ever wonder why people hate new orleans?

[sammyg2]

EDIT (besides the fact that Mule is from there, that in itself would be enough).

Here's why, bunch of greedy lowlife parasites:

NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Katrina's victims have put a price tag on their suffering and it is staggering — including one plaintiff seeking the unlikely sum of $3 quadrillion.
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A whopping $3,014,170,389,176,410 is the dollar figure so far sought from some of the largest claims filed against the federal government over damage from the failure of levees and flood walls following the Aug. 29, 2005, hurricane.

Of roughly 489,000 total claims, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it has received 247 for at least $1 billion apiece, including the one for $3 quadrillion.

"That's the mother of all high numbers," said Loren Scott, a Baton Rouge-based economist.

For the sake of perspective: A mere $1 quadrillion would dwarf the U.S. gross domestic product, which Scott said was $13.2 trillion in 2007. A stack of one quadrillion pennies would reach Saturn.

Some residents may have grossly exaggerated their claims to send a message to the corps, which has accepted blame for poorly designing the failed levees.

"I understand the anger," Scott said. "I also understand it's a negotiating tactic: Aim high and negotiate down."

Daniel Becnel, Jr., a lawyer who said his clients have filed more than 60,000 claims, said measuring Katrina's devastation in dollars and cents is a nearly impossible task.

"There's no way on earth you can figure it out," he said. "The trauma these people have undergone is unlike anything that has occurred in the history of our country."

The corps released zip codes, but no names, for the 247 claims of at least $1 billion. The list includes a $77 billion claim by the city of New Orleans. Fourteen involve a wrongful death claim. Fifteen were filed by businesses, including several insurance companies.

Little is known about the person who claimed $3 quadrillion. It was filed in Baker, 93 miles northwest of New Orleans. Baker is far from the epicenter of Katrina's destruction, but the city has a trailer park where hundreds of evacuees have lived since the storm.

Katrina, which is blamed for more than 1,600 deaths in Louisiana and Mississippi, is considered the most destructive storm to ever hit the U.S. It caused at least $60 billion in insured losses and could cost Gulf Coast states up to $125 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Most of the claims were filed before a deadline that coincided with Katrina's second anniversary, but the Corps is still receiving them — about 100 claims have arrived over the past three weeks — and is feeding them into a computer database.

The Corps said it isn't passing judgment on the merits of each claim. Federal courts are in charge of deciding if a claim is valid and how much compensation is warranted.

"It's important to the person who filed it, so we're taking every single claim seriously," Corps spokeswoman Amanda Jones said.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Here's why, greedy lowlife parasites:



Katrina, which is blamed for more than 1,600 deaths in Louisiana and Mississippi, is considered the most destructive storm to ever hit the U.S.

God forbid people take responsibility for not using common sense and leaving when told

[legion]

New Orleans is the only city where I've seen someone take a dump in public.

This was not in the French Quarter by some drunk idiot either, this was on Poidrass near the casino. Some guy just dropped trough in the gutter and did his business. Pulled up his pants and kept walking.

[targa911S]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Here's why, greedy lowlife parasites:

A stack of one quadrillion pennies would reach Saturn.

That made me laugh out loud.

[Sunroof]

Many years ago when I was working in Mobile, Alabama I decided to take a ride over to New Orleans having never seen the city. The famous Bourbon Street was my destination. I made my way down to that locale and parked my car and made it over to Boubon Street around 3 PM. No sooner then I turned the corner onto Bourbon I was approached by some ragged out F#@$&in A-hole who demanded my money, with a "I will kill you look on his face". I side stepped two feet into a doorway that was a small bar somewhat freaked out about the incident and asked the bartender to call the cops! He laughed like this was a daily routine on Bourbon Street! I hung out for awhile til the crowds got bigger and made a bee-line back to my car. I was pretty pissed off about the whole thing and gave New Orleans the bird headin out of town. That was the last time I was in New Orleans and probably will be for along time. Place sucks!

[Hugh R]

I worked in NOLA right after Katrina making a movie. The people of Louisiana in general are fabulous, the people who hang around the French Qtr, are trash. Lots of poverty in NOLA, a combination of government subsidies, poor educational system, corruption. Its also a really stupid place to put a city. During dry conditions, there are levees that have static water levels 10 and 20 feet above the houses that they butt up against! Hello???

[K. Roman]

I saw someone take a leak right on a van in front of my hotel in Vienna. I wanted to kick him in the a$$. But I resisted. And went to a better hotel, the one that the cabbie said GWB stayed in!

[masraum]

New Orleans has fabulous music and food. I've never had a problem. Yes there are po-folks and weird folks and po-weird folks. I give them all a bit of a wide berth.

[Sapporo Guy]

hmmm, I guess you'all didn't know that Americans are famous such law suits.

