Looting And Lawlessness Breaks Out After Irma Barrels Through St. Maarten – IOTW Report

Looting And Lawlessness Breaks Out After Irma Barrels Through St. Maarten

DC: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Saturday that the citizens of St. Maarten have resorted to widespread looting after Hurricane Irma arrived and destroyed nearly the entire island.

About 230 Dutch troops and police are already patrolling the small Caribbean island and another 200 will arrive shortly, Rutte told reporters. He issued a warning that government officials intend on using military troops and police to stamp out pockets of lawlessness.

The Dutch government estimates that Hurricane Irma, which is currently plotting a course for the western coast of Florida, either completely destroyed or badly damaged nearly 70 percent of houses on St. Maarten.  more here

13 Comments on Looting And Lawlessness Breaks Out After Irma Barrels Through St. Maarten

  1. “…resorted to looting”. My ass, they didn’t “resort” to anything. It’s thieves taking advantage of circumstances.

    You ‘resort’ to drinking puddle water, you ‘resort’ to making a shelter from found materials. You loot because you are a lowlife.

  2. Know a guy was in the Army when the kerfluffel in Panama went down. Panama City. Out and about downtown during the hoorah. Saw a guy coming out of the shattered glass front of a bicycle shop with a new bike over his shoulder. Put a rifle round into the wall right in front of his head.

    Guy stealing the bike says, “I’m hungry”.

    Guy I know says, “Eat it, or drop it”.

  3. gosh and my wife used to ask me all the time why I was leery of black people-gang bagger Mexicans-low life whites- I will need to remind her when I see her in the great by and by that she went to.

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