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| N.O. Police Kill 5 Shooting At Repair Crews |
| 2005-09-04 |
| good shooting and about F*&king time. Give these gents a medal instead of an investigation. Clarifies earlier reports the contractors were killed Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said. Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six. Fourteen contractors were traveling across the Danziger Bridge under police escort when they came under fire, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers. They were on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to help plug the breach in the 17th Street Canal, Hall said. None of the contractors was killed, Hall said. The bridge spans a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River. No other details were immediately available. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #13 Posters #4, 10, and 12. I agree too...especially given the recent chemical plant explosion, oil storage fire, dock fire, major business fires... |
| Posted by: jawa 2005-09-04 23:59 |
| #12 # 4 and # 10, a dynamic that I agree with as well. Scary stuff |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-09-04 23:49 |
| #11 logic? Overriding strategy? WTF are you people thinking? This is street trash waiting to be recycled |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-04 23:46 |
| #10 I'm with #4-- there's something about this story that doesn't seem right to me. And what about the related events-- why are hoodlums shooting at the National Guard? If there is a rational basis to what this particular gang was up to, doesn't it logically appear to be to provoke a huge event? And who wants to do that? Not some two-bit street gang. |
| Posted by: James 2005-09-04 23:42 |
| #9 just got home and read this. How outrageous. I also heard that some folks don't want to leave their homes. What crazyness. This just reinforces the caliber of the ones left behind. Along with those many TV's and jewelry some folks have, is probably illegal guns and drugs that they want to get out of there too. How sad for the few honest ones that simply stayed for all the wrong reasons.I remember visiting friends of our girlfriends brother down by Houma, years ago, where we drove through many roads without street signs, and thinking how scary it was that they had little kids running around with loaded pistols sitting out on the coffee table. A mind set that I couldn't relate to for sure. This is almost a different country in how they live in NO. They had never seen studded snow tires, nor did they know what they were, we had gone down during spring break. Sigh.... |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-09-04 23:00 |
| #8 I discussed this with the Son in law. He concured, these could be home grown Hardboys who want to make the disaster worse. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-09-04 21:48 |
| #7 I hazard a guess that the frequency of incidents invloving shooting at repair crews will rapidly decline - it's hard to enjoy your looted treasures when you're worm food. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2005-09-04 21:44 |
| #6 The looters have a little problem. The good guys are evacuating the city house by house. It will be difficult for them to justify why they, young strong males, are still there and why they have five big screen tv's apiece and shopping bags full of jewelry. If they were dumb enough to loot, they are dumb enough to shoot and we, as a society, will be better off with them out of the gene pool. |
| Posted by: RWV 2005-09-04 20:52 |
| #5 graduates of Angola prolly |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-04 20:38 |
| #4 This is probably paranoid and all, but if you had Al Queda cells in the US I can see them going into the danger zone to cause havoc like shooting at repair people. Why would citizens, even scumbag looters, shoot at repair engineers? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2005-09-04 20:19 |
| #3 ya figure anybody bold enough to be showing a weapon let alone shooting is a hardened criminal, and has probably done stuff that deserves life in prison or the death penalty. While the shooting in this case seems righteous, based on what we've seen over the last several days, I would not depend on the NOPD to only shoot only under those conditions. I can easily imagine that now that they have the green light to shoot, it will end badly. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-09-04 20:16 |
| #2 ya figure anybody bold enough to be showing a weapon let alone shooting is a hardened criminal, and has probably done stuff that deserves life in prison or the death penalty. At least they are obliging enogh to spare the state of Louisiana the $1 million or so it takes to fight the court system and ensure they get their just reward. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2005-09-04 20:06 |
| #1 Agreed Frank. 'Bout time! |
| Posted by: Ptah 2005-09-04 19:59 |