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#41 Postby blueeyes_austin » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:44 pm

One would think that, after Baghdad, no one would entertain illusions about the essentially harmless nature of looting...or the consequences of it continuing unchecked.
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#42 Postby alicia-w » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:46 pm

I think this thread has been inappropriately hijacked. It's about the dead in Biloxi and Louisiana, not some of the poor unfortunates left behind who've chosen to behave a certain way. Show some respect.
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#43 Postby Mobile Expat » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:46 pm


And the National Guard is where?



um, Iraq?
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#44 Postby NFLnut » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:59 pm

Mobile Expat wrote:

And the National Guard is where?



um, Iraq?



A percentage of the available Nat Guard is in Iraq. The MAJORITY is still in LA, MS, and AL.
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#45 Postby eastncweather » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:59 pm

The thing is yesterday some of these people were looting during the height of the storm. These people have no morals or a conscience I can understand maybe getting some food that will spoil or some clean water but domestic products and stuff like that is unacceptable. It will begin with looting but before you know it there will be all out disregard for law and order. These people act like unruly animals and how do we take care of unruly animals? You guessed it. I agree with soonertwister these times are very very rare and drastic but drastic times call for drastic measures.
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#46 Postby Jim Hughes » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:08 pm

Mobile Expat wrote:

And the National Guard is where?



um, Iraq?


It's pretty hard to rescue people and impose Marshall Law when you only have a small part of the whole. This is an extreme situation and these individuals are severely depleted becuase of Iraq. I have heard numbers like 800 being called up. They need more help than that right now.

Another natural disaster right now would overwhelm FEMA.


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#47 Postby cancunkid » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:12 pm

Going back to what this post originally was about after seeing the flyover on http://www.wlbt.com/ I would be surprised if there are not at least hundreds dead. Mississippi coast is just gone.
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#48 Postby Jim Hughes » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:12 pm

Sorry for repeat
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#49 Postby johngaltfla » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:13 pm

Stephanie wrote:
ColdWaterConch wrote:An Assosiated Press reporter on the beach in Biloxi says it "looks like a free-for-all," as looters come running out of souvenir shops, loaded down with merchandise.

He saw two men riding go-carts taken from an amusement park near the beach.

Two men were pushing a large plastic garbage can with wheels -- so full that it took both of them to drag it down the street.
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I guess some of them survived.....


I shouldn't say this, but they should be shot!!! :grr:


Actually in Punta Gorda, most residents put signs on their homes in crude spray paint saying that.

There isn't a jury in the world that would convict someone who shot someone who is looting their homes.

I for one back shooting looters on site.
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#50 Postby GalvestonDuck » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:17 pm

From Charley aftermath:

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/114/1116/640/3Z[HX=~Q=FAJ)@XI,M5Z=F_NPhoto.jpg

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#51 Postby chadtm80 » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:21 pm

wlfpack81 wrote:
Stephanie wrote:I shouldn't say this, but they should be shot!!! :grr:


Well, the second mod to make this statement. Guess it's now a free for all on comments on the board. Arrest these people but DON'T SHOOT THEM. We have something called due process were people are arrested and sent to jail not shot on site like this is the wild wild west. Yes looting is bad but YOU JUST SIMPLY CAN'T SHOOT PEOPLE ON SITE LIKE THAT. I mean come on we're supposed to be such a great loving Christian country :roll: Shooting on site would be going against God's wishes would it not!? I mean we don't do stuff like that here....

Ok time to take a break before I really let my opinions fly and get banned from here.

SHOOT THEM ON SITE.. Or maybe you would prefere this continue to happen?
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=72739 :darrow:
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#52 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:25 pm

It's horrible that so many died but why didn't they evacuate? That place
was forecasted to receive an almost cat 5 surge--> I would flee instantly days in advance if I were in that situation.
This is HORRIBLE...


Now I do not think anyone deserves to die, but deciding to
ride out a cat 5 surge is basically deciding to commit suicide.

Why didn't they evacuate?? WHY!!!!!??!?!?!? :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
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#53 Postby johngaltfla » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:26 pm

Thank you GD. You posted that while I was in the process of locating my Charley pics. There are still homes down there, falling apart sadly, with that painted on them.

There is a time and place for due process. If someone is there to steal my lifelong belongings and threaten my family or business, which is all I'd have left after a Cat 4, then they deserve the due process of a bullet.

No other opinions from others matter on this subject to me.
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#54 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:28 pm

This situation is horrific beyond my imaginations...I'm shocked and saddened that so many refused evacuations.
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#55 Postby Angferba » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:53 pm

Sadly looting and not leaving are very closely connected.
Some will have stayed for the express purpose of looting...they are not going to pass up the opportunity this disaster affords them...oh no!!

Many will have stayed to protect their homes and livlihoods from the looters, sadly those are the ones that will probably die. The feral elements of the population always seem to get by.

A shoot to kill policy with looters, while extreme, may in the long term get more folks out of town in an emergency evac situation.
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#56 Postby blueeyes_austin » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:01 pm

Angferba wrote:A shoot to kill policy with looters, while extreme, may in the long term get more folks out of town in an emergency evac situation.


Exactly.
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#57 Postby cjrciadt » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:01 pm

blueeyes_austin wrote:
Angferba wrote:A shoot to kill policy with looters, while extreme, may in the long term get more folks out of town in an emergency evac situation.


Exactly.
They dont even have to use live ammo, just rubber bullets or Tasers.
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#58 Postby Angferba » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:06 pm

cjrciadt wrote:
blueeyes_austin wrote:
Angferba wrote:A shoot to kill policy with looters, while extreme, may in the long term get more folks out of town in an emergency evac situation.


Exactly.
They dont even have to use live ammo, just rubber bullets or Tasers.


We have already seen today that the looters are not so considerate....I believe a police officer was shot intercepting looters.
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