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Depriving a person of the ability to save his own life carries a tremendous moral burden. If this is true, add me to the appalled list.
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I honestly don't know what to say, but I will hold final judgement until another source reports the story.
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I just really hope this isn't true, or is an exaggeration. Because if it is true, I've just lost a little bit more faith in the human race. And I've lost quite a bit of it already, lately. I can't use to lose too much more.
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quote:The women were on the roof of the hotel, calling for help as floodwaters rose. Then a motorboat full of police officers came by. ''Can you help us?'' the women cried. The police officers replied, ''Show us what you've got!'' and motioned for them to lift their T-shirts.
The women said no. The police officers left them there.
I figured that story for an urban legend when one of my students wrote about it in a class I teach. Too crazy to be true, I thought.
But the tale turns out to be a witness account from Ged Scott, a bus driver from suburban Liverpool, England, who, with his wife and son, was on vacation in New Orleans when that city was swamped by Hurricane Katrina. Scott's story has received considerable play in British newspapers; as near as I can tell, it has not been picked up stateside.
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