I think the basic problem is more with the system than with the people of New Orleans. They are just talking advantage of the system, like I'm sure any other people of such-and-such village, town, city or state.

how to make more money than winning the lottery = sue somebody

[Hugh R]

Originally Posted by Sapporo Guy

hmmm, I guess you'all didn't know that Americans are famous such law suits.

I hope your joking, of course we know. The USA is the lawsuit capital of the World.

[varmint]

Originally Posted by legion

New Orleans is the only city where I've seen someone take a dump in public.
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come to santa monica sometime. every biological function/fluid is on display.


any body see the end of the topgear episode where they drive through new orleans? they donate their cars to a local charity. and are then threatened with a lawsuit because theysaid one of the cars was an 81 when it was actually a 79. the big idiot, clarkson, looked genuinely scared.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by masraum

New Orleans has fabulous music and food. I've never had a problem. Yes there are po-folks and weird folks and po-weird folks. I give them all a bit of a wide berth.

Don't know if I'll ever go back (too many memories pre-Katrina), but you've nailed it imo. Folks who generalize about NOLA based upon their experiences in the touristy, "crap" of the few square blocks that make up the French Quarter are clueless. You advice is excellent in all cities, particularly NOLA, but just don't steer clear of a "po-boy", or it's your loss .

[Mule]

Can you expand a little bit on what you meant by everybody, there Sammy? I mean besides your legions of fans. Have you ever been to NO Sammy? Have you always had this urge to make an ass of yourself in public?

What you refer to is nothing more that a typical response by dirtbags who have been spawned (I almost said raised but that indicates parenting) by 5 or 6 generations of welfare recipients. They know in their hearts that the white man owes them. Fine folks like Jesse & Al have re-enforced their beliefs. Amazingly, some dirtbag lawyers are trying to make a buck off the situation.

I know the Golden State has no situations similar to this. Those elite folks that we, in the rest of the country watched burn down east LA after the Rodney King verdict (Damian, Football, Williams & his homies) are certainly not capable of anything like this. Law has a higher standard there too, as exemplified by fine barristers like Johny Cochran. So this could never happen in the slums of LA, Oakland or the rest of the Golden State.

Why don't you just spit it out like a cheerleader on prom nite Sammy. You hate the South! You like to sit in your imagined paradise and figure that even though you feel inferior to everybody you meet, there must be somebody somewhere that you are superior to. My guess is that you have reasoned out that you are inferior to everybody because you are in the epicenter of coolness, CA. But there must be people somewhere who you are not inferior to, it's them "dumb assed Southerners." Nice try. But it wouldn't be any different for you anywhere else. And guys like me, who point you out for the buffoon you are, really chap your ass!

As I've pointed out to you before, reality, it's a b!tch!

[Tobra]

Geez Mule, Mike Vick is one of your boys from the south, lighten up. There are a lot of *******s from everywhere

New Orleans is a shat hole tourist trap, good music and food though.

[Mule]

I don't know if your map shows anything beyond the border, but NO has very little in common with the area south of Washington DC. Don't like it here? My advise to you & Sammy would be to keep your asses in CA & ponder paradise. We have enough *********s here already.

[Tobra]

Don't be so hard on yourself Mulie, you are not that big an *********.

I like the south and the people who live there much more than the folks who have been moving to Cali

[bivenator]

Originally Posted by Mule

I don't know if your map shows anything beyond the border, but NO has very little in common with the area south of Washington DC. Don't like it here? My advise to you & Sammy would be to keep your asses in CA & ponder paradise. We have enough *********s here already.

Damn, and I thought I was in a bad mood today.

[Mule]

Not much of a mind reader. I was just going by what you say, "New Orleans is a shat hole tourist trap." Pardon me if I missed the true meaning.

[Mule]

I have dealt with tons of anti New Orleans crap here, mostly from people who had no clue what they were talking about, like Sambo, who started the thread. If you want to have a polite discussion, I'm fine with that. If you want to turn up the stupid, I can do that too.

[daepp]

I'm from So Cal and spent all my summers as a kid in NO.

- The people there are fabulous
- They like corrupt government
- The food is awesome
- Their homes are beautiful
- The average black and white Joe Six Pack get along better there than here
- They pay no property taxes, so they have little in the way of decent infrastructure
- It's a 400 year old cosmopolitan city whose buildings are beautiful
- Most of it should no be rebuilt - only the portions of NOLA that did not flood

My father, an engineer, took me as a kid to see the pumps that kept NOLA dry - and this was in the summer. He told me then at an early age that NOLA was 14 ft. below see level and surrounded by the Mississippi and Lake Ponchartrain, which connects to the ocean. My point is that any educated person in NOLA knew that it would flood again someday, and they all new to fear a direct hurricane hit. Those with any brains left town many times in the last 40 years as hurricanes neared.

BTW - I try to go back there at least once a year.