Many of those people don't have insurance... Perhaps not even cars... Many of these people are dirt poor... The people affected their are not going to cancun on vacation you know... You are the moron sir, why don't you just keep your mouth shut...
:nod: :nod:XRpredator said:If you are offered help and refuse it, you'd by GOD better not be asking someone to risk their neck to save yours later when the doodoo really hits the fan.
With the past history allegations of the New Orleans police dept I would not be surprised but I also would be surprised if there is such a thing as 'Off duty' right now. With the massive callup occurring right now shifts are probably work til you drop.rickyd said::nod: :nod:
Off topic, but any truth too rumors that some off duty police officers have been caught looting??
Patman said:From MSNBC:
Resident Chris Robinson said via cellphone from his home east of downtown that “I’m not doing too good right now.”
“The water’s rising pretty fast,” he added. “I got a hammer and an ax and a crowbar, but I’m holding off on breaking through the roof until the last minute. Tell someone to come get me please. I want to live.”
The way I see it this moron had PLENTY of time to save himself. Let Darwin take over from here and keep those that might have to try and save his sorry butt be safe. Mr Chris Robinson, you are without a doubt a complete MORON perhaps you will become in reality what you certianly are in my eyes, a floating turd. :|
Patman said:It's pretty obvious that some get the intent of my post and others do not no matter how specific I try to be. I gave my thoughts on a specific individual in a specific situation based only upon the specific information that was reported. I fabricated no bleeding heart story that he was poor and un-insured, staying to protect his 14 kids and 97 year old grand parents who all lived in a 2 bedroom shack made from old concrete forms and broken bricks pried from the street. I didn't universally apply my view to everyone that was within 400 miles of the eye of the storm, nor to the people that are now dealing with the situation AFTER the pass of the storm. Neither did I make ANY personal attacks against ANY person that posted in this thread. I made no assumptions to the intent of their post nor to their bank account or even what their vacation plan were. Apparently that's not something that's unilaterally applied.
:laugh: Yeah, good thing I'm a commando! ;)Green Horn said:Sure are alot of wadded undergarments in this thread. LOL
Jaybird said:Slightly still on topic...
I was also upset seeing the sideshow that the news media gave us.
The governer of Louisiana told people to evacuate New Orleans. A MANDITORY evacuation, which was obviously well founded.
But what do some do? They stay and hope they will get some sort of award for filming themselves stading at a 40deg angle in the hurricane wind.
A big stinkin' sideshow in the wake of mass destruction and death.
Pat,
I'm with you man.
How dare an idiot ask for others to endanger themselves in order to save his sorry hide. I'm sure that the first responders don't mind, and are glad to do their job. That's the sort of people they are.
But, I can easily sit back and cry foul, just as Pat has. I find him completely legitimate in his analysis of the situation.
As bad as this tragedy was, I feel that each and every person who ignored the warnings and needed assitance, be billed for services rendered.
gwcrim said:The real dumb@ss in this situation is the person or people who thought it a great idea to build a city below the water level. Yeah, right, mankind can hold back mother nature.
Patman said:The judgement was not snap, I thought about it and the longer I did the more upset I became. Obviously the stupid expectation that there should always be somebody to pull another persons butt out of the fire is wider spread than I considered. Also I believe I stated "In my eyes..." Perhaps it was difficult to understand but I was in fact stating my opion so yes I believe my judgement of his being equal to floating fecal matter is quite accurate. I had no intention of trying to convince anybody of my experience needing to be legitimized by some comparison, which perhaps you missed this little tid bit as well, but I don't recall stating my vacation was cut short? Can you point me to this or is theis another fact grasped from the air? The precise fact is that my family and the family we were traveling with stay through the storm in a shelter, we then returned to our trashed accomidations and cleaned them up ourselves, and believe it or not stayed through our original departue date. Does that matter? Only in that we chose to follow the directions given to insure our security. We did not take anything beyond our clothes and medications because believe it or not even though none of our things were insured they were all just things, life itself is more important, both our AND those who were there to assist. So the bottom line is I did assume the individual had some idea that if they are told of a manditory evacuation then maybe it's going to be bad stuff coming their way and all the crap in the world isn't worth dying for. That is something that aparently became obvious when he made the call.
Now about those snap judgements, it seems to be going around doesn't it?
BTW, yes I am a kook! :laugh:
The real dumb@ss in this situation is the person or people who thought it a great idea to build a city below the water level.
Papakeith said:a rocket surgeon?
kinda like a Yogi Bhera-ism
"Metaphors always taste freshest when well mixed" :)Betty Crocker
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