I didn't want to hijack the other thread, but Rat brought out a major point of anger many of us who live in cities that took in refugees from Katrina.
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/medi...exanonline.com
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The people who crashed the parties were found to have used a credit card issued by the Red Cross to purchase a taxii to get to the college apartements to crash them. They were supposed to be used for food/clothing/rent, instead were used to crash a party and kill innocent people.
Just a few of my buddies (5) in October were sitting in our apartement drinking listening to some music. 8 guys barged into our apartement and started going after our liquor, we told them to get out and they pulled a gun. We were lucky considering I was in the kitchen and quickly presented a knife and "convinced" them to leave. They were not local thugs, one of them was wearing a Red Cross t-shirt given out to the refugees.
Only a week later I awoke outside our apartement hearing "GET DOWN HERE NIGGER", and found myself trying to defend 2 girls (1 black) from about 10 guys I've never seen before 3 of them wearing a Saints shirt (generally a good indication).
In our apartement prior to Katrina I've whitnessed exactly 1 fight in 2 years. Within the past couple months it's exploded to at LEAST one a night. My truck has been keyed... twice. And someone attempted to light our upstairs neighbor's door on fire.
Who knows how much doesn't get reported, only two of the incidents the cops even paid attention to (the arson and stabbings).
I'm not sure how to feel about this. Yes I'm glad our city opened up and has donated an enormous amount to these people, yet at the same time I'm contemplating dragging my shotgun up here with some buckshot just in case.