Lent house in shambles (Katrina evacuees trash accomodations)

Carroll County Times ^ | 29 Nov 2005 | Diane Reynolds

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Well congrats for putting your walk where your talk is. It is admirable.

Well I DID leave out the part about my grocery, and water bills! ;-)

[Bogey78O]

I saw a house that wasn't 2 years old probably paid for mostly by tax dollars in worse shape from a family. New Orleans ghetto life is more destructive than anywhere else IMO.

[Ellesu]

ping!

[Great Caesars Ghost]

If you're going to help, you have to get it straight in your mind from the start that you don't expect thanks. Or you're going to be sorely disappointed, when working with the poor, or anybody for that matter.

[Serb5150]

2. Except for one person I haven't heard a single Katrina evacuee say thank you in public.

Good point. I remember the 'thank you' ads New York ran after the support they received after 9/11.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

I haven't seen a reference to the Brown's race yet, so how can you be a racist? ;)

[Great Caesars Ghost]

Government's helpful internet friendliness seems to have become a hindrance throughout this disaster. I hope they don't take it away! But it's no good in an emergency.

[Galveston Grl]

You are right about that. You have to give without expecting anything in return. However, you also should speak up when abuse is returned. Shaming someone who is mean to those who have shown charity is fine - not for what it does for those who have been abused; but for what it might do for the idiot who is dead to love.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

On the few times I borrowed a shovel or hoe, I alsways cleaned and oiled it before handing it back.

I'm like that too. I used to have to borrow money from people and I was always scrupuloous about paying it back. I just bought a house and I was thinking about why I'd rather pay for a tool than borrow it even if I only need it once and I know I'll return it. It's because I don't want to put the owner of the tool in the position of having to worry about whether he should or shouldn't or whether it will come back or not. I'd just rather buy it. Then I'll have it. Or I'll make do with something else if it's only for one time.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

It's probably better than Mogadishu.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

I heard on the radio this morning that the kid who comandeered the school bus and drove the 40 people to Houston got busted for dealing heroin a couple of weeks ago. No heros anymore.

[timydnuc]

I read this article at work this morning while having breakfast, and I almost lost my breakfast.

These stories are coming out, albeit over the Internet, but they are coming out. The MSM won't report it but they are there none the less. The reason the MSM won't report it is quite simple, it shows the extremes that a population sucking at the government teat has gone to. Honest, human charity is shown to them in their time of greatest need and they pi$$ in the cup of human kindness. This is what you reap when you put people on endless government subsidy without the self respect of working for a living. They have no respect for themselves therefore they have no respect for any other thing in this world, not even the kindness of another.

The good people that helped these ingrates should still be proud of what they did. Too bad they had to get stuck with a bunch of bums to help.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

O'yea dere was dis fella called Rush today from NO that said tings wuz tolerble dere... jus awful, you know. Said all de tings Bush promise in de speech in fron' of St. Louis Catedral he lie about, none of 'em come true. Said all dis attention bein paid to Iraq and people in New Orlean's the ones that wuz hurtin and that they needs the money, but the money ain't there, nohow.

Rush wuz a little sympathetique until he started talkin about the money for Iraq but not for NO, then he said "A HA!."

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"You are forced to accept charity," he said. "It's demeaning."

Tuff noogies. Let them sleep in the street if it's so friggin' demeaning. Jerks.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

You could see the hurt in their faces after being treated so shabby by these ex co-workers.

Makes me wonder. Why do some people get off by doing that? Is there a missing circuit in their heads? It makes no sense when doing just the opposite feels so danged good.

[muir_redwoods]

"A small gift makes a friend, a too-large gift makes an enemy"

[Texas Termite]

What a shame. They had a chance at a new start and the drug demon proved waaaaaaay too strong and tempting. When I heard about what they did, my first thought was how does a young person have the know-how to do something like this? My question has been answered.

Nana

[SALChamps03]

These are the kind of people who were so irresponsible that they didn't leave when they knew the hurricane was coming, and can't take care of their own problems. They are trash. This is why I don't feel sorry for 90% of the "victims." The responsible ones are back down there taking the responsibility of rebuilding on themselves.

[tgslTakoma]

Well, for folks who might have assumed that the family was black, they would be wrong.

The Baltimore Sun wrote a story about this family, dated October 11, 2005; before things went sour. Interesting story.

Photos of some of the family members:

Sandra Brown stirs rice while her daughter Rachel peeks into another pot. The Browns were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. (Sun photo by Elizabeth Malby) Oct 5, 2005

Rachel Brown, 10, tries on a sweat shirt while the rest of her family looks through donated items. "I don't need nothing more. They gave us everything," Rachel said of her family's benefactors. (Sun photo by Barbara Haddock Taylor) Sep 29, 2005

Cody Brown, 13, and his sister Heidi, 14, look through donated items. Cody's major find was a letterman's jacket. Heidi chose a purse and other items. (Sun photo by Barbara Haddock Taylor) Oct 11, 2005

Sandra and Keith Brown, who live in Westminster after losing their Houma, La., home, fill out job applications in their new kitchen. Their daughter Rachel, 10, looks on. (Sun photo by Elizabeth Malby) Oct 5, 2005

[thathamiltonwoman]

Hmm. They look white to me. Thanks for posting this. Trash comes in all colors, folks.