I have to laugh here. Many of us down here sound perpetually stoned.
We are all so taken with the moral issues here. What does one do to get out of a dark, wet, scary place with people wandering around with guns shooting and thieving?
The problem is for every thug with an AK 47 there are a thousand scared, wet, terrified people. But the thugs just command attention and rule with their ability to make us fear. So everyone begins to look like they are hiding a gun under their shirts.
That is why I was asking how many thugs with guns were around. And my guess is it is small. And if all of these refugees look like they are thugs in our eyes, it is going to be a long decade or decades.
It is like the KKK,,every white southerner got associated with that group of thugs when most of people werent. I once asked my father who grew up here about the KKK. And he told me they were outliers, not decent people and never were. He said that at the time the decent people knew these were thugs.
The hijacked bus I don't know about. But I sort of think they made their own personal evacuation plan. I hope they didn't kill anybody but suspect they just comandeered a bus and made a bustrip to texas. Anybody read Confederacy of the Dunces? It sounds like a story from that book. So I will wait and see what happens with it. It in an odd way is amusing me. It would not if I thought they hurt of killed someone to get the bus, it really wouldn't. But if it was just left with the keys in it or if the driver went in to get his papers or something, and they took it, well I can hardly blame them.
One of my all time favorite books...what's the lead character's name something O'Reilly? But you have to have lived in New Orleans to get it, that's the problem. It's surreal and epic all at the same time...and so gloriously funny.