Posted on 09/07/2005 4:15:33 AM PDT by America First Libertarian
A group of female hurricane Katrina survivors were told to show their breasts if they wanted to be rescued, a British holidaymaker has revealed.
Ged Scott watched as American rescuers turned their boat around and sped off when the women refused.
The account was just another example of the horror stories emerging from the hurricane disaster zone.
Mr Scott, 36, of Liverpool, was with his wife and seven-year-old daughter in the Ramada Hotel when the flood waters started rising.
"At one point, there were a load of girls on the roof of the hotel saying 'Can you help us?' and the policemen said 'Show us what you've got' and made signs for them to lift their T-shirts," he told the Liverpool Evening Echo.
"When the girls refused, they said 'Fine' and motored off down the road in their boat."
At one point he had to wade through filthy water to barricade the hotel doors against looters.
He said the experience made him want to vomit.
Mr Scott also slated the rescue operation, saying police were more interested in taking snapshots of the devastation rather than rescuing the victims.
"I could not have a lower opinion of the authorities, from the police officers on the street right up to George Bush," he said.
"I couldn't describe how bad the authorities were. Just little things like taking photographs of us, as we are standing on the roof waving for help, for their own little snapshot albums"
He added: "The American people saved us. I wish I could say the same for the American authorities."
Mike Brocken, of Chester, said he feared his wife Christine and 18-year-old daughter Stephanie would be raped when they went into the Louisiana Superdome.
The family were also racially abused by other refugees in the stadium.
Mr Brocken, a BBC Radio Merseyside presenter and music lecturer, told the station: "We were going to go inside the Superdome.
"I approached two members of the National Guard and they said to stay outside because they knew it was hell in there.
"One female office basically said under no circumstances take the women in there, because she knew what it was like.
"We were so frightened and we stayed alongside the National Guard for some kind of protection.
"It was at that stage that they started to take us under their wing and eventually managed to get us into the basketball stadium."
He added: "Everyone talks about the National Guard in rather derogatory ways historically, but I've got to say that, but for them, and one man in particular, I may well have lost my family."
Oh, brother. Now we've moved into lala land.
"I could not have a lower opinion of the authorities, from the police officers on the street right up to George Bush," he said.""
This is Bush's fault as well????
Wow.
Sounds like bullpuckey to me. Were they forced to eat the bodies of the dead too?
I see nothing wrong with this as they were just using the Clinton technique to which he sucessfully used when hiring female interns.
I'm not quite sure I go along with someone asking you to show your breasts counting as a *quote* "horror" story.
It is when they deny you rescue.
Sky News, joining the chorus here, is some kind of "sister affiliate" of Fox Cable Network.
Leni
Smell test.
That is terribly wrong.
(Didn't the rescuers know that they were supposed to bring Mardi Gras beads to throw to the women?)
Like they say, when in Soddom & (oops) New orleans do as the Orleaners do.
Other news reports confirm that the NOPD conducted themselves far less professionally than a troop of Boy Scouts throughout the entire disaster.
And my personal encounters with the NOPD long before Katrina reinforce my impression of the NOPD as incompetent, classless idiots.
The Times-Picayune was saying that perhaps more than 40% of the NOPD just walked off the job.
I know. But it is being lumped in with all of the other "horror stories." A nitpicky point for sure, but it doesn't rank up there with murder and starvation and eating corpses.
**sic** Sodom
Hey! New Orleasns is a party town! Get over it!
they should have just waited 7 months then they would have saw em
I don't believe this story for one minute.
I would flash them my furry manboobs if it meant being rescued.
Is it possible the officer was asking the girls to lift their shirts high enough to show they were unarmed? It's not inconceivable that he'd been shot at already and was just being cautious. When they refused to cooperate, he left. Just a thought.
I do know that the locals near Camp Gruber here in Oklahoma have begun referring to the National Guard installation as Camp Groper, noting the rude behavior exhibited by some of the evacuees who've been brought here. It's been reported on local radio station KFAQ that unwanted sexual advances have been made toward several female volunteers who tried to help. Local shop owners who have opened their doors to refugees with Red Cross funds to spend, report a drastic rise in shoplifting.
I'm not saying that this is indicative of all refugees, but we seem to have welcomed an evil element into our communities.
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