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| Author: | mattlott [ 22 Jan 2006, 08:18 ] |
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excerpts from todays times picayune where the looting continues in new orleans. You guys are going to laugh your ass off on this one. ___ A Gentilly couple barricaded their vacant home's doors and windows with plywood after being looted once, only to have other looters tear down the wood to take more stuff. An evacuee dialing her Algiers apartment to check whether phone service had been restored got jolted when a man answered. She found the place ransacked a few weeks later. A New Orleans police officer responding to a looting call found items stolen from his in-laws' home, including a copy of his own wedding videotape. Sgt. Charles Miller, who worked in the NOPD's anti-looting squad until it was phased out a few weeks ago, made one arrest in which he recovered property belonging to his in-laws, including his own wedding videotape. Miller, now assigned to the 2nd District, said he figured the ransacking of his in-laws' 9th Ward house would end with his police report, given the needle-in-a-haystack odds of finding the stolen goods and catching a perpetrator. But a couple of weeks later, he said, his mother-in-law spotted a suspicious stack of merchandise through her neighbor's window. When Miller investigated, he discovered a television that looked like hers, as well as a cache of furniture with store tags attached. With firm legal grounds to conduct a thorough search, Miller said he was flabbergasted when he stumbled across his wedding video. "I was shocked. But I'm glad I was able to get it back because the only other copy was in my house in Lakeview," said Miller, who lost everything in the flood. "The best part was that we caught the guy and retrieved some irreplaceable property." One of the most outrageous examples took place in Algiers, which stayed mostly high and dry after the storm. Just before Katrina rumbled through the city, Keisha Robertson, a 25-year-old mother with twin 5-year-old boys, left her Higgins Gate apartment and headed for Atlanta. After a couple of months in exile, she dialed her home number to see whether it was still connected. It was -- and someone answered. "It was unbelievable," Robertson said, "and he had the nerve to ask me who I was and what I wanted." The man told her how comfortable her apartment was, all except for the bed, which was a bit too stiff for his taste, she said. "He even offered to pay some of the bills," Robertson said, chuckling at the absurdity of the episode. Robinson returned to her apartment on Oct. 27 and found no one inside and nothing missing. Her uninvited guest had even vacuumed and neatly hung some of his clothes in her closet. So she left a note in case the intruder returned: "Leave or I'm calling the police." Robertson visited her apartment a month later, this time accompanied by a 4th District police officer. As they approached her complex, she was floored when the officer recognized the place and told her he'd been to her apartment on several occasions to quiet rowdy parties. Then they opened the door. "Everything was gone," Robertson said. "There were beer bottles and trash everywhere. They took all my furniture, my couch, the bed. They even took stuff you wouldn't think anyone would take, like the comforter set off my bed, bathroom stuff, pots and pans." Those caught face harsh penalties. The crime of looting carries up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, compared to 12 years and $2,000 for burglary. The criminal statutes for both crimes are identical except that looting takes place when "normal security of property is not present by virtue to a hurricane, flood, fire, act of God or force majeure of any kind." St. Bernard's looting arrests have included an out-of-state Red Cross volunteer and, in another case, four men hired to clean a flooded bank who tried to make it out of the parish with more than $2,000 in wrinkled bills and coins they found inside the bank, authorities said. More recently, Roussel said New Orleans officers caught a well-known local burglar stealing a bottle of booze from a house, but the bust led them to a mother lode of stolen goods. "He had a mini-Wal-Mart at his house," Roussel said. "He had everything from a lint roller to major electronics. It was easily $10,000 to $12,000 worth of merchandise." A partner named Glock All the stealing has many people who have returned to the area on edge, and some have armed themselves in case they catch looters in the act. Eastern New Orleans resident Gerald Peters caught up recently with a neighbor and friend whose home was looted. "They got you, too?" Peters asked, recalling stories of looting around the area that have lit up the grapevine for the past week or so. "I sleep with my Glock next to my bed," Peters said, referring to his semiautomatic pistol. "If I would have seen them around here, they wouldn't have left this block alive." What hit Brenda the hardest wasn't looting, but the wanton destruction of a china set her father, who died when she was a girl, gave her mother. She found the precious pieces stomped into fine shards on her front steps, just days after she'd delicately cleaned each piece. "They just did it with such disregard," she said. "They didn't want it, but they decided to walk all over it." whole story http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/ ... 254530.xml |
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| Author: | 30mike-mike [ 23 Jan 2006, 06:10 ] |
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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Those caught...<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote> Key phrase. The Second Amendment: America's original homeland security. |
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| Author: | Stinger [ 23 Jan 2006, 08:24 ] |
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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> Robinson returned to her apartment on Oct. 27 and found no one inside and nothing missing. Her uninvited guest had even vacuumed and neatly hung some of his clothes in her closet. So she left a note in case the intruder returned: "Leave or I'm calling the police." Robertson visited her apartment a month later, this time accompanied by a 4th District police officer. As they approached her complex, she was floored when the officer recognized the place and told her he'd been to her apartment on several occasions to quiet rowdy parties. Then they opened the door. "Everything was gone," Robertson said. "There were beer bottles and trash everywhere. They took all my furniture, my couch, the bed. They even took stuff you wouldn't think anyone would take, like the comforter set off my bed, bathroom stuff, pots and pans." <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote> I have to wonder... what the hell did she think would happen leaving a note like that... I hate oxygen theives... "One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up" <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/jollyrogerspaintball/cup.gif" border=0> |
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