Stealing is wrong period. Just because it's easy to steal doesn't make it right or justified. To use the theory that insurance will be paying for it is ridiculous, everyone will pay more for insurance for a few lowlifes and losers to get their jollies off of stolen booty.

Exactly what I saw - these scumbags need some type of fucking wakeup call - I didn't see anyone in a few pictures running out with food in their arms.
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there were reports that cops were at walmart with everyone else breaking into shit and taking it away.... and at a drug store in NO the cops said the people could come in and soon as they were done getting emergency supplies

Show pictures of the cops, and I think that will be an adequate response to your comment.

we can sit here and argue over something like looting but we are forgetting the big picture...

these people just lost everthing they had, which for most wasn't much at all.
Some lost family members and if you have been watching CNN you will see that their are young children who can't find their moms or dads...
I think looting is the least of the worries right now...

There is always going to people in any situation that take advantage but that doesn't mean that everyone that lives in Nola are criminals or low lifes... Criminals and theifs live in nice areas too, hell they might even live next door to you...lol

Look at it this way. You are telling someone who has had nothing their entire life, barely enough to put clothes on their back, that they can loot and take anything they want for free. As much as I disagree with it, it is human nature to take what we can get. Look at file sharing and how many people just download songs for free. Is that better because it is more of a white collar crime?

On the other hand, it is pathetic. Although some are grabbing food for survival, others are grabbing TV, jewelry and anything else they can grab of value. There is a reason people are grabbing boxes of diapers instead of baby food.

I agree with a point made earlier. We hear about people in poor neighborhoods complaining about no jobs or businesses in the area. Well now we see why. Do you think the guy who owns a shoe store on the corner is going to re-open in that same neighborhood? For any excuse they make up, all they are doing is shooting themselves in the foot.

Food for thought:

Once the food supply runs out, I bet the guy with the tv and the Nikes will be able to trade for more food than the guy who took the moral high road.

Do those things still work? I thought they would be ruined from the water damage. Where do they even put them after they are stolen?? :helpme

I would show sympathy if people were getting FOOD. The mindset of the remaining populous is extremely clear, "Fuck Food, they will give me that soon, I'm getting some bling while I can".

This is indicative of the entire problem. When chaos ensues, the scabs on society fester. It happens everytime!

Do not put their decisions they have made in life, as some guilt trip on me, and make society continually pay for their misfortune.

This country has gotten way to soft on this shit for fear of being labeled. It is clear this was going to happen as soon as the storm hit.

Care to wager on what will happen next?

It is a text book example:

1. Event happens that occupies law enforcement.
Result: looting

2. Looting is now complete. Lets resort to violence.
Result: riots (riots will ensue at the Superdome shortly)

3. Rioting is done, blood has flown. Lets now do a cash grab.
Result: Queue Jessie Jackson and Rev Sharpton

"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.



Believe it or not.. this is what it all comes down to. These people have NOTHING.. are not attached to their houses.. this Hurricane is just another issue on top of many others they are used to all their lives. So they dont give a fuck and just SURVIVE and make the best possible out of EVERY situation.

When a REAL disaster happens nation wide (nukes?) and only a few HUMANS are able to survive guess what race that will be....

Whitey scared in its basement screaming "outfall outfall!"

vs

black dude: "more free beer and lets kill whitey!!"

I can see it happen haha

Hmmm, maybe the same ones that built all of society, and everything in it? Just a thought.

For the looting mentality to maintain itself (survival as you call it), they need someone's hard work to pilfer from.

Wow, many of you here are fucking idiots and ignorant! You sit back and judge and somehow you feel fucking superior and comfortable with your way of life. I would love for one day for you to be out of your comfort level and see what you'll do. Think outside the box and sympathize what others are going thru.

It's not just a black/white issue.... Do you realize there's 3 or 4 states with diverse people who are displaced and disshoveled?? I understand about looting food and basic needs but materialistic possesions I don't :2 cents:

I think the quotes of "we were opressed our whole lives" is complete garbage and a lame excuse to steal. These excuses are just made up so that they can justify committing a crime. We make excuses after trials, after events, after winning championships that justify looting. Come on, it's a bunch of crooks taking advantage of other people. What if it was your house and your possesions being looted?

All you people sitting back in your nice homes putting judgement on these people. It must be nice to sit back relaxed in your air conditioned place of residence, with food, shelter, and family. Watching the people on the news who have lost their homes, family, and their lives try to survive.

Fucking scum passing judgement in the way you have.

It is flabbergasting that so many people on here and in our industry have such narrow fucking racist views/ideas/beliefs. One would think that an industry that is constantly shunned/judged/misread etc would weed out the idiots that can't think beyond their own fucking front porch, sorta like natural selection. Apparently this is not the case, the number of people on here that are fond of blaming shit on race, be it black or white, is god damn staggering!

The looting doesn't have shit to do with race, never has never will. I don't give a fuck what circumstance you are talking about; a trial, a sports event, a god damn disaster, People can and often take Complete Advantage of misfortune and or opportunity and or both, to pin that on any one race is absolutely fucking IDIOTIC. The news shows a bunch of black people looting and we take a "well what do you expect they are black, you don't see the white people doing that, white people were smart enough to evacuate" stance as if the news is handing us an objective fucking view of the situation...Get Real.

Not to mention most of you have no ability to fucking empathize; that fortunately (I'd think) is an entirely different post!

sweetcuties and potter couldn't have said it better....

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and that is an excuse?

