# Worthless shithead New Orleans looters. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 31, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379 "2005-08-31T02:46:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/1 "2005-08-31T02:46:41Z")
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/30/AR2005083000848.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/30/AR2005083000848.html) > **[Google News](https://news.google.com/search?q=%2Blooting%2B%2B%22New%2BOrleans%22&hl=en-US&lr&safe=off&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr&gl=US&ceid=US:en)** > > Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News. \*\*You ignorant ass, ghetto motherfuckers. \*\* Nothing like a massive human tragedy to bring out the best in people who are almost too stupid to breath. Steal some shit for me too while you’re at it. And bring it back to your government subsidized apartment. “We po’. We ain’t got nothin.” Hmm. Wonder why? Maybe your lack of judgement and self restraint contributed a tiny bit to your personal problems? Hmm? Maybe? The best part of it is that they’ve got the spectacle in all its sordid glory captured on camera. No shame in your game. You’d have to look the word “shame” up in the dictionary. If you could read. Dumb motherfuckers. \*\*Raggedy ass, chicken shit, lying motherfuckers. \*\* And a special “Fuck you!” to my man who told the Post reporter that this was “_everybody’s store_”. Shithead. Good luck getting businesses to come back to that area. Good luck finding jobs. I’m sure the video footage will do wonders to get people to invest in urban America. And if Georgie boy wasn’t playing war in the fucking oil patch half a world away, we’d have a lot more National Guardsmen to check you, since you can’t check yourselves. I hope they shoot to kill. I’d buy the fucking bullets. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/2 "2005-08-31T02:49:53Z")
Nothing against your rant, of course, but this woman, > [@](#): > > Denise Bollinger, a tourist from Philadelphia, stood outside and snapped pictures in amazement. > > “It’s downtown Baghdad,” the housewife said. “It’s insane. I’ve wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not.” is a complete moron. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/3 "2005-08-31T02:53:54Z")
Ms Bollinger’s a fucking cow. But what d’ya expect. She’s a fucking tourist. From **Philadelphia.** Well, goddamn, shitheads. At least you gave Ms Bollinger some local **color.** ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/4 "2005-08-31T03:06:15Z")
What would downtown Baghdad look like if it was completely flooded by the Tigris and the Euphrates? ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/5 "2005-08-31T03:07:50Z")
I don’t know about anyone else, but I just may _visit_ the next city due to be hit by a catastrophic hurricane! I’d like to upgrade the home-theater system, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/6 "2005-08-31T03:10:23Z")
No kidding. Ride out the 170 mph winds just so you can get first dibs … at _WalMart???_ What’s wrong with these people? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/7 "2005-08-31T03:23:17Z")
Slightly off topic, but one guy really cheesed me off. He was complaining on camera about how “we ain’t gettin’ no help here, nuthin’!” Well, duh, services are kind of overwhelmed right now, jackass. And maybe if you had left when you could, you wouldn’t have to be whining about how nobody _cares_! ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/8 "2005-08-31T03:37:55Z")
I imagine most of the poor people stayed because they didn’t have the means to leave. AFAIK, the city was not providing free transportation. Should they just let all that food rot, while they go hungry? ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/9 "2005-08-31T03:46:57Z")
> [@hillbilly queen](#): > > I imagine most of the poor people stayed because they didn’t have the means to leave. AFAIK, the city was not providing free transportation. Should they just let all that food rot, while they go hungry? Huh? Mayor Nagin basically said that, although he doesn’t condone any manner of looting, police aren’t going to do anything about people leaving Winn Dixies with milk and diapers. This pit is clearly dedicated to those stealing jeans, guns, jewelry, etc… ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/10 "2005-08-31T03:58:41Z")
People are fuckin cashin in. Stocking up. Carrying more shit than they can use, shit they don’t even have a use for. Hunger may be an issue in a minority of the cases. But you can’t eat blue jeans. Or new shoes. Or DVD players. Shit. The starving and desperate excepted, what a busted up barrel of dirty, low-down, ass-up, thievin’ fools. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/11 "2005-08-31T04:04:55Z")
