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After Sandy in NYC some jerks were raiding houses for copper — just depressing...

• aaron695 13y ago
  Why? It's just construction theft. Stealings not great but it happens, no reason to get depressed about it. Not like they were looting straight after the storm or any thing, perhaps that might be depressing but looting in natural disasters is just a myth. A strange myth people cling to, I can think of happier fables to believe in.
  • dylangs1030 13y ago
    What makes you say it's just a myth?
  • dmckeon 13y ago
    Trolling? Here's a fairly extreme example of looting: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/hurricane/archives/hugo89a.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/hurri... Try googling <event name> and "looting" and look for verified or police reports rather than Nth hand rumor and "looting has been reported". You will find it is unfortunately less rare than one might hope.
• Domenic_S 13y ago
  A certain segment has been raiding for copper for a long time. An old building I worked in in downtown Sacramento was flooded because someone stole the copper water pipes on the next building over -- shooting water into our building. This was back in like 2008/2009.
  • venomsnake 13y ago
    They were doing a subtle PSA - put plastic pipes in the house.