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 |Zach|

I am sooo angry about something yet I don't know anything about it and I don't know why!

Argh!

I just want to punch someone over the Haiti thing.

You just can't admit this whole thing with me for you started over something I never said...that is funny.

[PRIEST]

Originally Posted by GoChiefs

Anderson Cooper has nice guns. He wears a shirt with short sleeves to show them off! What a sexy hero man!

Gunther is that you ( i know it has to be a kicker but still) I have some toilet paper for you to sign

[BigRedChief]

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.

Must be that agreement with the devil?

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

Correct! I'm sure they're still screwing like hell because they need more children running around they can't feed. It would be a real good time to drop a C-130 full of condoms.

Heh, that's something I don't really get myself. If you're dirt poor and miserable, why the hell would you have children when they're going to grow up dirt poor and miserable as well. Doesn't make any damn sense at all.

[alanm]

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.

Naw.. You'd take out the Dominican Republic. Compared to Haiti the Dominican Republic is Beverly Hills.

[bkkcoh]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

Heh, that's something I don't really get myself. If you're dirt poor and miserable, why the hell would you have children when they're going to grow up dirt poor and miserable as well. Doesn't make any damn sense at all.

But what other recreation can you afford to participate?

The act itself is relatively cheap, after the fact, not so cheap.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

Heh, that's something I don't really get myself. If you're dirt poor and miserable, why the hell would you have children when they're going to grow up dirt poor and miserable as well. Doesn't make any damn sense at all.

Most of the world's piss poor countries are the same. Been that way since the dawn of time when we got out of cave living and probably before then. They are poor. They have no access to birth control. I've spent some time with some really poor people. Talked to them about their lifes etc.

What can they do besides bonk? It's just a natural thing. You can't keep humans from bonking just because they are poor. And when you are using the pull out method for birth control...wellllll mistakes happen.

[Iowanian]

At least he ran towards, to and with the cameras rolling.

No one can blame someone for helping an injured kid, it is an instinct most normal people would have. I know several people who have and do go to Haiti for relief work, like building water treatment in rural areas. Glad they weren't there this past week.


that said, the last thing I'd want to do is touch very many random bloody people in Haiti, their HIV rate is through the roof.

[beer bacon]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Most of the world's piss poor countries are the same. Been that way since the dawn of time when we got out of cave living and probably before then. They are poor. They have no access to birth control. I've spent some time with some really poor people. Talked to them about their lifes etc.

What can they do besides bonk? It's just a natural thing. You can't keep humans from bonking just because they are poor. And when you are using the pull out method for birth control...wellllll mistakes happen.

Well, I just hope some helpful Christian missionaries are over there teaching them about the evils of condoms and other forms of birth control.

[ChiefJustice]

Hmmm.....I thought we had an entire forum dedicated to mudslinging slap-fest threads like this.

[KC Jones]

Originally Posted by beer bacon

Well, I just hope some helpful Christian missionaries are over there teaching them about the evils of condoms and other forms of birth control.

Had the same thought, not to mention the years we reduced/eliminated birth control from foreign aid because we wanted to install abstinence only programs.

[beer bacon]

Originally Posted by ChiefJustice

Hmmm.....I thought we had an entire forum dedicated to mudslinging slap-fest threads like this.

The whole website is like this, haven't you seen the Mecca and CoMo threads? We just usually manage to keep up a facade that it is about football most of the time :O

[ChiefJustice]

Originally Posted by beer bacon

The whole website is like this, haven't you seen the Mecca and CoMo threads? We just usually manage to keep up a facade that it is about football most of the time :O

No,I haven't seen those threads.


Nor do I wish to if they are anything like this one.

THAT IS EXACTLY WHY D.C. WAS CREATED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Not everyone on this board is here to argue and bitch about politics.


I just stay to read Simply Reds' latest tips on fashion and to get the weather report from Olathe.

[beer bacon]

Well I'm not here to read about Simply Reds' latest tips on fashion and the weather, and it is ruining my forum experience buddy!

[loochy]

If Cooper was a Chiefsplanet member, I'd rep him for this.

But yeah, this is seriously awesome and it helps erase the cowering puss reporter stereotype.