And what’s most useless about the looting is where are they going to put this stuff? In their apartments that will be flooded out by tomorrow? Most of it is going to just get ruined/washed away all over again. Worthless shitheads indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/12 "2005-08-31T04:05:08Z")
> [@hillbilly queen](#): > > Should they just let all that food rot, while they go hungry? Gosh, and should they just let all that jewelry rot, while it’s there for the grabbin? A big hearty “fuck you” from me to the guy who says, “it’s an opportunity to get back at society” in one of those articles. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/13 "2005-08-31T04:14:05Z")
Huh? yourself. I was refering to the reason why they probably stayed. I don’t approve of the looting of other merchandise, but it’s not hurting anyone. It’s just something that happens when there’s a disaster. The store owners are covered by insurance, and since their buildings are sitting in 10’ of water for who knows how long, they’ll have less to clean up. As far as the looters being punished, just wait a couple of days, when they realize that wading around in filthy, shit filled water, just to get a free T.V., may not have been a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/14 "2005-08-31T04:21:24Z")
No. It’s not something that just happens. There are plenty of places in the world, and even in the States, where “natural disaster” does not equal “license to steal”. Fuck that. And fuck those people who make a terrible situation even worse. Insurance won’t cover everything. A lot of those businesses won’t come back. “A chance to get back at society”? So, asshole (the guy in the story, not anyone on the board), is society responsible for your bad fucking choices? Feel free to lie in the bed that you shit all over, 'cause nobody’s gonna do your laundry for free. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/15 "2005-08-31T04:33:59Z")
I really don’t know what the situation is like there. Are there people operating stores? Can people buy food if they want to, or is looting the only option for obtaining food? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/16 "2005-08-31T04:37:13Z")
There are no stores open. Food supplies were provided for evacuation centers, including the Superdome, but all the people who didn’t go to a center are now finding themselves with no food and no way to get it. So they’re taking it. Unfortunately, they’re also taking anything else that’s not nailed down. Which is pretty much everything. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/17 "2005-08-31T04:39:10Z")
> [@](#): > > just wait a couple of days, when they realize that wading around in filthy, shit filled water, just to get a free T.V., may not have been a good idea. They’ll turn up at local emergency rooms, demanding treatment, putting even more strain already overtaxed emergency medical services. How many dumbshits who cut themselves on glass breaking into store windows will the local docs have to stitch up? Fuck. An iron bars will become an essential feature of even more storefronts. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/18 "2005-08-31T04:39:21Z")
I didn’t say they had a right to it, or a “license to steal”. But, YES it is something that happens. It doesn’t even have to be a disaster. It happens during riots and power outages. > [@](#): > > Insurance won’t cover everything. A lot of those businesses won’t come back. Yes, but that merchandise was already lost. Even the jewelry, that probably isn’t damaged by the conditions. The store owners can not sell it as new merchandise. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/19 "2005-08-31T04:49:45Z")
> [@hillbilly queen](#): > > I didn’t say they had a right to it, or a “license to steal”. But, YES it is something that happens. It doesn’t even have to be a disaster. It happens during riots and power outages. Of all the stupid shit I’ve heard on this forum today and Baton Rouge’s miserable news coverage (just moved in, no cable), this is by far the worst. It’s like commenting on a police officer that was murdered today by a looter and rationalizing it with “YES, it is something that happens during riots and murders and fights and whenever my filthy cunt’s scent becomes too obnoxious for people to remain competent.” ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379/20 "2005-08-31T05:13:28Z")
I just don’t understand why everyone is so shocked by the looting. We may lose one of the most wonderful cities in the world. Let the idiots have their useless T.V.s > [@](#): > > It’s like commenting on a police officer that was murdered today by a looter and rationalizing it with “YES, it is something that happens during riots and murders and fights and whenever my filthy cunt’s scent becomes too obnoxious for people to remain competent.” No, it’s not like that at all. Please, do not accuse me of saying something, that I did not say. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worthless-shithead-new-orleans-looters/319379.md?page=2)