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To: Joe NYC who wrote (249433)	9/4/2005 11:16:25 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572021

As the hurricane was approaching, I was talking to a guy who lives in Harlem (which is no picnic) and he said that when he was in NO recently, he has seen so much crime going on during the daylight in front of his own eyes, in the downtown (or whatever the tourist part is called) that he has never seen in NYC. This lawlessness was a ticking time bomb. It didn't just "happen". Guess where this happened. Was it a ticking time bomb or did it just happen?. You tell me: "Minutes after the Blackout began, men in trucks equipped with chains and hooks were being paid by crowds to rip off the iron gates and fences that protected neighborhood stores. Within fifteen minutes, stolen goods were being offered to neighborhood residents who were on the streets or stranded in apartment buildings without elevator service." "Within two hours it became apparent that the situation was not going to end quickly, and thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens joined in what was to become the largest collective theft in history."" blackout.gmu.edu