Posted on 08/31/2005 12:43:07 PM PDT by 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.
I went through hurricane Betsy in the 60s, and I can tell you I did not loot, no matter how hungry and thirsty I was. None of my neighbors looted. The only ones looting were the ones who were lowlifes. The same is true now, and you might want to think about what you'd condone, because what you're seeing now is what you're condoning if you're saying it's ok to loot ANYTHING.
Lives have to be saved, but taking a strong stance on crime from the outset would have minimized the problem. Now many more resources have to be dedicated to the problem or otherwise innocent victims will be hurt or killed.
In 1989, then-Chief Reuben Greenberg put Charlestonians on notice after Hugo that looters would be beaten and left, and gave the citizenry carte blanche to do the same when they encountered looters. National Guardsmen rode shotgun with every cop. Incidents of looting were very few and far between.
www. gasbuddy.com (where you can find out gas prices in any zip code in the USA) has crashed due to access overload (apparantly)
Do you REALLY believe that they were not stocking the "Dome" before the hurricane hit with food and water???..If the people in charge did not have enough sense to stock the "Dome" with food and water as the people were pouring in before the hurricane...then they have nobody to blame but themselves...they elected these people who are in charge..they can deal with them...as for A/C...oh cry me a river.......since when was no A/C considered cruel and unusual circumstances...most of these people in the dome didn't have A/C in their homes......sheesh...
Baghdad was a different situation. Hussein had been looting his people for more than 25 years and starving them in the process, while he built luxurious palaces and dined on gourmet meals. Looting him was no crime.
The radio forum they got this message from said the situation at Tulane is Code 4. And then, at the next couple of posts they say it's still going on.
(code 4 is radio speak for situation under control)
'Kinda supports what JC Watts once said...."character and integrity are what you are when no one is looking."'
Billy Cosby witnessing(TV) all the looting going on by the majority of his very own community is probably having a VERY sad day! :(
Hey...that's a series thing!
It's HUGH!
He's just trying to scare me with his gobbledeegook.
It is very, very series.
I've said it once, and it's been verified by other Florida posters. There was no looting in Florida after the hurricanes last year. Leadership must come from the top and there's been so much hand wringing among the leadership of the city and state that the looters knew they could get away with it.
Plus the police have allowed the looting to some extent because people were taking food, but once the criminal element saw the police weren't taking action then everything spiraled out of control.
It's totally illogical. The entire city will have to be evacuated, what is going to happen to the stuff being looted, it's going to be left behind to rot. But looting usually is illogical.
In our town, when we had riots many years ago in a black neighborhood, there was lots of looting and car burnings, but they were looting stores in the black area of town and burning their own neighbors' cars, all because they were angry over a white policeman shooting a black teenage criminal.
BTW, I don't think the looters are going to leave NO willingly. That will be a whole other story.
Perhaps they are accustomed to death, disaster and mayhem. Most of them are usually laughing it up.
"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."
Yup. I live in an area where it's basically impossible to own a gun legally. If my neck of the woods ever gets hit like NO, we'll be stuck with baseball bats and however many Molotov cocktails we can make. Damn, I want a gun.
The Second Amendment absolutist in me is having trouble getting upset about thousands of shiny new guns landing in the hands of citizens without any records of who got them. Not all of these guns are ending up in the wrong hands.
I said no such thing, really. People are just leaping to conclusions and trying to argue. I think the stress and emotion is getting to people. I'm beginning to think the more time away from the forum, the healthier my perspective.
You're right that it took a lot less than 24 hours for society, economy, and order to break down in New Orleans in the absence of law enforcement. Something to remember when considering the potential for crisis anywhere.
I wonder what Nostradamus would have to say about all this????????
It is up to 2.79 around here, but heard a guy in the energy dept. today saying that it will definitely hit 4.00, maybe higher.
I love the way we plan ahead for disasters. Is everything we do reactionary, cause I'm not feeling the organization.
He's a disgrace to his uniform...
I have no idea if it's just one station, or what. I called back to quiz the wife a little more and found out her friend told her this. So, consider the source.
Wife friend also said lines were growing at the station she was at.
I've seen news stories that some distributors were considering the implementation of a process they call "allocation" which is basically rationing from distributor to the gas station. Perhaps the gas stations are going to "allocate" to clients. Given the shut down of refineries, this could certainly be true. I'll try to do a little recon when I get off work.
No. They weren't. People were told to bring their own supplies.
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