Thou shall kill Looters!

[alien space marine]

Isnt america great or what!

Although nothing beats baghdad!

[Weltall]

That's such a terrible thing... the whole scenario is so tragic.

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[Darunia]

Good thing I live in the blissful utopia of Goron City, where we have no problems worse than deciding how many kisses to give our children every night before bed. :)

[alien space marine]

Glad I dont live in the flushed toilet that is New Orleans!

I say evacuate the law obeiding citizens leave the Gangtas behind and break the dams open just like "noah flood":evil: except with good old Sam Clemens steam ship instead!

[Great Rumbler]

I'm glad I live 600 feet above sea level.

[N-Man]

CNN:

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans' Charity Hospital halted efforts to evacuate its patients after it came under sniper fire, according to Dr. Tyler Curiel, who witnessed the incidents.

The attack came as New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued "a desperate SOS" for the thousands of people stranded in and around the city's convention center with no food or water and fading hope.

Curiel and his National Guard escorts, were returning to the hospital after dropping off patients at nearby Tulane Medical Center, when someone started shooting at their convoy of Humvees. (Watch the video report on the sniper's attack -- 1:06)

"We were coming in from a parking deck at Tulane Medical Center, and a guy in a white shirt started firing at us," Curiel said. "The National Guard (troops), wearing flak jackets, tried to get a bead on this guy. "

The incident happened around 11:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. ET). About an hour later, another gunman opened fire at the back of Charity Hospital.

"We got back to Charity Hospital with with food from Tulane and we said, 'OK the snipers are behind us, let's move on,'" Curiel said. "We started loading patients (for transport) and 20 minutes later, shots rang out."

The National Guard soldiers told staff to get away from the windows, and evacuations were halted.

Charity Hospital has no electricity, no water and the only food available is couple of cans of vegetables and graham crackers.

Evacuations by boat were halted after armed looters threatened medics, and overturned one of their boats.

The sniper attacks were the latest incidents of violence that have disrupted efforts to help people in the flooded city.

It's fucking Mad Max down there. What the fuck.

[Great Rumbler]

It's more like Baghdad than anything else...

[N-Man]

I don't know, Baghdad seems pretty quaint and peaceful in comparison.

[A Black Falcon]

I know New Orleans was already a pretty lawless place in the poorer areas, but this is awful... they really need to get a lot of troops in there to stop this stuff, and soon...

[Geno]

Is it just me, or do things suddenly suck these days?

Well, I'm glad I don't live closer to the coast. At one time, I dreamt of retiring to a beach cottage, but I changed my mind sometime before the gulf coast hurricanes of 2004 and 2005.

Whatever the case, I am thankful that I do not live any closer to the coast than I already do and that the last two hurricanes bypassed my area, especially this last one. Still, it is highly unfortunate that so many lives were lost in the nation's biggest crisis since 9/11.