Yeah, if you go, you have to check in at Memorial Hall (?) and get a wrist band.

castle doctrine ?

JPD instituted four checkpoints around town to issue permits for vehicle travel within the destroyed areas. I know only where two of the four exactly are.

@Hillbilly: They've been looting stores... Whether theyve been hit directly by the tornado or have any appreciable damage at all.

Are you ****ing serious?

Wow, that looks like God came thru and left a divot with his 4 iron.

Stay safe.

Looters should be immediately shot in the head, and then questioned at a later date.

Some neck will blow one away before its all over.

Heard a rumor from a friend who talked to the national guardsmen / police on the scene and they told him looters were stepping over bodies getting at stuff from the destroyed Wal-Mart on Range Line.


The local news reported that a power sports shop had four dirtbikes and other assorted smaller items stolen Monday or Tuesday as well.

Hopefully, they catch that one on YouTube as well.

12 gauge.

****ing animals.

Why the hell not?

This town has enough to deal with and shouldn't be wasting valuable human resources on scumbags that think they have some right to pillage the community while the rest of the citizens are trying to cope with real tragedy. Anyone who thinks its ok to go around and take what does not belong to them is a waste of skin.
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I was referring to the looting, not that the pieces of human filth shouldn't be shot.

Gotcha. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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My fault. I should have edited out the rest.

I thought only the blacks in Nawleans looted, not us god fearing white people. We're the scrappy, require no gub'mt assistance, help your neighbor, up by the bootstraps kind. ;)

Trash is trash.

50 Caliber to the back of the head would be a cool video.........

This

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JOPLIN, MO. --Local police warn looters will be sorry.
Items have already been stolen from businesses and residences in Joplin.

Action 12's Morgan Schutters reports on the insult added to the tornado's wrath.
Police say looting amongst the wreckage has begun.

People are taking items at will... even breaking into locked businesses.
A break-in at Smith's Family Powersports on East 7th Street happened Sunday night.

Six dirt bikes, tools, and helmets were taken ... the owners guess about 20-thousand dollars worth of damages.
"You need to keep an eye on your businesses, just because it made it through the tornado does not mean it is safe," Owner Shane Smith says.

Smith says he's tried to alert police, but knows their priority right now is searching for victims beneath the rubble.
"A hole in the system --our alarms were working but the phone lines weren't so no one was notified," Smith says.

Smith says the thefts feel like being 'kicked when you're down' --
"I just can't believe after everything that's happened in Joplin that people would do this!" Smith says.

And police say looters are going through devastated neighborhoods ... taking anything spared from the tornado's wrath.
Officials warn looters -- beware!

Police are on the lookout for any trespassing thieves ... a curfew of 9pm is now set for each night. You now have to have a permit to be active in the city -- issuing identification at various checkpoints to get the permit. Permits expire after 48 hours.

"I'd highly advise anyone who has ideas of looting to think twice because i guarantee there are a lot of police and stress is at an all-time high. So i'd be very careful before I'd do anything stupid like that," local Police Chief Carl Francis says.

Smiths Family Powersports is offering a 500 dollar reward ... Call 417-451-FAST if you have any information about the theft.

What is the National Guard doing? It seemed like their biggest function after the Tuscaloosa tornado was to enforce the curfew.

ummmmm. yeah.

Thieves in this kind of situation should be shot dead. No mercy.

They might be doing that after starting last night, but when I saw them on Main and 26th they were directing traffic.

There have been several citizens that have seen looters and taken matters into their own hands or fists if you will.

We need a CP posse to TCB on some looters. I have a 4x4 and a shotgun. Whos with me?

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I won't join the shooters, but I will accompany you chaps and ask so many questions of the looters that they'll shoot themselves.

We need to bring back the stocks for these assholes. A shitkicking and a jail sentence just doesn't seem adequate enough for these ****bags.

They should string the ****ers up and leave them twisting in the wind as a warning to others. In a situation like this, frontier justice should apply.

I approve of this. I can't bring myself to actually say that people should literally be killed for this, but it'd be fun to make them sit in town for the public ridicule. If someone wants to come by and take a piss on their heads, so be it.

And THEN they can get thrown in jail.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?not...17118671706061

Great page to go to in order to see what faundraisers and collections are going on in your area (in Missouri anyway).

ive never shot a man. But **** around in my backyard after some shit like happened in joplin and i wouldnt hesitate to get ya down and never let ya up. Gotta figure im not the only one who feels this way.

From Tide:

Good news fans, we have confirmed a location for Loads of Hope in Joplin, MO. We will be washing laundry starting Thursday May 26 at 8am at Walmart 2623 W 7th Street Joplin, MO 64801. We will be there through May 30, 2011. Spread the word and follow us on Twitter @TideLoadsofHope.

