# Cannibalism "reported" in New Orleans **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 4, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017 "2005-09-04T06:22:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/1 "2005-09-04T06:22:20Z")
[Randall Robinson](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randall-robinson/new-orleans_b_6643.html): > [@](#): > > It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. This is in the Pit because it’s an inflammatory subject. I can’t do justice to this. I think the masters of invective here on the SDMB would be at a loss. “It is reported”??? I suppose it would be racist of me to ask for a cite. Frankly, I give up. I’ll just steal from Monty Python. President Bush: “May I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism in New Orleans. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit, but all are warned that if they wake up in the morning and find toothmarks at all anywhere on their bodies, they’re to tell the authorities immediately so that we can immediately take every measure to hush the whole thing up. And finally, necrophilia is right out.” ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/2 "2005-09-04T06:24:33Z")
I don’t buy it. No cites? No sources? I call bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/3 "2005-09-04T06:47:59Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > I’ll just steal from Monty Python. I’m thinking more of the misunderstood cannibal being interviewed, explaining how he was driven to eat his fellow passengers, and telling the interviewer that he’d have been forced to do the same thing in a similar situation. “But your flight was only delayed for twenty minutes.” The idea that people could be driven to cannibalism in less than a week is utterly ludicrous. Not to minimize the desperation of the situation, of course, but people will generally hold off on eating each other until there’s absolutely no other hope. ---
**Author:** ![Matteo\_Ricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Matteo\_Ricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matteo_Ricci)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/4 "2005-09-04T07:11:25Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > I’m thinking more of the misunderstood cannibal being interviewed, explaining how he was driven to eat his fellow passengers, and telling the interviewer that he’d have been forced to do the same thing in a similar situation. “But your flight was only delayed for twenty minutes.” > > The idea that people could be driven to cannibalism in less than a week is utterly ludicrous. Not to minimize the desperation of the situation, of course, but people will generally hold off on eating each other until there’s absolutely no other hope. I liked this response in the “Comments” section of that link: > [@](#): > > Eating dead people after ONLY 4 days. Just goes to show how spoilt people are. The people in the Andes air crash waited over 30 days. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/5 "2005-09-04T08:15:02Z")
Yeah, but the ones in the Andes _kept_ longer. New Orleans in September, those bodies are going to be past their “best by” date pretty soon. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/6 "2005-09-04T08:20:07Z")
Yeah…in a climate like NO, the people really WILL be spoilt pretty quick. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/7 "2005-09-04T10:04:45Z")
Africian Americans: The Other Dark Meat. Sponsored by American Cardiologist and Cattlemen’s Association. /one ticket please //don’t hurt me ///YAY for insomnia ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/8 "2005-09-04T11:31:42Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Africian Americans: The Other Dark Meat. Hey, he doesn’t specifically claim they’re eating _each other_: maybe they’re finally seizing the chance to gnaw on Whitey. Bite the Power! ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/9 "2005-09-04T11:39:29Z")
How do we know these African-Americans are alive? _Maybe_ the recent glut of zombie movies has finally prophesized the existence of reanimated corpses loosed to prey on men! These zombie cannibals want brains! Beats me why Bush is staying away from New Orleans. He’d be the safest one. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/10 "2005-09-04T13:23:51Z")
Interesting how they felt it necessary to say that it was _ **black** _ hurricane victims doing this. The addition of that one word says quite a lot, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/11 "2005-09-04T13:30:46Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > …maybe they’re finally seizing the chance to gnaw on Whitey. Bite the Power! You owe me a new keyboard! That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages! ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/12 "2005-09-04T13:30:56Z")
The [author](http://www.randallrobinson.com/) is black and has written books including “The Debt - What America Owes To Blacks”, so I think you’d be hard pushed to consider him an anti-black racist. Reading the whole entry, it’s more, “look what extremes our inaction has forced black people into.” Not that I think the story’s _true_, mind you. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/13 "2005-09-04T13:33:26Z")
> [@Lissa](#): > > Interesting how they felt it necessary to say that it was _ **black** _ hurricane victims doing this. The addition of that one word says quite a lot, in my opinion. The “reporter” himself is African American. The wording struck me as odd too, though. > [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Hey, he doesn’t specifically claim they’re eating each other: maybe they’re finally seizing the chance to gnaw on Whitey. Bite the Power! ROFL! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/14 "2005-09-04T13:37:21Z")
Uh oh! **Stephe96** better run for his life! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/15 "2005-09-04T14:27:25Z")
Reminds me of that “Kids In The Hall” sketch where the guy was on trial for resorting to cannabalism because his plane was stuck on the runway for fifteen minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/16 "2005-09-04T14:36:52Z")
To be honest, and to be perfectly serious, I don’t find this unsubstantiated rumor of cannibalism anymore compelling or credible than reports of so called “widespread” rapes, murders, “sniper” attacks, “600 weapons” confiscated at the dome. I don’t care if the author is black. It’s like news standards have completely broken down and we’re ready to believe anything. Few of these reports have first hand eyewitnessed accounts, or attributed sources. It’s rumor repeated. The desperation is real, but the lawlessness is blown completely out of proporation. I feel like Pitting this soon. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/17 "2005-09-04T14:54:52Z")
[Zoe]If they take the city, the’ll rape us to death,eat our flesh, and sew our skin into their clothing. And if we’re very lucky, they’ll do it in that order.[/Zoe] ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/18 "2005-09-04T15:22:51Z")
Last year, first thing in the morning, I was at work, taking the elevator up with about five other people. Suddenly, the elevator stopped. The doors wouldn’t open. We hit the emergency call button. No response. Within five minutes we were joking about which of us would be the first to be eaten by the others. FIVE MINUTES! I’m sure if no one had come to rescue us by lunchtime, we would have resorted to cannibalism. None of us were black, though. Actually, the elevator was restored to normal function before we could settle the argument over whether we should eat the smallest person first because they were least able to resist, or the largest person first so we could last longer before eating another. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/19 "2005-09-04T15:25:32Z")
You know, the funny thing is I was speculating this morning that the influx of survivors might possibly result in some damn good restaurants opening in our area. Those Cajuns know how to cook! Obviously, this wasn’t what I had in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017/20 "2005-09-04T15:35:40Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Uh oh! **Stephe96** better run for his life! Eat me. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibalism-reported-in-new-orleans/320017.md?page=2)