Posted on 09/25/2005 9:49:52 AM PDT by freespirited
Just as Katrina's receding waters revealed acres of ruined houses, flooded cars and pockets of bodies, the post-storm cleanup also raised the curtain on a trail of mass looting that left even the most jaded New Orleans police officers awestruck.
As search and rescue crews staged house-to-house searches for survivors during the past two weeks, they repeatedly stumbled upon stacks of merchandise -- from large appliances still in the box to knotted tangles of hastily pilfered jewelry.
Much of the loot is being recovered from the drier areas of Uptown and Central City in the 6th Police District.
"At first, we stored the stuff in the garage and locked the metal gate, but the stack grew too big, so we commandeered the trailer from the side of the road and started storing it there," said Capt. Anthony Cannatella, 6th District commander.
That 20-foot trailer rig was quickly filled back-to-front, floor-to-ceiling, so officers began putting everything into a 60-foot trailer until that was packed, too. They're now easily on their way to filling a 40-footer.
A peek inside the trailers revealed the scope of the mass theft: Bicycles, TVs, computers, printers, cameras, lamps, beer, wine, liquor, stereos, toys, clothes, bedding, diapers, power tools, vacuum cleaners, VCRs, DVDs, CDs, CD racks, clocks, an ATM, a digital metal detector, a meat smoker and a deluxe aquarium stand, for starters.
"C'mon," Cannatella said. "Why would anyone take a deluxe aquarium stand? Some of this is just ridiculous."
In normal times, the recovered goods would be methodically tagged and stored in the evidence and property room in the basement of police headquarters, but that storehouse and everything in it was ruined by water that reached the ceiling.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
The only things left on the shelves were the books and the educational materials.
"...a trail of mass looting that left even the most jaded New Orleans police officers..."
Puh-leeze, they don't work enough to get jaded.
And during a flood, no less. Hell, N O is an aquarium.
Fingerprints??
And the looters had time to not only empty the WalMart, but trash it, too. Guess their plight wasn't as dire as we were led to believe...
Or, as any construction worker knows, they never steal shovels or brooms.
They are just trashing the Wal-marts that enfranchised Americans wont trash any more
So who is hooking up to the trailers? NOPD?
This is what has been known as the Liberal Democrats Great Society.
tell that to that Canadian singer Celin Deon (sp?)
---Just out of curiosity, how do the LEOs know which tangled knots of jewelry were looted and which simply belonged to the residents of the homes which the LEOs broke into?---
If it's in a room with five brand new boxed microwaves it isn't their jewelry...
I don't think there's any difference...
Well, there it is. Kryptonite for the racial proletariat.
I kinda like this line:
"One idea in the works is a plan to donate the items to officers who lost everything to the storm. In the 6th Police District alone, Cannatella said 52 of his 132 cops would qualify"
I wonder what Walmart could possibly owe the useless New Orleans Police Dept? They were worse than useless to them. One wonders how much of this stuff has already been "donated" to the NOPD.
Don't worry - she doesn't deserve to have her name properly spelled.
Just a hunch, but I think the sales tag of $12,000.00 from Andre's Fine Jewelry is a dead giveaway.
After all these were 'po folk' who couldn't afford 'fine jewelry' until after they got their FREE debit cards from us.
Sales tags? No receipts? Maybe.
Still, just speaking for myself, I think there is a real due process problem here.
Now, now. The author didn't say that they were working at police work and became jaded, just that they were jaded.
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