Chaos mounts as looters shoot at helicopters

[VeriSexy]

LMAO looks like they don't want to be help and want to loot longer....

New Orleans descended into chaos on Thursday with rampant looting and reports of people shooting at rescue helicopters and hospital workers. Throughout the day teams struggled to save residents trapped in flooded areas of the city but thousands of people remained without food and shelter.


Authorities said the death toll could be in the thousands, with rescue workers ignoring bodies in the streets as they concentrated on helping survivors. Hungry, angry residents gathered around the Superdome and convention centre complained that very few buses had been brought into the city to evacuate them.

The Pentagon mobilised additional National Guard troops, saying their numbers would rise to 30,000 within days, and deployed the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier to join other navy ships off the Gulf coast to help the relief effort. The National Guard, which includes a significant number of military police, will help local law enforcement officials deal with looting.

President George W. Bush on Thursday called for ?zero tolerance? of looters.

Rescue workers were trying to evacuate more than 40,000 people still trapped in New Orleans yesterday as overwhelmed hospitals attempted to deal with the influx of wounded and sick. In at least one hospital, patients were stranded with no food and water. At Charity hospital, a sniper reportedly opened fire as staff were trying to evacuate critically ill patients. A Navy hospital ship is expected to leave Baltimore on Friday for the region.

Michael Chertoff, homeland security secretary, said the government was ?working tirelessly? to deploy resources across the Gulf coast but it could take months before power was restored in New Orleans.

He rejected suggestions that the federal government had not prepared adequately for the category 5 hurricane. Critics have pointed to previous warnings that the levees in New Orleans, which are below sea level, were not robust enough to survive huge storms.

?A hurricane is a classic act of nature, an act of God. You can?t stop it,? said Mr Chertoff. ?What we can do and what we have done is get ourselves to the utmost level of preparedness. And while nobody can ever be completely prepared for an event of this horrible magnitude, I?d say we?re much better prepared than we?ve ever been.?

Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi and former Washington lobbyist with close ties to the Bush administration, also dismissed suggestions that the federal government was not adequately prepared.

Mr Bush met former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who agreed to spearhead a campaign to raise funds for the relief effort.


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[Harmon]

Old news, but a good refresher. They are animals and need to be exterminated, plain and simple.

[Major (Tom)]

funny how Lousianna has pretty stiff obscenity penalties but they totally discount murder, rape, and looting. Boggles the mind. So much for "community standards" and I BET this behaivor will be used as a defense, if admisable, to show how irrelavant community standards are in obscenity.

Duke

[Spunky]

Some idiots are going to ruin it for the good people that want the help.they should shoot the looters

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by spunky

Some idiots are going to ruin it for the good people that want the help.they should shoot the looters

And you know what? It really is just that simple.

[VeriSexy]

Copy and Paste from another forum


" I was just watching CNN when one of their medical correspondants was doing a report when their amphibious vehicle that was ferrying patients to other hospitals came under heavy sniper fire. Gangs of armed looters with M-4's, AK47's, RPK's and pistols have taken over many New Orleans streets in order to loot them dry.

There have been other reports suggesting that two snipers took pop shots at starving civilians outside the Convention Center. And a civilian car was heavily struck with sniper gunfire while travelling I-10. I don't have any Internet source except pictures and word from CNN. I'll get more sustaining sources as they come in.

Instead of helping those in need or just going to proper refugee staging areas, these assholes feel the impulse to kill people and harass the recovery and reconstruction process. These people are true domestic terrorists that need to be tortured, drawn and quartered.

Praying for the victims,
SuperShot5000

P.S. What the f*ck is going on at the convention center? People are literally starving and are beginning to drop dead from lack of medicine, dehydration, and now starvation. The Superdome people are faring quite well. They have showered, eaten, been given medicine, hydrated, and have lights and being rapidly evacuated. But these Convention Center people are starving and being shot at. There is no law enforcement or military presence. Not one feeding station is set up. There are no buses or helicopters coming, at all. Help needs to be sent to the ABANDONED refugees at the Convention Center immediatly or everyone there will eventually die."


These could be first incidents of angry people living in America who want to take shots at US in general. People like Timothy McVeigh who blew up WTC in 90s.

[reynold]

People's safety and evacuation should be the first priority.