Desperate drug addicts in a disaster. A lot of the looting of "stuff"

[bribri16]

is being done by desperate and panicked addicts of all stripes. If most people can't get food and other necessities for survival what do you thing the drug addicts and aloholics are doing? And this would include addicts of all types, including prescription drug addicts, meth addicts, cocaine, crack, heroin, and alcoholics. While many people will consider these people to be low-lifes rather than people with big problems, they are included among those left in LA, MS, and AL disaster areas. They are going to make life even more miserable for some. I would bet anything that the policeman was shot by a looting addict. Some thought needs to be given to what to do about these people. It's all so tragic. Now there are prisoners holding hostages and trying to escape. I say get as many people out as can be gotten out even if it means dropping them off along unaffected highways in other states and calling on the good-will of fellow citizens to pick them up and give them transportation to relatives in other states or to shelters in other states.

[goodboy]

1. or they could just loot a pharmacy...(nt)

[wiley]

2. This is WAY bigger than a street level issue.

Whether it is the Percocet or Vicodin type, benzodiapenes like Xanax or Restoril or Atavin, or any medication for HIV or diabetes or cancer, heroin, crack, crystal meth it is virtually impossible for anyway to get anything that they didn't already have. It's another example of "starving the beast" instead of building a people responsive health care system results in huge problems like this. How many people wading in the water have been vaccinated against hepatitis A or B? I guess the war on drugs that the US has been waging for decades is going as well as Iraq.

[AutumnMist]

3. My Father In Law

who is a very conservative christian said to me about the looting (today in fact). What should these people do when they are stranded with no food and no diapers? Where should they go to get help before FEMA finds them? These people have to live, they have to eat. They are doing the best they can while people who they care about have perished around them. Not all people who loot are crooks. He is a great man and I love him to death. So what would you do in that situation? Would you take what you needed and call it even? Would you take what you needed and then go back and pay for what you took? Would you thank the store owner for the provisions that you desperately needed? I pondered that today after talking to my father in law. This isn't a flame question honestly. Just an honest line of thought.

[bribri16]

4. Many of us here feel as your father-in-law.

They should take whatever they can find to survive.

[AutumnMist]

5. So Do We.........

my best thoughts are sent your way.

[Yupster]

6. You should take what you need to survive, and

later pay him for what you took and thank him for having his store there to help you when no one else was there. Off er your help to him as he was a help to you.

Things you would certainly not do would include stealing things that are not necessary like video games or jewelry, or gratuitously destroying his property by breaking windows or other things

[AutumnMist]

7. I Agree :)

Absolutely.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. Nightline reports prisoners holding hostages RUMOR ONLY - not true

Although they said they understood how it was perfectly believable, given how things are going.

[fishnfla]

9. Whoa! Too stoned to know a hurricane's coming!

Puts a whole new meaning to tripping.

The national guard needs to be packing 8-balls and everclear.