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Originally posted by zarrell@Aug 30 2005, 05:49 PM
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@Aug 30 2005, 06:43 PM
You have to take into account the extreme desperation these people already lived in before this disaster.# Can you expect these people not to loot, when they are so poor, they couldn't even get out when the evactuation was called?
If I had to live like them, I can't guarentee I wouldn't be looting too.
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So being poor justifies theft? 
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being homeless, and the chances are that all the stuff is going to be destroyed by the rising water justifies taking necessities like clothes and food. [/b][/quote]
Mostly they look like garden variety looters who would be shot at in most other circumstances. . . . .
Anyone watch CNN a few hours ago when they had on a lady who had survived the Biloxi wipeout? I only mention her because, standing amid the rubble of her home and the rubble of all her neighbours homes, with tears streaming down her face, she had the most amazing pile of curlers arranging her hair that appeared to be straight out of Trailer Trash Weekly. Not belittling her plight but I couldn't help but wonder when she would have had the time and the inclination to throw her hair up in binders like that. An amazing sight.
Cowperson