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Looters take advantage of New Orleans' flooding (It is a Free for All)
Houston Chronicle ^ | 08/29/2005 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/30/2005 12:59:42 PM PDT by LM_Guy

NEW ORLEANS — With much of the city flooded by Hurricane Katrina, looters floated garbage cans filled with clothing and jewelry down the street in a dash to grab what they could.

In some cases, looting today took place in full view of police and National Guard troops.

At a Walgreen's drug store in the French Quarter, 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 in the door screaming, "86! 86!" — the radio code for police — and the crowd scattered.

Denise Bollinger, a tourist from Philadelphia, stood outside and snapped pictures in amazement.

"It's downtown Baghdad," the housewife said. "It's insane. I've wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not."

Around the corner on Canal Street, the main thoroughfare in the central business district, people sloshed headlong through hip-deep water as looters ripped open the steel gates on the front of several clothing and jewelry stores.

One man, who had about 10 pairs of jeans draped over his left arm, was asked if he was salvaging things from his store.

"No," the man shouted, "that's EVERYBODY'S store."

Looters filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation as National Guard lumbered by.

Mike Franklin stood on the trolley tracks and watched the spectacle unfold.

"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.

A man walked down Canal Street with a pallet of food on his head. His wife, who refused to give her name, insisted they weren't stealing from the nearby Winn-Dixie supermarket. "It's about survival....

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: hurricanekatrina; katrina; looting; neworleans; theft
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To: MindBender26

It tells us that the population of New Orleans is at least 68% black, though we already knew that before Katrina, and that the post-evacuation population is even more uniformly black than that, but we could've already guessed as much (the poor are less likely to evacuate).

Whenever and wherever society breaks down, looting follows. It's amazing that anyone is even slightly amazed by that.


81 posted on 08/30/2005 1:20:52 PM PDT by AntiGuv ("Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick)
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To: OldFriend
Sorry to say but there was an extensive amount of looting of the WTC during the crisis.

No there wasn’t.

There was some isolated incidents, and a few people were prosecuted for them, but there was no large scale looting in the WTC or in the stores and buildings surrounding it.

Months after the attack, you could still see dust covered merchandise sitting on the shelves of surrounding stores, untouched.

82 posted on 08/30/2005 1:20:55 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: antiRepublicrat

The only one seeing them was this news reporter.


83 posted on 08/30/2005 1:21:14 PM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: dfwgator
>I wish New Orleans had a lot of Korean shop owners with shot guns like in LA.

My favorite trick to watch the Korean shop owners station themselves on their rooftops. When a car full of looters pulled up in front of their stores, they would wait until the looters got out, then the shop owners on the rooftops would Molotov Cocktail the car.

AMF.
84 posted on 08/30/2005 1:22:04 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: dead
There was some isolated incidents, and a few people were prosecuted for them, but there was no large scale looting in the WTC or in the stores and buildings surrounding it.

Which would make sense; New York City wasn't in a starvation survival situation, unlike the poor of flooded NOLA.

85 posted on 08/30/2005 1:22:32 PM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: LM_Guy
Hmmm, this may be a good opportunity to get me a free plasma TV, which I need real bad! Lessee, a round trip ticket from Noo Yoke would cost how much?
86 posted on 08/30/2005 1:22:45 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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To: Redleg Duke

Hmmm. Sounds like communist theory in action, when the leftist's used to agitate for violent criminals in prison because they considered them "true revolutionaries".

The grocery stores would have to throw out the food anyway. I don't know if they could even hand it out, because if someone got sick, they could be sued. But I remember going into a LI grocery store after Gloria and being upset at the amount of food being just tossed.


87 posted on 08/30/2005 1:23:04 PM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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To: dfwgator
How did Manhattan recover from 9/11? We're Americans...anything is possible.

Thanks...your absolutely right!

88 posted on 08/30/2005 1:23:30 PM PDT by apackof2 (In my simple way, I guess you could say I'm living in the BIG TIME)
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To: NormsRevenge
That's it (your photo there).

The looter will ALWAYS rush to get 'basic necessities' first. /sarc

Sheesh. Shoot to maim. If they give any guff and 'my rights! lip after that, shoot to kill.

89 posted on 08/30/2005 1:23:33 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (I Support the President on Iraq and Our Troops; But 'll Freep Him In A Second for Illegal Alien Mess)
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To: AntiGuv

Please, if you can, list all the examples of organized White looting in the US in the last 100 years?


90 posted on 08/30/2005 1:23:35 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: NormB
Hey man, I've got kids to feed!

91 posted on 08/30/2005 1:24:02 PM PDT by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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To: NormsRevenge
New Orleans police hold shoot guns...

Don't look like cops to me.
92 posted on 08/30/2005 1:24:04 PM PDT by keat (Posting code without previewing since 2004)
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To: Dead Dog

LOL!!


93 posted on 08/30/2005 1:24:15 PM PDT by apackof2 (In my simple way, I guess you could say I'm living in the BIG TIME)
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To: The Red Zone
I wasn't addressing the underlying reasons for looting or non-looting, I was just addressing the facts.

I just hope the starving people of New Orleans have some creative recipes for television and jewelry gumbo.

94 posted on 08/30/2005 1:25:10 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: LM_Guy
Looters filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry

Some inner city poor are now millionaires with some nice diamonds.

95 posted on 08/30/2005 1:25:32 PM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
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To: evets

Picture isn't working


96 posted on 08/30/2005 1:25:37 PM PDT by JimDingle (Give Dingle a Jingle)
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To: The Red Zone

Help us understand how the poor starving underclass of New Orleans are feeding themselves by stealing TV sets, fancy suits and beer.


97 posted on 08/30/2005 1:26:08 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: LM_Guy

Shoot the ba$tard$ then hang them in public.


98 posted on 08/30/2005 1:26:16 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: NormsRevenge
The nerve of those bastards to show up at a drug store with huge plastic baskets in there hands and a sense of perverted entitlement. They are NOT there to BUY anything.

The only thing keeping them from going in there are those dudes with the shotguns, and even at that, they swarm up pretty close. Not good.

99 posted on 08/30/2005 1:26:36 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (I Support the President on Iraq and Our Troops; But 'll Freep Him In A Second for Illegal Alien Mess)
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To: NormsRevenge

Beer is the safest thing to drink....it is mostly water.
I don't begrudge someone entering a store for beer, water or food for survival....but just like the LA riots...they try to justify it by saying they are "oppressed". Puleeze.


100 posted on 08/30/2005 1:26:54 PM PDT by Feiny (The only way to bag a classy lady is to give her two tickets to the gun show... ...)
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