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.......

5 comments:

The British Cowboy said...

Is that a post-Katrina plea?

Froog said...

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

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.

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.

The British Cowboy said...

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