I was watching the news just abit ago

[DunNa]

Appearently they are now saying that alot of the horrible stuff that happened in New Orleans are like urban legends that just exploded. Like the actually death records from the super dome were 4 total (1 murder, 2 natrual [heart attacks for both iirc], and 1 suicide). They were also saying stuff like alot of the shootings at aidworkers weren't shootings but aid workers being parinoid as hell and just thinking some loud crack was a gun shot or something.

To me this actually makes alot more sense than an entire city just going into complete chaos and doing really stupid things like shooting at all these aid workers.

[phide]

Who's saying this?

[spartan]

I read a bit on this as well.

From searching Google News:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nationworld/story/5210130p-4734680c.html
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/09/28/Columns/Media_outlets_exagger.shtml

And one that goes against it:

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1469712.htm

[FaKToR]

I heard there were ten deaths at the dome (no murders) and at least two reported rapes.

[BlindSite]

You'd think that in that situation there wouldn't be rapes or murders. I guess from a coldly objective standpoint it is interesting that predators would take it as an opportunity, somewhat sickening.

[DunNa]

Who said the people were predators and not just having some wierd ass stress disorder?? (damn I should be a lawyer :rolleyes: )

Honestly I just think its all screwed up down there but its interesting to see major news broadcasters coming out and saying they were completely wrong and then going aginst that and then switching back its kinda like watching Kerry do an interview but 20x better.

[Makai Goblin]

It might take decades for the truth to come out of that mess.

Just goes to show to take everything you hear, even "facts" with a grain of salt without a heafty amount of evidence.

[Daywalker]

eh, i still think there was stuff going on, I don't know if the numbers are that low, but they probably aren't as high as initially reported.

[Lee]

with the ridiculous mass chaos that would have been happening, you cant expect the numbers to be perfectly accurate, maybe not even slightly close to accurate at all.

[Lord Kelvin]

An example of how they got things wrong:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051004/ap_on_re_us/new_orleans

As it turns out, the actual death toll was really less than 10% of what officials were expecting. This kind of stuff happens all the time; when that earthquake happened in California back in the early 1900s (IIRC at least) reports ranged from San Francisco and New York being completely destroyed (how they managed to get New York into this I don't know) to figures dictating that the costs that would total from this would be at least $100 billion.

[s_qwert63]

Appearently they are now saying that alot of the horrible stuff that happened in New Orleans are like urban legends that just exploded. Like the actually death records from the super dome were 4 total (1 murder, 2 natrual [heart attacks for both iirc], and 1 suicide). They were also saying stuff like alot of the shootings at aidworkers weren't shootings but aid workers being parinoid as hell and just thinking some loud crack was a gun shot or something.

To me this actually makes alot more sense than an entire city just going into complete chaos and doing really stupid things like shooting at all these aid workers.


But still smells like comeplete bullshit.

What do you think would happen to a city which is flooded, no electricity, no food, no running water? People go insane!

[Lord Kelvin]

But still smells like comeplete bullshit.

What do you think would happen to a city which is flooded, no electricity, no food, no running water? People go insane!
Yes, but still not insane enough to shoot at the people trying to help you, as was the case with the stories about the aid workers getting shot at by gunmen. Don't know how many of those are true, but I do remember reading a CNN article about how police killed 5-8 gunmen shooting at engineers on their way to fix one of the barges or something.

[SWATJester_os]

I have first-hand oral accounts of national guardsmen taking fire, in one case (news reported it), being wounded. FFS.....a helicopter was shot down by ground fire, and the USS Bataan had to ground their air power off shore because of too much ground fire.