Female survivors urged to flash breasts for help
Rescuers told gals on rooftops to 'show us what you've got'
World Net Daily | September 6 2005
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/060905flashbreasts.htm
Female survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New
Orleans were urged by government rescuers to
flash their breasts in order to receive help in
the immediate aftermath of the storm.
That according to English tourists who are now
just returning to the United Kingdom, relating
their horror stories to British media.
Ged Scott, 36, of Liverpool, was on his annual
vacation at New Orleans' Ramada Hotel with his
wife Sandra, 37, and their 7-year-old son, Ronan.
"I could not describe how bad the authorities
were, taking photographs of us as we are standing
on the roof waving for help, for their own
personal photo albums, little snapshot photographs," Scott told BBC News.
Scott said there was a group of girls standing on
the lobby's roof, calling out to passing rescuers for help.
"[The authorities] said to them, 'Well, show us
what you've got' doing signs for them to lift
their T-shirts up. The girls said no, and [the
rescuers] said 'well fine,' and motored off down
the road in their motorboat. That's the sort of
help we had from the authorities," he said.
New Orleans is noted for women flashing their
breasts in public, especially during the annual Mardi Gras festival.
Scott called the relief operation "horrendous,"
noting police officers had taken "souvenir"
photographs of stranded people begging for help.
"The only information we got from anybody in
authority was if a policeman came past and we
shouted to them out of the windows. The only
information we ever got off them was negative,
'Do not go here. Do not go there'. There was no,
'Are you OK? Are you safe? Have you got water?'
Most of the time they would ignore us."
Scott recounted that at night, police completely
vanished, leaving stranded hotel guests and staff to defend themselves.
"You would hear shots ringing out during the
night and that was one of the most worrying
things, because we had no security," Scott said.
"We patrolled the halls and checked the doors
throughout the night in the hotel but if
someone had wanted to come in, there was not much
we could have done about it."
Scott waded through waist-deep water to barricade the hotel's doors.
"It was like wading through an open sewer," he
said. "It reeked to high heaven and made you want
to vomit. Outside I could see bodies floating in the water."
He says looters actually tried to sell the
Ramada's guests stolen cell phones, radios and clothing.
The guests were finally rescued by Louisiana game
wardens, who entered the hotel with rifles and fixed bayonets.
The family is back safe in England, but Scott
says he worries about the psychological impact on his young son.
"He was fantastic but he has been exposed to
things no 7-year-old should ever see, and it is
bound to come out in the future."
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