Human Rights Watch is usually pretty accurate. That is scary. I'm appalled.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Appalled is the word.
Posted by Miriya (Member # 7822) on :
Good grief! That's just hideous.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Depriving a person of the ability to save his own life carries a tremendous moral burden. If this is true, add me to the appalled list.
Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :
That's just disgusting.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I honestly don't know what to say, but I will hold final judgement until another source reports the story.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
I just really hope this isn't true, or is an exaggeration. Because if it is true, I've just lost a little bit more faith in the human race. And I've lost quite a bit of it already, lately. I can't use to lose too much more.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Such a random thought came to my mind: That must do rotten things to your skin, being in water (and sewage) that long.
And how do you sleep?!
I imagine those responsible for this monstrosity will be seeing the inside of a jail cell....
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote:The women were on the roof of the hotel, calling for help as floodwaters rose. Then a motorboat full of police officers came by. ''Can you help us?'' the women cried. The police officers replied, ''Show us what you've got!'' and motioned for them to lift their T-shirts.
The women said no. The police officers left them there.
I figured that story for an urban legend when one of my students wrote about it in a class I teach. Too crazy to be true, I thought.
But the tale turns out to be a witness account from Ged Scott, a bus driver from suburban Liverpool, England, who, with his wife and son, was on vacation in New Orleans when that city was swamped by Hurricane Katrina. Scott's story has received considerable play in British newspapers; as near as I can tell, it has not been picked up stateside.