Friday, April 04, 2008

Got Beer?

I have rather the reverse problem.

Hence, I should probably head over to the Happy Hour at Room 101. Be seein' ya.......
Posted by Froog at 9:13 AM
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5 comments:

The British Cowboy said...

Is that a post-Katrina plea?

1:26 PM, April 07, 2008
Froog said...

No idea where the photo comes from. Plausible. But it doesn't quite feel like N'Awlins to me.

3:13 PM, April 07, 2008
The British Cowboy said...

Well New Orleans wasn't the only place affected. Just the only one where the media made up stories of rampaging mobs.

3:42 PM, April 07, 2008
Froog said...

Mmm, haven't followed stories of media misreporting on that. But I did have a friend down there throughout that period (and spoke to him on the phone two or three times), and he told me that there were indeed some gun-toting gangs around, looting and taking pot shots at the National Guard.

Where social order breaks down that far, I think you're always going to have a fair bit of crime of that nature - and particularly in a city that's got a lot of gun crime anyway. It might have been overplayed by the media, but I believe there was some substance to those reports.

4:04 PM, April 07, 2008
The British Cowboy said...

Not denying there were very bad spots. Bu tthe big stories about the Metrodome were patently untrue.

2:03 PM, April 08, 2008

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