Breaking new from N.O.

[Bitterwheat]

Report from Fox News. eight people shot on bridge in N.O. five to six are killed.
all were carrying guns. Nothing is know at this time for the reason. Just thought you might want to know

[Arcey]

From a Bloomberg article, somewhere around three this afternoon:

"The increased military presence helped local law enforcement curtail once-rampant looting, police said.

Still, police in New Orleans shot eight people with guns on an overpass, killing as many as six of them, Cable News Network reported, citing the Associated Press. Officials had been given a so-called shoot-to-kill order for people with firearms after looting broke out across the city in the days following Hurricane Katrina, CNN said. "

FWIW....

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Firther reports said they fired on some Corps of Engineers contractors by the 17th St. levy. Police returned fire and killed four of them. Contractors said to be unharmed.
Also a CG chopper went down there, said to have rolled over during landing, crew okay with minor injuries.........Buck

[Big John Denny]

Sounds like the local residents want to keep their city under water. They were in fact shooting at Corps employees trying to work on a broken dike. Don't fire a gun at someone if you don't want return fire.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Turns out that chopper was a Civvy. I missed the N number on the tail assembly, had mech. problems and went over when it sat down........Buck

[Derby Younger]

Wrong topic. Deleted.

[Calamity Jane]

FWIW:

Just read an email from a gallery owner on the edge of the French Quarter who has stayed thru the whole thing to look after his gallery. From his report, the incidents of looting have been WAY over-blown by the media. He says those that have remained are, for the most part, working together to help each other. He said that much so-called "looting" has been locals searching for food and water. He did say that the police and fire departments are noteably abscent.

[Sergeant Smokepole]

FWIW:

Just read an email from a gallery owner on the edge of the French Quarter who has stayed thru the whole thing to look after his gallery. From his report, the incidents of looting have been WAY over-blown by the media. He says those that have remained are, for the most part, working together to help each other. He said that much so-called "looting" has been locals searching for food and water. He did say that the police and fire departments are noteably abscent.

Janie,
My son in law is down there and your friend is downplaying the situation. The looters are not content with breaking into stores for food and water. They are breaking into stores for tv's, vcr's computers, who;e racks of clothing, jewelry shops......


Nobody there has a problem with the basic necessities for survival but how the deuce are you gonna eat a television?? The miscreants are using this as an excuse to be thieves and rascals..... I saw on tv the interviews at the Superdome. The people there were griping about give me this give me that, why isn't someone helping us? We have garbage all around us. We have no toilet facilities..... I understand the request for food, water, shelter, and medicine. That's not an issue. What I have issue with are the young able bodied in the group just sitting on their arse's saying gimme, gimme, gimme. The garbage was laying at their feet and they made no effort to clean it up. They could have formed work parties (OOPS, bad word..............) and hauled all the garbage to a central spot outside and started burning it in small piles. There were plenty of tools available, shovels, hammers, sawa, nails etc... and they could have been used to dig a slit trench for handling the human waste instead of crapping all over the place... I don't know if it was laziness, stupidity, ignorance or a combination of these in play here. Maybe some felt too good to work for a common goal and found it easier to point fingers and blame someone for them being too stupid to heed warning that were given 4 days earlier to evacuate. One young man even griped about the police spending their efforts stopping looters and keeping order and they had to (get off their lazy self centered asses) to help their neighbors leave their homes.....



My opinion is that the ones that stayed fall into one of three categories:

1. The I'm gonna stay here and protect my stuff. I'm not leaving.

This one is so stupid as to actually believe that he can keep his stuff safe from a category 5 hurricane (Wrath of God). This is nature's way to cull the stupid from the gene pool.


2. The I'm gonna stay here and have a hurricane party.

This also falls into nature culling the stupid from the gene pool.


3. The Vultures.

I'm gonna wait for all the places to be left unprotected and then it's shopping day. Another reason for nature to cull these from the gene pool.



The old and infirmed that were left to die in places such as nursing homes were killed by negligence by facility administrators.