Anderson Cooper is the ****ing man.

[Dante84]

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/1...-chaos/?hpt=T2

Ya gotta see these pics.

We were covering another story when we heard shots being fired. We ran toward the sound and found a store being looted. Two Haitian police officers were occasionally firing into the air to try to keep order, but that only worked for a few moments, then the looting would begin again.

They were stealing boxes of candles. An American businessman named Tony who owns two stores nearby barricaded one street to keep looters away. He had armed the two Haitian police with automatic weapons, and they were assisting him, but they were not able to control anything beyond their barricade.

It quickly became a free-for-all. Young men began fighting one another for the stolen items. A number of young men had knives, and planks of wood, screwdrivers and rocks. They were using their improvised weapons to threaten and injure others who had stolen items from the store. The robbers were now being robbed. One group of looters whipped another man with a leather belt. They punched him as well, and they stole the sack of goods he'd just stolen.

I was in the midst of the melee with Charlie Moore, my producer, Neil Hallsworth my cameraman, Vlad Duthiers, my translator, and there was a still photographer from Getty Images with us, photojournalist Jonathan Torgovnik. As things got really out of control, I saw a looter on the roof of the store they'd broken into throw what I think was part of a concrete block into the crowd. It hit a small boy in the head.

I saw him collapse. More chunks of concrete were being thrown at the looters on the roof. The injured boy couldn't get up. He'd try and then collapse again. Blood was pouring from his head. He was conscious but had no control over his body. I was afraid someone on the roof would see him lying there and throw another cinder block piece onto him. I was afraid he'd get killed. No one seemed to be helping him.

I ran to where he was struggling, and picked him up off the ground. I brought him to a spot about a hundred feet away. I could feel his warm blood on my arms. I stood him up, but he was clearly unable to walk. He wiped his bloody face, and I tried to reassure him. He had no idea where he was, and he clearly couldn't walk, so I picked him up again and handed him over to someone behind that makeshift barricade. Tony, the American businessman, gave the boy a wet towel. He was then taken away by someone else. We don't know what happened to him.

I hope he's ok.

[munkey]

Originally Posted by T-post Tom

I know this is just a bb forum, but come on Mr. Hog Farmer. That's really uncalled for.

T-Post - Have you been there? Seriously...

I wouldn't much less go to Iraq than Haiti...just saying.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by munkey

T-Post - Have you been there? Seriously...

I wouldn't much less go to Iraq than Haiti...just saying.

Have you?

[T-post Tom]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

You're right , I'm sorry. There are lots of innocent people there that are good people.

I know where you're coming from. It's easy to get your ire up when you see things like that young boy suffer from such a horrible, inhumane act of violence.

[kcxiv]

There is alot of people in the USA that need to be nuked as well.

[munkey]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

Have you?

Nope....Have no interest in going there. Never said I have or had...Kinda obvious it's not exactly civil...right? OR do you know otherwise?

[Mastashake]

Originally Posted by T-post Tom

I know where you're coming from. It's easy to get your ire up when you see things like that young boy suffer from such a horrible, inhumane act of violence.

Reminds me of Katrina. A guy I know was working for the Red Cross, and getting shot at.

The human condition is twisted. Combine our instinct to do the opposite of what is good for us, with the mob mentality and you have a recipe for disaster.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by T-post Tom

I know where you're coming from. It's easy to get your ire up when you see things like that young boy suffer from such a horrible, inhumane act of violence.

But the thing is , that boy will grow up to be the same as the people that did this to him . That's what bothers me. Some times you just need to start over. You know like when God created woman and realized how bad he'd screwed up........

[munkey]

Originally Posted by T-post Tom

I know where you're coming from. It's easy to get your ire up when you see things like that young boy suffer from such a horrible, inhumane act of violence.

I don't understand this line of thought...there is really shitty stuff happening in our country EVERY day...Would Haiti come to LA's rescue if there was an earthquake?....Prolly not...I'm fairly sure there's a kid with a bloody forehead in the US EVERY DAY that's not shown on the 10 o'clock news...

My 2 cents...

[beer bacon]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

My dad worked over in that country many years ago. He told me stories that you'd see dead bodies laying along side the roads out in the country side. That place needs to be nuked. Those people are not civil.

Argh, that country is full of death, destruction, and misery due to rampant poverty and corruption. Obviously, the solution is to nuke the entire ****ing island.

[Mastashake]

Originally Posted by munkey

I don't understand this line of thought...there is really shitty stuff happening in our country EVERY day...Would Haiti come to LA's rescue if there was an earthquake?....Prolly not...I'm fairly sure there's a kid with a bloody forehead in the US EVERY DAY that's not shown on the 10 o'clock news...

My 2 cents...

Haiti didn't, but Cuba gave us $1,000,000 for Hurricane Katrina. So did Venezuela. And Cuba was the FIRST country to offer.

You put the gloves down when someone is injured.

Edited to add: We didn't actually take the money from Cuba or Venezuela. Money wasn't really the issue.

[beer bacon]

Originally Posted by munkey

I don't understand this line of thought...there is really shitty stuff happening in our country EVERY day...Would Haiti come to LA's rescue if there was an earthquake?....Prolly not...I'm fairly sure there's a kid with a bloody forehead in the US EVERY DAY that's not shown on the 10 o'clock news...

My 2 cents...

I don't understand how you could be so ****ing stupid and heartless as to see millions of people living in suffering and think the solution is to kill all of them.

[beer bacon]

But hey, this is America. We put Bible verses on our guns. We make no ****ing sense.

[munkey]

Originally Posted by beer bacon

Argh, that country is full of death, destruction, and misery due to rampant poverty and corruption. Obviously, the solution is to nuke the entire ****ing island.

Not to defend Hog but why on earth are we spending our tax money to save them??? They produce NOTHING that benefits our country...They can't and won't pay us back...

Would you go to Haiti after reading the following?....

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/372/68/

Prolly not...unless you're just STUPID...

I love these stupid ass people blaming obama for not saving their children...good lord.

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/372/68/

[munkey]

Originally Posted by beer bacon

I don't understand how you could be so ****ing stupid and heartless as to see millions of people living in suffering and think the solution is to kill all of them.

I didn't say that...People die everyday...it's part of life. I don't want to foot the bill for a country that means absolutely nothing to me and never will. I'd rather feed and cloth our own...We have enough problems here at home...

I'm not stupid...it's just my opinion...Why don't you spend you're money and fly down there and help out if it's that important to you...

[Dante84]

My neighbor is a dickhead but that doesn't mean i wouldn't help him out if his house burned to the ground and killed some of/all of his family members and ruined everything he ever owned.