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"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water, and stupid men."
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<Reply # 21 on 3/20/2006 9:23 PM >
|  | | | Posted by underdark
Seems tacky as hell to UE a disaster site.
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Erm, what hobby do you participate in? Because I enjoy going through abandoned locations where some of the most egregious abuses ocurred; where people were more or less tortured; where people died, and were cut open; where people were imprisoned. Don't see the difference, except that Nawlins is much more recent.
Posted by 0U812
Oooooo I would be afraid I would find a body or something. But then I guess that might be a good thing. So that their family would know what happened. I feel sorry for those people.
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Nothing to be afraid of - only in the movies do bodies rise to attack you. And don't forget about the photo ops that a body would provide.
Edit: fixed spelling on a word.
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Azrael
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| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 22 on 3/21/2006 9:49 PM >
| | | | I follow UE but i prefer industrial sites, everyone has a different view on the subject, if horror background stories to a location are your thing, knock yourself out but where i explore there has probably never been any of that, maybe the odd accident.
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| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 23 on 3/21/2006 10:42 PM >
| | | | Posted by Leviathan
don't forget about the photo ops that a body would provide.
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RUAUER?
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Turd Furgusen
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I think marijuana is just nature's way of saying high!
| |  |  | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 24 on 3/21/2006 10:43 PM >
| | | | FUCK THAT look what you can find in New Orleans!!!!!
Volunteer helping in hurricane-damaged home finds $30,000 hidden in wall
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS -- Trista Wright was spending her spring break cleaning out hurricane-damaged homes when she discovered some unusual papers among the moldy plaster board and debris.
"I started raking it out of the air conditioner vent. I thought it was garbage and I was going to shovel it up, but I bent down to pick it up, and it was a stack of $100 bills, and then more and more kept coming," the 19-year-old said today on CNN.
By an unofficial count, it was more than $30,000.
Wright and fellow students notified the organizers of their church mission, who told the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office.
The woman who owned the house, who has asked that she not be identified, was as shocked as Wright.
"She was speechless," said Wright, an Armstrong Atlantic State University student was among 175 Georgia college students spending their week off volunteering in the city's Arabi area.
Deputy Gary Adams verified the identity of the woman who owned the home.
Adams said it's not uncommon to find weapons or medications behind the walls of homes, but this was the biggest sum of hidden money he had heard of. "It's good to see someone find something like that and turn it over to proper authorities and the rightful owner," he said.
The homeowner said she suspects the money belonged to her father, who was wary of banks. The home had been in the family for generations, she said.
"I had my suspicions about the money at first, but once I met the family and talked to the woman, I have no doubt she's telling the truth," said Aaron Arledge, one of the organizers of the mission. "She said her father grew up during the Depression and must not have told anyone in the family about it before he died."
The one-story house was flooded to the eaves by Katrina and, aside from the hidden money, none of its contents could be saved, church officials said.
"To see that woman's face when we told her about the money, that's the kind of positive story that makes all the hard work worthwhile," said the Rev. Warren Jones Jr. of New Salem Baptist Church in the Ninth Ward, which has served as a base for church missions. "She said it was a miracle. And when you think about it, it was."
Haley Barton, a fellow student who was in the house with Wright, said there was never a question of keeping the money.
"I think that it's expected of us as young people, or people of any age this day, to go in and take it and not be faithful or trustworthy in turning it in, but that wasn't even an option for us," she said.
http://www.chron.c...ation/3737691.html
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Medication Time...
| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 25 on 3/21/2006 11:42 PM >
| | | | maybe some of you would like to go ue my aunts house that is a pile of sticks now?
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| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 26 on 3/22/2006 2:42 AM >
| | | | Posted by Turd Furgusen
"She was speechless," said Wright, an Armstrong Atlantic State University student was among 175 Georgia college students spending their week off volunteering in the city's Arabi area.
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Man, fuck AASU kids !
This isn't boot camp and you are not a ninja. But you sure look like an idiot in that outfit.
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| | | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 27 on 3/22/2006 3:00 AM >
| | | | Posted by Leviathan
Erm, what hobby do you participate in? Because I enjoy going through abandoned locations where some of the most egregious abuses ocurred; where people were more or less tortured; where people died, and were cut open; where people were imprisoned. Don't see the difference, except that Nawlins is much more recent.
Nothing to be afraid of - only in the movies do bodies rise to attack you. And don't forget about the photo ops that a body would provide.
Edit: fixed spelling on a word.
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Dead bodies? Good it's not closer, and too bad it isn't. Pics would be ghastly, the smell would linger. Yummy.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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0U812
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Texploration
| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 28 on 3/22/2006 2:41 PM >
| | | | Posted by Turd Furgusen
FUCK THAT look what you can find in New Orleans!!!!!
Volunteer helping in hurricane-damaged home finds $30,000 hidden in wall
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS -- Trista Wright was spending her spring break cleaning out hurricane-damaged homes when she discovered some unusual papers among the moldy plaster board and debris.
"I started raking it out of the air conditioner vent. I thought it was garbage and I was going to shovel it up, but I bent down to pick it up, and it was a stack of $100 bills, and then more and more kept coming," the 19-year-old said today on CNN.
By an unofficial count, it was more than $30,000.
Wright and fellow students notified the organizers of their church mission, who told the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office.
The woman who owned the house, who has asked that she not be identified, was as shocked as Wright.
"She was speechless," said Wright, an Armstrong Atlantic State University student was among 175 Georgia college students spending their week off volunteering in the city's Arabi area.
