Three FEMA contractors arrested for looting in Plaquemines Parish

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

"Yer doin' a HECK of a job, Brownie..."

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html#078200

Three FEMA contractors arrested for looting in Plaquemines Parish

Three Texas truck drivers under contract with the federal government to bring in storm relief supplies for Plaquemines Parish have been arrested for allegedly looting toys, dolls, women’s lingerie and other merchandise from a Belle Chasse Family Dollar store, authorities said.

Booked late Wednesday night with one count each of looting were Gerald W. Thomas, 47, of Tyler, Texas; Thomas Sherman, 39, also of Tyler; and Lasharon Lemons, 36, of Dallas, said Major John Marie with the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Marie said that since the relief effort began, drivers for the Federal Emergency Management Agency had been allowed to take drinks, personal grooming supplies and other small items from the Family Dollar store at 7902 Louisiana 23.

But he said the three suspects went much further, loading the cabs of their trucks with toys such as Barbie dolls, kitchen appliances, telephones, answering machines, waste paper baskets and other goods. “When we arrested them, they had enough stolen stuff to fill five grocery carts full of property,” Marie said.

[whistle]

1. Looting the Belle Chasse Family Dollar store......

....that's pretty low isn't it.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. 5 grocery carts filled with swag...

Wherever there's a disaster, you will find someone with the intention to profit from it.

Right, Mr. Cheney?

[xray s]

2. women’s lingerie?

ohhhhkayyyy

[drowninginjello]

7. No more lonely nights

You know...

Get's mighty lonely at night...Yup

[tridim]

3. FEMA contractors are "allowed to take"

White survivors "find"
Black survivors "loot"

The media has spoken.

[drowninginjello]

5. Been caught stealing...

FEMA? Stealing? Committing crimes against humanity?

But Brownie claims no such things occur, so this can't possibly have happened...

Next thing you know, Bush will be pinning medals on their chests...

[Verve]

6. Stealing Barbie dolls and wastepaper baskets??????

Such essential supplies in the midst of cleaning up the biggest disaster in US history. What idiots!!!:spank:

[drowninginjello]

8. Reason for the Barbie dolls and wastepaper baskets

Something to snuggle up to at night around the campfire...wastebasket baskets are their helmets to fight off the evil liberal hordes. :crazy:

[Drum]

11. ROLFMAO! Thanks for that! nt

[Divernan]

9. NOT FEMA employees; was the private contractor employer Haliburton???

WAKE UP PEOPLE! THINK! Do you for one moment believe that the federal government went out and hired these three guys individually? Of course not! Bush/Albaugh/Chernoff/Brown have done their best to PRIVATIZE FEMA. In fact, FEMA must bid against private contractors to do many of the jobs that only FEMA did under Witt/Clinton.

Now keep thinking! What company was the private contractor / employer of these three pathetic men? WHY wasn't it identified in the article? Inquiring minds want to know!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

10. They said "three FEMA contractors," with no specifics...

...so who knows. It's like the story of the "wholesome and nutritious" meals Halliburton feeds to the soldiers in Iraq. The soldiers, it turns out, have a very different opinion (as in "rotten, spoiled garbage")...

[KT2000]

12. we need to see

just who does have the FEMA contracts in NO.
They also need to reveal all of the sub-contractors.

[ladylibertee]

13. ROFLMAO

NOW THAT THERES FUNNY. I DON'T CARE WHO YA ARE. HAHAHAHAHAHA