szuberi

dumb americans

http://www.cynical-c.com/?p=9440

xray

I didn't know Amercian hicks can count that high.

Cynikal.Mindset

they cant...they just add lotsa zeros

Cynikal.Mindset

but in all fairness...they are owed some loot...and some major loot at that!

k_r_a_c_k_e_r

iTrader: (3)

ditto.

szuberi

xray

But it stated that with all the claims including that redicules one, that each claimant will receive approx 1 billion dollars. That's alotta loot.

Cynikal.Mindset

I would initially sue for a kajillion trillion million...gotta start high!

pinkcivicchick

iTrader: (-1)

Hahaha.. picture is priceless

viper_2_4

haha

fingolfin

wait.. why are they owed money?
An order was issued to leave the city... those that didn't got screwed..

I realize some people couldn't leave.. but most that suffered choose to wait out the storm at their own risk

yes.. maybe the order to leave the city came late, but it came nontheless....

stupid people

zyepher

Some parts of the city got hit so fast there was no warning.

Educate yo self foo

xray

Yeah, but they didn't expect the levee to break and drown them, fingolfin. And besides, not a lot of people have other places to go to for shelter.

fingolfin

actually they did... the national weather service made a statement that they didn't expect the levies to hold BEFORE the storm hit land

Like I said, the people who didn't have options I understand

fingolfin

perhaps you need to educate yourself

http://thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...ricane_Katrina

so how did they get "hit so fast there was no warning?"

Cynikal.Mindset

where was the relief effort 3 days after????

fingolfin

im not commenting about the disaster that was the relief effort...
im counter the statement that there was no warning.. there was a decent amount of warning, so much so that over 90% of the population of the city decided to heed it.

If the government was ordering you to leave and you don't, you don't have the right to sue them. If a sign says stop and you go and get hit by a car, are you going to sue Ontario for not doing enough to protect you?

szuberi

no i wont sue ontario for not giving me the warning but after i or somebody calls 911 and the help doesnt show up for that long a time....i will by all means sue them. it is now an established fact and this dumb administration has accepted that there was an unusually long delay....and so many ppl died just cuz of that.

fingolfin

true..

but now what if they told you "szuberi, you MUST not cross the road. You must run away from it now, and you don't. not only do you not, but you cross the road and get hit by a car (in no way am i saying I want you to get hit by a car), then what?"

They pretty much gave themselves a disclaimer.

Jay P

but what if you didn't have the resources to evacuate?

no car? very little $? didn't have a place to go? couldn't just hop on a bus to somewhere? From what I understood, a lot of the people that didn't leave New Orleans because they jsut couldn't.. for whatever reason.