[Leica] Anne Rice

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

 > And WHY was someone shooting at contractors trying to fix the
 > flooding? I gather they paid with their lives but still... I suspect
 > it was drugs at the heart of it - or a complete psychotic break

Adam:

You might be right about drugs... as Mayor Nagin said sometime in the 
last couple of days, the hard core looters were trying to find drugs
"to get the edge of their jones".

Maybe they couldn't find any.

Jim


Adam Bridge wrote:

> Damn, you guys see a different news than I do because I see positive
> reports all over the place. The local reporters on the scene (not the
> national) have had many, and even the national news has had quite a
> variety of stories about people working selflessly for others.
> 
> Now I freely admit that I don't watch FOX or CNN but still, it's not
> an endless set of images about looting. In fact many reports about
> looting start with the need for getting food and water. It's when
> people are looting hospitals, clothing stores, and swiping car-loads
> of computers and TVs that the reporting gets ugly.
> 
> And WHY was someone shooting at contractors trying to fix the
> flooding? I gather they paid with their lives but still... I suspect
> it was drugs at the heart of it - or a complete psychotic break.
> 
> ab
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