Maybe that's just the motivation needed to start shooting some worthless fucks. I don't condone stealing but I understand the need to steal food and water to survive and the "overlooking" that has gone on so far by the police for the folks raiding essentials.

But when you see some fucker helping himself inside a Jewelry store - that one needs a cap in his ass!

Thank you for confirming your idiocy for me once again.

I would not do business with you if it were to save my life.

nigga gotta wear lacoste shoes and feed their baby mama's

Yeah, they need that jewelry, tv's, and beer to survive! :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Um, been there and done that. 9-11, I had no home for 3 months because it was 2 blocks away. I was walking around that area all day long on 9-11 with no one around to stop me. I can honestly say, that not once did I think of taking something that wasn't mine. My friends and relatives had to talk me into going to red cross to get help for me and my wife and kid.

Some of us steal, some of us leach off of others,very few of us pull up our fucking boot straps and get on with it.

If people need help that is one thing. Stealing when other people are down is the fucking lowest of the low.

I think you just made me sad . . . are you trying to justify this theft?

I gave you too much credit

I don't care if someone has nothing. If they need help to live and survive those services are available. At no time is theft acceptable. Any argument to the contrary is ridiculous dramatic babble.

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Amen. It is those that think humans turn to criminals without law enforcement or 'nothing left to lose' that are the enablers for the criminals. The apologists will think of every excuse to account for people's complete disregard for how civil society functions.

Poverty is a state of mind. Most of these people are too fucking lazy to get a job.

thank you it wasnt the garden of eden lol

well baddog if you had read my earlier post in this thread then maybe you would feel differently... in no way was i saying that stealing is ok or even ok in this type of situation....

all i said was that in a time like this when families have been taken from each other and children can't find their parents and the babies don't have food or diapers that maybe we shouldn't be arguing about something like looting, instead why not put all our engery in this argument on a chat board into helping those who need it.

Do you realise that their are families with small children stuck in their homes which are filling with water, and there is nothing they can do... some of them have cell phones that they have been able to use to call family members out of state to say their good bye's or plead for help... something to think about isn't it baddog ?

i'm planning on going into Mexico this weekend to help relieve families....what are you doing to help out??????

maybe i gave you too much credit :Oh crap

niggers got their booze, next they will be drunk and start

rioting. Superdome won`t be safe place this night

All I'm saying is when survival is suddenly your first priority, the fact that you can't afford to pay for something becomes irrelevant. If you have a starving child or a sick spouse, you're going to do what it takes to save him or her. If stockpiling goods is the best way to provide for yourself in the long term, then that's what you'll do.

1) Find or build shelter
2) Locate fresh water
3) Locate and secure food
10) Worry about regional laws and societal restrictions

so much love in this thread

When did I say they did? The extreme amount of racism in this thread is making me sick and people just accept it. I agree that looting jewelry is dumb, but when people go "lol black people figures they steal gucci and nike and they they go back to mud pits where they belong lol in africa right guys?" Seriously, being racist isnt helping the situation, and neither is calling people out for what other people do.

Yeah, I can see why stealing tv's and Nikes would be such a priority.

if i lost everything i own due to a hurricane like that.. you better believe im gonna loot a jewelry store.. the fucking jewelry is insured anyway. the shop owner doesnt lose shit.

cut the moral shit out.

I would love to see how some people here react when their home gets flooded and they got no where else to go and don't know what the fuck is going on. But wait, we are all perfect :)

if you look at the video they had shit eatting grins on their faces as they were looting.

If you loot a grocery store to feed the family, fine.... but most of these guys went for the jeans, jewelry etc. Shit even carjackings. come on. Drop the thug shit for a week .

reading some of the responses in this thread is a good wake-up call as to who to trust and who really would fuck ya in 2 seconds :disgust

Would I loot food if I really needed it? ya probably
Is there a reason to take a bat and smash a jewelry shop window and grab everything possible - NO never

Exactly. I also stated in my first post that I did not condone the looting. I was merely saying everyone here was far to quick to judge while packed away in their nice cumfy chairs. :helpme

Wow, your knowledge of how retail insurance works and what it takes to build a small retail business is breathtakingly non-existent.

I'll tell you what, if it was my store and you were trying to loot it, I would just shoot you. "cut the moral shit"? I guess that you have never worked to build anything of any substance in your life. I hope someday you have a chance to grow up and care about anyone else but yourself.

I guess that this means that if you and I were doing business and you saw a way to steal from me and not get caught.... you would take it. NICE.

As for the people that are saying that these people have not choice, and are just trying to help their families, then why didn't they do "whatever it took" to get their children out of danger in the first place?

I don't care if I had to walk out of town. I HAVE been homeless and poor, and if I had children in that situation, I would do whatever it took to save them, and that means NOT putting them at risk by staying when the storm was coming in.

The stuff being stolen has NOTHING to do with survival at this point. It's just people acting like animals.

Just my lil' old opinion. :2 cents:

Precisely

1)Redcross
2)Salvation Army
3)Local Charity
10)Jail

free beer foo...

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg....na_ladm109.jpg

hey, i WORKED for what I have. I didn't steal it from someone else. WORKED for it. Yes, I've been homeless with no money and no job and not eaten anything but scraps for a week. Now I make 6 figures. And I fucking WORKED for it.

So yeah, it IS nice sitting here watching it. From my perspective, pure fucking common sense says 'when your city is below sea level in an area that has things like hurricanes'...MOVE!

only on gfy can me have drama about looting

EXACTLY.....

100........

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woooooj on the job :winkwink: