apparently, the looting is really bad now. a police officer was shot in the head in NO (he is expected to recover) and a whole gun collection was stolen at Walmart.
You'd never make it. I'd rip your spine out before you got half a step. Those little legs wouldn't be much good without one of those.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Aug 31, 2005 5:28:32 am PDT #2970 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Calli - Aug 31, 2005 5:32:23 am PDT #2971 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
a whole gun collection was stolen at Walmart.
Yeah, that's where it gets circular.
Why did you steal the guns?
Well, there were all these looters, and I had to protect myself. You know. By looting.
Actually, I'd probably do the same if I had water/food/meds and wanted to be sure I kept them until the next morning.
Fred Pete - Aug 31, 2005 5:32:43 am PDT #2972 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
"We are looking at 12 to 16 weeks before people can come in," Mayor Ray Nagin said on ABC's "Good Morning America....
Three months?????? Egad.
Tulane University is closed indefinitely.
brenda m - Aug 31, 2005 5:33:10 am PDT #2973 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, I get the feeling we're moving from Superdome to Thunderdome. Heartbreaking, and scary as hell.
dw - Aug 31, 2005 5:34:14 am PDT #2974 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
a police officer was shot in the head in NO (he is expected to recover)
He was shot last night. The story I heard was that the police arrested four people and had shot one of them during the gunfight that led to the officer's wounding (he was shot in the head).
The National Guard is apparently still having trouble getting people on the street. From the way it sounds it's all a logistics nightmare: No communications grid and poor communications between the various parties involved.
Trudy Booth - Aug 31, 2005 5:34:41 am PDT #2975 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
So...25K of the people in the Superdome are being moved via bus convoy to the Houston Astrodome.
Now we start the clock until how long this makes it into some campaign for a municipally funded stadium.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 31, 2005 5:34:56 am PDT #2976 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So, about two or three hundred people dressed up as zombies and invaded an upscale shopping mall in Vancouver
Also, a group of zombies recently attended the American Idol auditions in Austin
So zombies are the new flash mob?
tommyrot - Aug 31, 2005 5:36:20 am PDT #2977 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gah. Have a half million (or more) people ever been displaced in America before? Maybe in the Civil War....
Oh, and those internment camps in WWII.
brenda m - Aug 31, 2005 5:37:09 am PDT #2978 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
There was a zombie flashmob (one of the first, I think) that stormed a medieval battle reenactment on Mont Royal in Montreal. Hysterical. The reenactors seemed to have a great time playing along.
tommyrot - Aug 31, 2005 5:39:21 am PDT #2979 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So zombies are the new flash mob?
Yeah. The Vancouver thing was considered a flash mob.
Also,
Muntean's group is part of a "zombie renaissance" that, according to a Los Angeles Daily News article, is sweeping the nation.
...
Later that month, a man named David, who would like to keep his last name confidential, organized a zombie mob in San Francisco. The actors shuffled across the city on July 24, ending up in front of an Apple store, where they smeared fluids on the windows and looked for brains.
They didn't find any.
David says he supports all groups of zombies.
"We stand beside them in their quest for more brains," he said of the Austin event. "If they find any brains there, they should let us know."