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re: People combing through flood debris for metal
Posted on 9/14/17 at 1:50 pm to Dorothy
Posted on 9/14/17 at 1:50 pm to Dorothy
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It really sucks seeing the your stuff sitting and rotting on the curb for a month, only to have half the neighborhood's piles picked up while yours still sits because the trucks were full.
Yeah, or when you keep watching the trucks all morning, hoping that they get to you that day. Then they have to leave for 5 days and stop 2 houses down from you.
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Posted on 9/14/17 at 2:04 pm to Coomdaddy
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Should've been looking for copper
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metal
Welp... high school chemistry is hard
Posted on 9/14/17 at 2:27 pm to tgrbaitn08
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bruh, after Katrina, people were coming from all over the world and paying for tours of Lakeview, the 9th Ward. You would see these tour buses all over the place from the Gulf Coast to Uptown to Chalmette...these touring companies were making a killing
They are still operating.
Posted on 9/14/17 at 2:48 pm to novabill
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It is just a trash thing. Well trash and feelings...
You're an idiot. You actually made my point. It's not just trash. I pray you never have to go through this so you don't have to experience what happens to your "trash". It's most people's life possessions, photos, gifts, family keepsakes, antiques, memories.....not trash.
Posted on 9/14/17 at 2:57 pm to Tiger Ryno
it's trash...be glad it isnt going to waste?
Posted on 9/14/17 at 2:59 pm to Techdog89
Losing keepsakes, photos and antiques that we couldn't save was the worst part. On the bright side, we have what amounts to a brand new house.
Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:04 pm to convertedtiger
I'm only speaking for my family and friends that I helped. We hauled everything they lost to the curb and I watched many people cry and grieve over their loss. Many had lived in these homes for most of their lives and people raking through their lost belongings was gut wrenching to them. You had to be a part of it for most to understand. Glad you were able to not let it affect you as much. There was just a real lack of caring from those who immediately were going through everything looking for a few dollars of scrap metal. It was both sad and really upsetting.
Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:06 pm to Tiger Ryno
Stop being a little bitch. Do you rather them steal shite?
This post was edited on 9/14/17 at 3:48 pm
Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:06 pm to Tiger Ryno
I see how this can cheese someone off. I mean, if it is something you threw out because you no longer wanted or needed it, then I say its fair game. However, in this case, these are things that didn't want to get rid of but have to because of the flood. Under the stress and strain of everything I can see how it could set someone off.
Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:10 pm to Tiger Ryno
Not much difference between these guys collecting trash scrap metal and the bombardment you're about to get with small time contractors wanting to get started with your repairs.
Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:25 pm to Techdog89
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Most of the people who lost everything almost looked at this as looting.
Well those people would almost be wrong.
Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:30 pm to Tiger Ryno
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No they weren't. They were trying to capitalize personally during a time were all hands were needed for cleanup.
Good for them. Cleaning up for you and making money
Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:31 pm to Techdog89
Oh it was a bit heart wrenching at the time and we did our fair share of crying. It felt like someone was literally sifting through your most cherished personal possessions, but you get over it and move on. Not much other choice to it, honestly. Take a deep breath, have a good cry, then look for some good in all of it.
Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:33 pm to Tiger Ryno
Had this in the BR flood. I have no problem with it when it's taken out to the road and clearly debris. It's better helping someone out instead of stuck in the front yard waiting for the trash man. The problem is when they start taking stuff from under the carport, after dark, when it's clearly not debris.
Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:35 pm to Techdog89
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Obviously you downvoters didn't flood or lose anything that ever mattered to you.
When my mom died, the funeral home still asked for money.
Was that wrong of them?
Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:41 pm to Techdog89
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There was just a real lack of caring from those who immediately were going through everything looking for a few dollars of scrap metal. It was both sad and really upsetting.
You ever think that maybe those people lost everything too and they are just trying to make some money to start moving on?
I highly doubt they had insurance to replace all their items.
Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:50 pm to Tiger Ryno
We flooded in BR last year and ran into the same thing.
I didn't care if someone asked if they could look at the trash pile and grab something. Have at it. Most of them were nice and respectful and understood.
But I did get pissed when these trashy arse people would come at night and tear through the garbage pile, cutting open trash bags full of debris and drywall/glass/nails and just dump it out in the yard and sift through it. All the trash and debris that we put in trash bags during the day was all over the yard. That really pissed me off.
Had a run in with 1 classy lady who told me to frick off when I asked them to not go through the bags and dump them out because most of the bags were filled with drywall and building materials and all that. They were doing it during the day and I was standing there watching them. Had a nice exchange of words with her and her husband / boyfriend. Needless to say they left and didn't come back.
I didn't care if someone asked if they could look at the trash pile and grab something. Have at it. Most of them were nice and respectful and understood.
But I did get pissed when these trashy arse people would come at night and tear through the garbage pile, cutting open trash bags full of debris and drywall/glass/nails and just dump it out in the yard and sift through it. All the trash and debris that we put in trash bags during the day was all over the yard. That really pissed me off.
Had a run in with 1 classy lady who told me to frick off when I asked them to not go through the bags and dump them out because most of the bags were filled with drywall and building materials and all that. They were doing it during the day and I was standing there watching them. Had a nice exchange of words with her and her husband / boyfriend. Needless to say they left and didn't come back.
This post was edited on 9/14/17 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:56 pm to TheCaterpillar
Oh, 
Well, in that case, I apologize kind sir.
Well, in that case, I apologize kind sir.
Posted on 9/14/17 at 4:10 pm to magildachunks
No because most of the ones who lost everything and had nothing left were in line to get money and aid. They weren't sifting through other people's things immediately after the flood. If you want to talk about people two months later, maybe. But when this occurred last year in Louisiana there were many parts of Baton Rouge that didn't flood. These people were coming from all over other parts of Baton Rouge to pull scrap immediately after it happened and things started hitting the curb. Nice story if your narrative fit but it doesn't. I was there and these weren't the poor, downtrodden victims you are describing. It felt like vultures swooping in and you had to run them off about twice a day.
Posted on 9/14/17 at 4:14 pm to magildachunks
You're an A$$. No one is talking about your mom or a death. Grow up.
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