Aehso’s Output

Via Boing Boing, the Survival of New Orleans (flash-in-the-pan) blog is worth a look, if just to read things like :

They broke into Winn Dixie Monday Night. Do they steal food? No. Cigarettes and liquor. Store was a mess. All the meats were going to waste so the districts went over there to salvage food for officers. Many cops have been eating MREs.

The Iberville Housing Projects got pissed off because the police started to “shop” after they kicked out looters. Then they started shooting at cops. When the cops left, the looters looted everything. There’s probably not a grocery left in this city.

Over 30 officers have quit over the last 3 days. Out of 160 officers in his district maybe 55 or 60 are working. He hasn’t seen several since Sunday. HQ is closed, evacuated. No phones to contact them.

Not sure how much of this is true, only time will tell.

Also, it’s interesting how looting and finding can get mixed up by the news wires (does skin color qualify actions?). Under the circumstances, when law and order has broken down to the extent it appears to have, some of it is basic survuval but you can be sure a lot of it is looting.

Facinating reading nonetheless.

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