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Old November 5, 2011, 09:57 AM   #5
briandg
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It is entirely possible that I have a skewed perception of what went on. But the facts remain that a great deal of looting occurred, and I'm not sure how to feel about the fact that the media kept it quiet, either. Does the outside world need to see that?

My neighbor, I forget the entire chain of events, wound up in a conversation with a FOAF of some sort. coworker of a relative, I believe. this person went on and on about going car to car looting vehicles in the beaten zone. He excused it with "why not? should it go to waste? Someone else will do it anyway." The man referred to his trip as "work" and he "earned" over $1,000 doing it. My friend said that he couldn't even think of what to say. A coworker was in her home at night in a lightly damaged blackout zone, and her husband chased looters off. The high school was destroyed, but still accessable. Laptops were stolen that very night, and a computer specialist in KC recovered a number of them from a thief who brought them in to have the passwords reset.

OMG, I forgot the absolute worst. How in heck did I do that?

My daughter has psychological problems. she was living in a supervised apartment setting. Much of the building remained intact, but the residents were not allowed to re-enter. The company that managed the building hired

SERVICE MASTER

to pack up and transfer the property. The first people to retrieve their goods noticed problems, and from that time, everyone was required to sort their remaining possessions in the presence of a member of the prgraims management.

Just in my daughters apartment, her litter box contents was bagged, then boxed up and property went on top of it. Her trash can was emptied into a box that contained her property. She is an artist, and a drenched newsprint pad one inch thick and the size of posterboard was wadded up and put in with clothes. (imaginea weeks worth of average newspapers left in an inch deep puddle) Her jewelry box was looted, there was no silver or gold left. It had been dumped loose into a packing boxbox and her box was broken.

The ceiling had collapsed. As we went through her property, we found insulation and drywall fragments in every drawer of her files cabinets and other storage containers, left in there as people had searched them. Her dishes had been dumped loose into a box. Much of her furniture was missing. It needs to be noted that her apartment was on the south side of the building, at the absolute edge of the zone of destruction. North side of the buidlingwas destroyed. south side survived. We have pictures of the rooms from going in before the building management had secured it, and we managed to recover some items before it wsa looted. They had some pictures, and had a solid idea of what sort of damage had occurred (very little.)

The worst thing that happened, one of her neighbors had a small collection of gold and diamond rings. She was there while my daughter was there, when she found out that my daughter's jewelry was looted, she looked for hers. every one of the ring boxes was there, packed away, but empty. Whoever packed her room went through her drawers, opened every box, stole the contents, and tossed the empty box into the box she was packing. I presume that the thief slipped them into a pocket, or maybes onto her hands, under her gloves.

No, the packing labels had no names or initials. the packers covered their activities.

This was done to the people who lived in a psychological facility. Some of the people there were there for PTSD. One of them was an afghan vet with ptsd. Can you guys imagine my anger?

Jhenry, you are from the area? what are your thoughts?

A manhattan 9/11 survivor was in town for it, and he said that the two events were very similar in his expereince.

and yes, mobuck, there is a lot of plain trash living here. Do you remember that at one time, missouri was listed in the FBI UCR as having the biggest problem with meth of all the states, and that McDonald county was the worst county in the state?

I'm going to be a long while getting through this thing.
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