[Dont Mention the War]

WDSU New Orleans:

12:15 p.m. [CDT]: Looting Continues Throughout City

At a Walgreen's drug store in the French Quarter this morning, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers. When police finally showed up, a young boy stood at the door and shouted a warning, and the crowd scattered.

A tourist from Philadelphia compared the scene to "downtown Baghdad."

Nearby, looters ripped open the steel gates from the front of stores on Canal Street. They filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation. -- Associated Press

[dirtboy]

Nearby, looters ripped open the steel gates from the front of stores on Canal Street. They filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation.

These people should have been expending that kind of effort to get to higher ground. They'll probably pay for that lack of discretion dearly. All for some soggy clothing and jewelry.

[ErnBatavia]

Next step - "check day", September 1, when the mail can't get through...

[oldleft]

I can understand breaking into a place to get drinks and chips and diapers, but jewelry and clothes? I hope when the Navy gets their the Marines are selective...

[Howlin]

They filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation. -- Associated Press

Too bad they weren't that industrious when they needed to figure out how to leave.

BTW, that is NOT looting to live, IMO.

[Mr. Jeeves]

A tourist from Philadelphia compared the scene to "downtown Baghdad."

I would have thought that scene would have reminded him of downtown Philadelphia. ;)