From Joplin, MO Tornado Recovery on facebook:

The Duracell Power Relief Trailer will be in Joplin, MO starting Wednesday at 10 am, find us in the Walmart parking lot at 2623 W. 7th Street. Stop by to reconnect with loved ones (we'll have satellite phones, a computer kiosk station and Wi-Fi), recharge your mobile devices and get information on how to get help in the area.

i got identical 22-250 rem and .243 win rifles both set up with bi pods(sniper ready) and dialed in scopes. roughly 1000 rounds for each. Got an old single shot 20 gauge i started on as a kid that is now about a 14" barrel and stock is sawed off. I think i got some 3" steel shot goose load for that.

It's pretty cool how some businesses have come up with ideas like this specifically for disaster relief efforts.

Exactly what I was thinking. What an ingenious idea to have a station for people to recharge their stuff and possibly connect with loved ones. Kudos to these peeps.

Yep. For every one of these scumbag looters, there are thousands of people & businesses that are so willing to volunteer their time and money to help out.

Makes me proud.
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Agreed.

My co-worker, who has been working so hard to coordinate foster homes, transportation and vets for displaced animals got word this morning, after being asked to provide a list of all of this, has been told that no animals will be leaving the Joplin area. They thanked her but told her that they have trained teams in place. She has put in so much time and effort to provide them with lists of people. Now she has to go back and talk to everyone.

can't remember where it was, heck it might have been this thread with someones grandparents missing. Anyway, some college kids rescued them and took them in the back of a pickup to the hospital. Damn that got me choked up with pride for those kids. Just one of several i have read that makes you proud to be part of blue collar midwestern folk.

ROFL
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These things bring out the best in most people, but the worst in a few.

we'd give ya a l'ville slugger and you could play the part of the 'Bear Jew' from Operation Valkrie and finish off the wounded.:thumb:

sounds good to me.

I just always liked that part with the bear jew in the tarintino flick and he seemed like a bad mother.

Hard to compete with Chuck though, good choice!:thumb:

Joplin, MO Tornado Recovery:
The City has established the following phone numbers for people interested in donating their time or items to aid in the recovery effort:
Individual volunteers wanting to donate their time should call 417-625-3543
Volunteers wanting to donate items can call 417-625-3542
Volunteer groups (churches, businesses, etc.) should call 314-623-9991

don't think i've seen lost highway. Have to keep my eyes peeled for that one.

You got to put up with Tom Cruise but Valkrie is a pretty good flick you would probably like.

Nice work editing the OP, DaFace.
That’s all very useful information, thanks. :thumb:

Most of the work was done by warispeace in this thread. I just don't want to stick the threads since there's so much discussion about it, so I decided to move the "how to help" info here.

This.

Thanks.

There's so much talk about everything else, that some of this information might get lost in the shuffle.

FYP +

DONNY! We got us a German here that wants to die for his country! Oblige him! /Aldo “the Apache”

Still 1500 people unaccounted for? WOW! My thought and prayers to all there.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ouri-town.html

Horrible photos of Joplin before and after.

The picture of the apartments with the pool in the middle (around 4th one down) is the one behind Walmart/Home Depot that some people fled.

I like it. A veiled threat that you might get shot. :thumb:

The panoramic shots look like Hiroshima.

It's true. I have a customer that was in the electronics section at Wal Mart when the tornado came. The DVD racks stopped roof from crushing him. He said at the same time that he and a few others were pulling people over the back wall of Wal Mart some other people were pulling LCD's over the wall.

That's pretty disgusting, but par for the course nowadays.

The panorama's especially....


:facepalm:

Woo hoo. I'm actually typing on my computer instead of the cell phone.

:shake: Hope every single one of them was inoperable.

Westboro Baptist will be protesting here Sunday.

Feel free to make them dead.

Westboro Baptist Church can go DIAF.

Okay, looks like I will be in jail Sunday night, and sued by monday. Can I file bankruptcy on any suit I lose.

Let's start a collection for bail money. I'll throw in the first $50.

You don't hear people say this very often, but I wish they had arrived three days sooner.

I wish the media would just ****ing ignore them. That's literally the only way they can lose. They're pathetic people who have no power that isn't given to them by the people that hate them most. Just turn off the cameras.

LMAO

what are they protesting?

Obviously, America's support of gays necessitates the deaths of dozens by the hand of god.

America, like always. They just like to do it as outrageously and in front of as many camera crews as possible.

Perhaps the police will conveniently be too busy searching for survivors to be around...