I'll bet they find massive amounts of stolen goods.

[Mo1]

Do they have a Chief of Police? Have they had a press conference?

I'm sure they have one, but I haven't seen him/her

They need help down there and the Govenor needs to get her act together pronto and start making some tuff calls to get that city in some kind of control

[lastchance]

Well we know they are not of the human race no matter their color, creed or sex.