NationStates Jolt Archive

Heard the NG inside just asked for re-inforcements, and that 1500 more MPs were being sent to the Super(cesspool)Dome to help control the crowd.

A fella on one of my other forums has a brother in the NG down in NO, here's what he said:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I just got off the phone with him 11:15 CST.

Expecting any minute now U-Haul trucks full of displaced and....bodies.

Have called in 150 M.P's (military popo's) for reinforcement.

Can't walk a step without stepping in human feces and urine.

Restlessness has begun, lots of fighting.

Displaced being fed MRE's (to inhibit bowel movements)

Endless whining.

He managed to get throught to me to say he needed to hear a friendly voice.

Evidently.....he and his ilk are satans' spawn.

He's a grown man but he's still my little brother.

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Whoops, 150 not 1500 MPs.

I am angry these people are even considered

Americans.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9131493/


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.”

‘Everybody’s store’
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.


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“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.

Some in the crowd splashed into the waist-deep water like giddy children at the beach.

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 right now,” she said as she held a plastic bag full of purloined items. “We got to feed our children. I’ve got eight grandchildren to feed.”

Police commandeer pharmacy
At a drug store on Canal Street just outside the French Quarter, two police officers with pump shotguns stood guard as workers from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel across the street loaded large laundry bins full of medications, snack foods and bottled water.

“This is for the sick,” Officer Jeff Jacob said. “We can commandeer whatever we see fit, whatever is necessary to maintain law.”

Another officer, D.J. Butler, told the crowd standing around that they would be out of the way as soon as they got the necessities.

“I’m not saying you’re welcome to it,” the officer said. “This is the situation we’re in. We have to make the best of it.”

The looting was taking place in full view of passing National Guard trucks and police cruisers.

One man with an armload of clothes even asked a policeman, “Can I borrow your car?”

Awwwww, but lootin' is much fun...


Pfffft (read: NOT!)

Looters either loose or never had any sense of proportion or conscience. Only reason folks get away with it because its happening during a time when the police have more important things to do (ie:save lives)

Interesting contrast there, what with employees of the Ritz-Carlton breaking their back to get supplies for those who need them, while 2 cops hold off looters who just want some happy-pills free of charge.

A fella on one of my other forums has a brother in the NG down in NO, here's what he said:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I just got off the phone with him 11:15 CST.

Expecting any minute now U-Haul trucks full of displaced and....bodies.

Have called in 150 M.P's (military popo's) for reinforcement.

Can't walk a step without stepping in human feces and urine.

Restlessness has begun, lots of fighting.

Displaced being fed MRE's (to inhibit bowel movements)

Endless whining.

He managed to get throught to me to say he needed to hear a friendly voice.

Evidently.....he and his ilk are satans' spawn.

He's a grown man but he's still my little brother.

_____________

Whoops, 150 not 1500 MPs.
Quite frankly, I don't blame them. It's smelly, dirty, and there is no electricity, A/C, or running water. That may be fine in itself, but not with 30,000 people.

I'm surprised the people in the superdome are bitching. They're lucky it's owned by the city adn was opened up. And any harder winds would've ripped away the entire roof, exposing a drowning hazard, and too much more wind or a tornado could've DESTROYED the building.

How many people are in the Super Dome?

I'm surprised the people in the superdome are bitching. They're lucky it's owned by the city adn was opened up. And any harder winds would've ripped away the entire roof, exposing a drowning hazard, and too much more wind or a tornado could've DESTROYED the building.
These people have very bare necessities. They probably have minimal food, they are scared, and they are probably very bored. The special needs patients aren't helping matters. Already, two patients have died. Isn't that reason for panic? They are alive, but they don't care. Objectivity does not matter in social emergencies so much as relativity does.

These people have very bare necessities. They probably have minimal food, they are scared, and they are probably very bored. The special needs patients aren't helping matters. Already, two patients have died. Isn't that reason for panic? They are alive, but they don't care. Objectivity does not matter in social emergencies so much as relativity does.

I'm just saying, they're better off in there than in the streets, or canals, whichever works.

I'm just saying, they're better off in there than in the streets, or canals, whichever works.
They probably are, but they don't know it. TVs obviously don't work, and any of the phone networks have been wiped out. No internet, either. Information can't get to othe othe New Orleanders, and as long as it doesn't, they'll bitch.

How many people are in the Super Dome?

It was 10,000, but they are bringing in more, and it's up to 30,000 now according to this:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/30/katrina.neworleans/index.html

If I lived in a major flood zone, the first thing I would buy is a boat. Shit, we have a boat in our backyard and there arn't any floods here.

ARF-COM and IBTL I am getting tired of your trolling. Knock it off.