Looting .. lock and load

• salto

  

  Bio-Hazzzzard;1871913 wrote:Looters don't go to the poor peoples section of town during a natural disaster. The wealthy are prime targets in these types of circumstances, don't understand your logic here.

  Interesting. Seems all of the media coverage shows looters breaking into stores, coming out with boxes of shoes and electronics. I'll have to search youtube for all of the home invasions of looters in flooded areas. Of course, maybe many of the home owners in those flooded areas were holding guns and not video cameras.....
• Bio-Hazzzzard

  

  salto;1871949 wrote:Interesting. Seems all of the media coverage shows looters breaking into stores, coming out with boxes of shoes and electronics.

  I would have to assume that most retailers have cameras and most homeowners do not. Common sense would explain why the media is reporting business loots and not residential. Reporting something that has no evidence to back them up will never reach headlines.
• O-Trap

  

  salto;1871903 wrote:If you live in a place where you're being looted, may want to consider moving. Sounds like a pretty shitty neighborhood.

  Now that's the right attitude. That's like saying, "If you don't like the ___________ in the US, you might want to consider moving to Canada/Luxembourg/Sweden/etc." There are reasons some people don't move beyond apathy.
  

  Bio-Hazzzzard;1871913 wrote:Looters don't go to the poor peoples section of town during a natural disaster. The wealthy are prime targets in these types of circumstances, don't understand your logic here.

  Eh, I dunno. Theft WITHOUT natural disasters happens pretty regularly in poor neighborhoods. Wouldn't be a stretch to think it would increase in a natural disaster.
  
  Of course, logic dictates that there is better quality merch in more affluent neighborhoods, and more of it. But there are also more security measures. Like Vegas, the more conservative bets have better odds of success.
• salto

  

  Bio-Hazzzzard;1872019 wrote: Reporting something that has no evidence to back them up will never reach headlines.

  Tell that to Hannity.