Looters of N.O.

What do you think would be adequate action to take against looters? From what i read they are havibg a field day. I for one would not be adverse to shooting these ghouls

Sure, shoot some 15 year-old for stealing food. Or would you make a distinction.Like jewelry for example?
The fact is, these stores are a total loss and the insurance companies know it. So do the owners. So do the police. Killing these poor people after they survived this natural disaster seems like...well...overkill.

panzade
I take it you condone looting!

What a silly jump in logic!!

I said I don't believe in killing looters. Is that hard to grasp?

panzade
What than turn the other cheek.

Shooting is very extreme for looters, and I have every sympathy for those effected.
I think its very unfair to the shop owners if the shops are robbed, the looters should be sent to court.

Im also wondering how much warning there was for this storm.
If they had warning shouldnt they have bought provisions beforehand.

New Orleans is such a high-class area...what happened?

Hahahahahahahhahahahaha.

What subtlety of vision! What a priceless example of logic! Either we shoot 'em or we ignore 'em. Certainly, there is no room between those two choices.

material girl
If you have read reports regarding the looting you would have seen that much of the looting was of hard goods. And based on previous disasters that is par for the course.

As long as people, the ghouls, know that they can loot in complete safety and with impunity looting will persist.

In 1916 the port of Halifax Nova Scotia was an assembly point for convoys going to England with war supplied. In April of that year a transport packed with explosives, exploded in the harbor and devastated the city. To stop looting the authorities shot one looter, nailed his body to a door and displayed it. The looting stopped immediately. I'm not necessarily recommending this, but it did work.

Haven't seen anyone with a tv or stereo in their arms yet.

Actually, shoot or ignore is the scope of options.

There is no time to arrest--and nowhere to put the arrested.

I say--videotape what you can--and if you can find them later--OK--prosecute.

A lot of people are stealing food and sustenance items. I feel for the store owners in this case. Hopefully, a remedy can be found for them.

You can't shoot them for stealing. You could maybe whack them with a big stick...

eoe

By all reports they did a job on jewlery stores and any thing else they could cart off.

Gulf Coast Struggles to Find Survivors

By BRETT MARTEL
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Along the Gulf Coast, there was simply no time even to count the dead. Engineers scrambled to plug two broken New Orleans levees and rescuers searched for survivors clinging to both hope and rooftops as the swirling, tea-colored water continued to rise.

Looting broke out in some New Orleans neighborhoods, prompting authorities to send more than 70 additional officers and an armed personnel carrier into the city. One police officer was shot in the head by a looter, but was expected to recover, said Sgt. Paul Accardo, a police spokesman.

On New Orleans' Canal Street, dozens of looters ripped open the steel gates on clothing and jewelry stores and grabbed merchandise. In Biloxi, Miss., people picked through casino slot machines for coins and ransacked other businesses. In some cases, the looting was in full view of police and National Guardsmen.


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Will confirm looting of non-food items. Department/jewelry stores have been broken into--and taped for posterity.

Do you guys think between a flight and shipping costs, it would be cheaper to go steal a plasma tv, rather than just go buy one?

Depends on the size. Remember you have to get it out of the store and down a flooded street. Some of which are 20 feet under water.

Sharks are also sighted cruising Canal Street. Factor in shark repellant...