Looting Breaks Out in Wake of Deadly Quake

[Pirate Smile]

Looting Breaks Out in Wake of Deadly Quake By SADAQAT JAN, Associated Press Writer
14 minutes ago

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - Shopkeepers clashed with looters Monday, and hungry families huddled under tents while waiting for relief supplies after Pakistan's worst earthquake razed entire villages and buried roads in rubble. Death toll estimates ranged from 20,000 to 30,000.

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The magnitude of this disaster is utterly overwhelming," Crocker said. "We have under way the beginning of a very major relief effort."

The United Nations said more than 2.5 million people were left homeless by Saturday's 7.6-magnitude quake, and doctors warned of an outbreak of disease unless more relief arrives soon.

With landslides blocking roads to many of the worst-hit areas, Pakistan's army was flying food, water and medicine into the disaster zone. International relief efforts cranked into action, and an American plane full of relief supplies landed at an air base near Pakistan's capital on Monday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051010/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_quake

The photo which won't show up here has the following caption AP Photo: Desperate people loot food items and other stuff from collapsed shops, Monday, Oct 10, 2005...

Wow, I'm shocked - starving, dehydrated people will take food and water in order to live.

[NorthernSpy]

1. even the most law-abiding people will do whatever it takes...

... to survive.

Fact of life: under catastrophic conditions, people will salvage pretty much anything that they think might make their lives better and raise their chances of making it through the situation.

This sort of thing always happens. When floods ravaged some little mountain villages in Switzerland this summer, troops were posted in the area to curtail looting. Underneath their diversity of laws and customs, humans are all pretty similar when disaster strikes.


(edit: fixed typo)

[KittyWampus]

3. You Know, EvenThe Freeper-Type Women On The Craft Forum I Frequent

could make the distinction between taking food, medicine and necessary items and just taking advantage of disorder. They didn't consider taking stuff for survival as looting, either.

As far as the few reptiles that always seem to emerge, we are all savages underneath. It's just a question of managing to sublimate that capacity... or not.

[Bethany Rockafella]

2. I thought only black people looted?

:sarcasm:

[Massachusetts]

4. "The magnitude of this disaster is utterly overwhelming"

Quakes, Hurricanes, Floods, Deadlt Flu...Mama Nature runs the show, always has ALWAYS will!

[Hotep]

5. Any white folks over there "finding" food?

[YouthInAsia]

6. OH MY GOD.....there are NEGROES in PAkistan!!!!!

[Jim__]

7. More like, "The struggle for survival breaks out" - n/t

[Algorem]

8. Bush cronies swarming all over there TOO?!