Deputy Gary Adams verified the identity of the woman who owned the home.
Adams said it's not uncommon to find weapons or medications behind the walls of homes, but this was the biggest sum of hidden money he had heard of. "It's good to see someone find something like that and turn it over to proper authorities and the rightful owner," he said.
The homeowner said she suspects the money belonged to her father, who was wary of banks. The home had been in the family for generations, she said.
"I had my suspicions about the money at first, but once I met the family and talked to the woman, I have no doubt she's telling the truth," said Aaron Arledge, one of the organizers of the mission. "She said her father grew up during the Depression and must not have told anyone in the family about it before he died."
The one-story house was flooded to the eaves by Katrina and, aside from the hidden money, none of its contents could be saved, church officials said.
"To see that woman's face when we told her about the money, that's the kind of positive story that makes all the hard work worthwhile," said the Rev. Warren Jones Jr. of New Salem Baptist Church in the Ninth Ward, which has served as a base for church missions. "She said it was a miracle. And when you think about it, it was."
Haley Barton, a fellow student who was in the house with Wright, said there was never a question of keeping the money.
"I think that it's expected of us as young people, or people of any age this day, to go in and take it and not be faithful or trustworthy in turning it in, but that wasn't even an option for us," she said.
http://www.chron.c...ation/3737691.html
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I so would have stuffed that money in my pockets and not told anyone. 
Just kidding. How cool for the owner to get all the money after what she'd been through.
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| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 29 on 3/22/2006 2:53 PM >
| | | | yeah id say so! 30g's makes for a good down payment on her next house but if she has insurance she prob just went and bought a lexus!
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0U812
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Texploration
| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 30 on 3/22/2006 3:38 PM >
| | | | Hey, nothing wrong with that either. I think anyone in that area deserves every good fortune that befalls them. Certainly aren't going to get anything like that from the govt.
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| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 31 on 3/22/2006 3:51 PM >
| | | | Not when the government is so concerned with abstinence-only sex ed & making sure gay people can't tie the knot...
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Lonestar
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| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 32 on 3/22/2006 4:01 PM >
| | | | nothin wrong with that at all! i'd take it, lol!
Posted by 0U812
Certainly aren't going to get anything like that from the govt.
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Well of course not! nor should they expect it! If i lost everything, the last place id look for help is our gov.
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0U812
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Texploration
| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 33 on 3/22/2006 4:07 PM >
| | | | Posted by boutdatloenstar
nothin wrong with that at all! i'd take it, lol!
Well of course not! nor should they expect it! If i lost everything, the last place id look for help is our gov.
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Indeed.
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| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 34 on 3/28/2006 6:35 AM >
| | | | In a dire attempt to avoid a political tack...I think UEing in Katrina-hit areas would be fine, as long as you did so with the intention of helping out; you know, helping government aid groups evaluate damage to houses, etc.
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| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 35 on 3/28/2006 7:39 AM >
| | | | Posted by Errant
In a dire attempt to avoid a political tack...I think UEing in Katrina-hit areas would be fine, as long as you did so with the intention of helping out; you know, helping government aid groups evaluate damage to houses, etc.
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fuck that. opportunity is opportunity.
i'm not going to avoid exploring in detroit because those areas were ruined and discarded over a 50 year span of mismanagement and abuse.
just like i'm not going to avoid NOLA just because it's a disaster area. the whole deal wouldn't have been nearly as rough if the american government had been on the fucking ball and gotten aid on it's way down there before the storm hit.
any fucking moron with a computer that can play a radar loop could see that NOLA was going to get fucked, but the government was entirely too preoccupied with a failing invasion and occupancy of a foreign nation; there simply were no national guard or other domestic aid workers to send in on a day's notice; the humanitarian efforts, as seen, take a week or more to mobilize.
what i was really amazed with, was the american corporations, who usually make the government look like the good guys... they really stepped up, PR stunt or not.
--dev
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| | | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 36 on 3/28/2006 8:24 AM >
| | | | Im curious, where are all the damn lawyers and why is there no criminal negligence suits being filed???? Id like to see them go for Bush but hell FEMA is a good target too. If you have done any searches at all, you already know Bush was well aware of what was going to happen and didnt do shit. In ANY court of law, that is criminal negligence!!!
http://www.informa...o/article12132.htm
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Lonestar
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| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 37 on 3/28/2006 7:50 PM >
| | | | As well as bush knew, those people did too. i personally would never ask the gov for any thing and dont think anyone else should either! i think the whole ordeal was handled completely wrong, but for the poeple that live there, they should have got the heck out! if someone told you there was a 90% chance that a car was gonna hit you if you stayed in one spot, youd move so why is this any different? if you know your house is gonna flood, dont sit around waiting on those paumpus pricks to bring you food and water and a master card, take what ya got and get where you can go!
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| | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 38 on 3/29/2006 4:16 AM >
| | | | uh, no offense, but that's kind of an ignorant thing to say. You gotta understand, a lot of these people, especially in the poorer regions, had little else besides their house and the things in it. That was their investment. To just up and walk away when there's a storm warning, no matter how severe, isn't that simple. Not to mention, where would they go? And how? You're assuming they a) had cars, and empty interstates to drive them on, or b) enough cash to feel comfortable buying expensive plane tickets for their whole family at the drop of a hat.
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| | | | Re: Dont UE in New Orleans
<Reply # 39 on 3/29/2006 4:20 AM >
| | | | that story makes me sad  /
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