[SmithL]

I call it looting, too.

[Chi-townChief]

I was wondering what the hell this lefty a-hole was referring to here:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=243655&messageid=1125661632&lp=1125702569

[msnimje]

Somebody seems to be making a something out of a whole lot of nothing. Were the captions written by the same person? If not, perhaps it simply a matter of the philosophy of the different caption writers?

[sine_nomine]

Or stealing, or robbing, or larceny. Looting fits best.

[AbeKrieger]

And in other news a massive hurricane took out a major U.S. city. Thousands may be dead.

[Prime Choice]

Both are looters in my book.

Find the caption writer and fire her (or him). Problem solved.

[guitarnick40]

[CindyDawg]

I keep seeing this pop up. The woman is black, too.

[TomGuy]

Considering the extend of this catastrophe, I have no problem with those taking food. It would go to waste otherwise, because much of it is perishable. Too, those taking 'some' clothing; many lost everything except the clothes they were wearing.

One report said nearly half of those arriving on the buses in Houston Astrodome and related had no shoes. One Houston area outreach effort is to help provide them shoes.

[Cvengr]

If the 'looter' left his name and point of contact for the owner to find and indicated hiw intention of compensation, I tend to find no fault in their behavior.

There will be a number of perspectives on the taking of property in the disaster area. Some are innocent, some are guilty, but I suspect those who are more guilty might cause the deaths of others, while those who are innocent are acting accountably and righteously.

[BenLurkin]

There is something odd about the discrepancy in the captions.

People have offered reasonable explanations but it still looks very bad.

[jordan8]

Another fabricated non-controversy designed to distract people from the fact that the OVERWHELMING majority of looting and anarchy in New Orleans. It's just FUD trying to convince people (and it will be successful too) they're not seeing what they are seeing. It might be added that the woman in one of the "finding" photos appears to be black, and the other showed one white and one black coming out of a store. Presumably the black got just as much benefit from being labeled a non-looter as the white. But I see they've already dropped that photo from this non-contoversy.