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DonRedwood

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29. I sat on my roof in L.A. during the Rodney King riots and EVERY business in our neighborhood

Reply to MichiganVote (Reply #11)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 11:57 PM

Oct 2012

was looted and many of them burned.

The only exception was the little market at the end of the block. The Korean owners were up on the roof with rifles to keep it safe.

So... I'm not going to knock what you say. It is terrible to live through though and I wish good will towards the peeps of NY.

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NY Blackout? [View all] bigtree Oct 2012 OP

looting in 1...2...3 MichiganVote Oct 2012 #1

Nice. Real nice. Chorophyll Oct 2012 #5

Wow -what a horrible thing to say. myrna minx Oct 2012 #6

ok, we'll see. MichiganVote Oct 2012 #7

Considering it was a decision made by Con-Edison to power down, they apparently myrna minx Oct 2012 #8

You're probably right. Looting only happens in other places. MichiganVote Oct 2012 #9

It might be thoughtful to wait for people to be out of harm's way before you assume New Yorkers are myrna minx Oct 2012 #10

Is that what I did? Pardon me. I should have said looting by non New Yorkers. MichiganVote Oct 2012 #11

in the last major NY blackout bigtree Oct 2012 #14

An old friend of mine related this story to me... Ellipsis Oct 2012 #21

Holy crap, dude. It's a little bit hard to loot when you're dealing with 12-foot storm surges. Chorophyll Oct 2012 #19

Sounds like you've got it figured out. MichiganVote Oct 2012 #22

I sat on my roof in L.A. during the Rodney King riots and EVERY business in our neighborhood DonRedwood Oct 2012 #29

A LOT of people are joking about looting on Twitter FrodosPet Oct 2012 #28

Potential looters in NYC are going to have be okay with swimming through the streets Chorophyll Oct 2012 #30

You are supposed to count down. You can't even stereotype right. morningfog Oct 2012 #12

I am? Ok, 6..4..3..2..um what's next? MichiganVote Oct 2012 #16

You're still doing it wrong. morningfog Oct 2012 #17

So it seems. Who knew I could be so stupid. MichiganVote Oct 2012 #23

We all do now. morningfog Oct 2012 #24

And the world will no doubt be a better place for it. MichiganVote Oct 2012 #25

There was a huge blackout in the 1960s that I remember flamingdem Oct 2012 #13

You're living in a 1970's time warp LiberalElite Oct 2012 #18

ConEd cut the power to Lower Manhattan a few hours ago Ruby the Liberal Oct 2012 #2

Earthcam Shows Times Square All Lit Up cantbeserious Oct 2012 #3

Con Edison took a portion of lower Manhattan offline intentionally. Chorophyll Oct 2012 #4

9:19 PM mia Oct 2012 #15

A BIG area on the right side of the pic is still dark at 11:46 pm FrodosPet Oct 2012 #26

This message was self-deleted by its author cthulu2016 Oct 2012 #20

They de energized large sections of the grid ahead of the flooding nadinbrzezinski Oct 2012 #27