Shots fired at helicopter

[LeftyFingerPop]

Just heard on CNN that rescue effort at Superdome is being severely hampered because of shots being fired at Chinook recue helicopter.

This situation is FUBAR beyond imagination.

[salin]

1. someone made the comparison to the fall of bagdad

when there was looting, thefts, kidnapping, and all sorts of mayhem. These descriptions sadly seem to match that comparison - I can barely begin to imagine what it must be like on the ground. Desperate people mixed with some predatory folks who are also desperate. Frightening mix.

[Lerkfish]

2. well, they COULD be trying to signal the helicopter...desperate

people do desperate things. If I saw a rescue helicopter flying over me again and again and I was not being picked up....

[tocqueville]

3. what's next ? IEDs ?

[Roland99]

4. Local news has a reporter in Kenner and said the same thing

[Daphne08]

5. I heard the same thing.

The lawlessness is really getting out of hand.

[smurfygirl]

6. well last night a soldier was shot in the upper leg

but the news has made no metion of it. We heard it on the scanners though so we know it happened.