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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
Kenyans with jobs make 5 dollars a day. Those things in that mall would be like someone dropping 50,000 cash in front of you. How many people would take it? In DC, 20% of people stole bottles of TEA which they easily could have afforded. If it was 50,000 you bet a large number of them would take it. If it was 1 trillion then they set up a whole government to steal it.
Also 3 soldiers died saving people. Personally, if my family was hungry and I had to take something off a rich person to feed them, I would.
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A newly-commissioned Kenyan soldier makes 130,000 Kenyan shillings per month, which at today's rate of exchange is $1,500.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_d...t_earn_monthly
That's way more than $5 a day - in fact it's more than a lot of Americans make, albeit being a Kenyan soldier does have it's drawbacks.
My point, lost on all of the gregarious souls posting here, was that I EXPECTED LOOTING. Many human beings, African and otherwise, have larceny in their hearts, especially when no one is looking.
What shocked me wasn't the looting, but that the military would prolong the siege by DAYS in order to have more time to ransack the place. Especially while the whole world was watching. That's way different than a crime of opportunity. That's CREATING the opportunity.