I say no excuse for the looting except for the food. There were guys giving interviews on the news with TV's and all sorts of stuff in the carts at walmart. CD's and everything. Those people are a plague on mankind.

 

Anyone caught stepping over dead people to get their belongings should be hung on the spot. That's truly the lowest of the low.

 

Well, surely it ranks higher than traffic control.







They are still committing a crime.

 

And have no taste!

 

It's an easy answer. If you're taking food medicine etc to survive, that's not looting. Survival comes first.

If you're taking food medicine or anything to profit from it, that's looting. The question becomes, how do you decide? I'd hate to be a natl guardsman making that decision over a gunsight.

Then we get to what is looting and what is salvage. How about those floating casinos. Aren't they now marine salvage? As a retailer, I know anything left in the stores is trash and will be written off by the time they get back to it.

What bothers me is I can imagine that a certain amount of people are in New Orleans with a stash of food and water, just waiting for the city to empty so the pillage can continue. I know from experience the sharks will move in to feed on the fishes. It's a sad part of human nature.

I just hope the tragedy can be managed as best as possible. I would imagine there will be a big population shift, just as we saw after Andrew as people spread out into different communities rather than return.

I would imagine all the major metro areas are planning for an increase in various welfare and social service needs as the poor spread out. Remember they have no backup plan, no money etc. They will head where services are most available.

Most of all I hope everybody makes it that can and in the end we grow a little stronger because of it.

fltsfshr

 

Yes, certainly higher than traffic. I think search and rescue and then complete evacuation is what's happening now.

 

Maybe now is the time to set an example for the next natural disaster or man-made disaster.

You loot. Police shoot.

 

[QUOTE=JerseyGirl,Aug 31 2005, 03:55 PM] In a situation like New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina, I feel that people had plenty of notice to get the hell out of dodge, knowing that a category 5 hurricane was on the way and that destruction was almost certain. With various shelters and even free shuttle service being offered to get people out of their homes and to safe

 

Google "Jean Charles de Menezes"

 

[QUOTE=mav,Aug 31 2005, 05:37 PM] I disagree.