Comments on: Hitting Close to Home http://www.bilherron.com/cryforhelp/clippings/2005/hitting-close-to-home/518/ A maddeningly reasonable take on the world Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:41:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ultra Laser http://www.bilherron.com/cryforhelp/clippings/2005/hitting-close-to-home/518/#comment-1260 Ultra Laser Thu, 01 Sep 2005 01:06:24 +0000 http://www.bilherron.com/cryforhelp/clippings/2005/hitting-close-to-home/518/#comment-1260 "Looters used garbage cans and inflatable mattresses to float away with food, blue jeans, tennis shoes, TV sets — even guns. Outside one pharmacy, thieves commandeered a forklift and used it to push up the storm shutters and break through the glass. The driver of a nursing-home bus surrendered the vehicle to thugs after being threatened. Police said their first priority remained saving lives, and mostly just stood by and watched the looting. On Tuesday, an officer who tried to intervene was shot in the head and critically wounded." “Looters used garbage cans and inflatable mattresses to float away with food, blue jeans, tennis shoes, TV sets — even guns. Outside one pharmacy, thieves commandeered a forklift and used it to push up the storm shutters and break through the glass. The driver of a nursing-home bus surrendered the vehicle to thugs after being threatened.

Police said their first priority remained saving lives, and mostly just stood by and watched the looting. On Tuesday, an officer who tried to intervene was shot in the head and critically wounded.”

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