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Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Tue 26 Feb 2008, 5:52 am

There has been a lot of flash-flooding in Queensland over the last few weeks, further north from us. Many families have had to abandon their homes and have returned to find that looters have broken in and stolen anything not water damaged. A few were caught on helicopter news cameras, though. Some people stoop really low Evil or Very Mad

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Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Tue 26 Feb 2008, 7:36 am

This is so terrible!!
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Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Tue 26 Feb 2008, 10:01 am

This is all so terrible. How can people take advantage of others suffering?

Pray for peace in our world.

Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Tue 26 Feb 2008, 12:07 pm

I feel for those flood victims, Skin....similar things go on during natural disasters here in the States....as well as with racial riots.....it seems that fear and greed seem to be used as justification for many people to behave badly when the daily law enforcement system breaks down because of disaster...so very sad...
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Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Tue 26 Feb 2008, 6:02 pm

I find it all totally disgusting. What kind of people take advantage of other's misfortune???
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Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Tue 26 Feb 2008, 7:35 pm

It gettting worse here in the states .. a food bank in Tn was robbed they took the food ...
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Gayla

"They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little."

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Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Wed 27 Feb 2008, 7:06 pm

Here is another trend....there was a man here whose home was in forclosure, so he set fire to it and took off, hoping to collect insurance on it or maybe just in spite, not sure....anyway a neighbor saw him leaving in a hurry and reported smoke coming from the house....supposedly arson investigators are busier than ever because more and more people are doing this....this is so disgusting to me....I sympathize with people going through forclosure but that in no way justifies putting your neighbors and the firefighters in danger...I just cannot comprehend this.....
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I saw this on the news...awful!

Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Wed 27 Feb 2008, 10:23 pm

I heard some more reports about the forclosure arson thing and even though there was discussion about how this kind of thing causes everyone's insurance rates to go up, I did not hear about the danger this puts others in....what does this say about priorities????
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Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Thu 28 Feb 2008, 8:31 am

I heard about people setting fire to their homes for the insurance. Don't these people understand with all the technology, fire investigators can find the cause of the fire? Not only do they lose their homes, they will be charged with arson. What is there to gain from doing this?

Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Thu 28 Feb 2008, 1:27 pm

We had a guy set his home on fire for the money but was caught,,,hes in prison now and the prperty was sold and a new home has been built back in its place.This all happened right before we bought our home.Neighbors said he was in debt and was going to lose his home,,well..you could say he got what was comming to him,,lost his home and has a new one,,,with bars on the windows!

Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Thu 28 Feb 2008, 1:28 pm

Oh my sweet Lord this is out of control this is so scary ..

Now when we should be taking care of each other not burning and going to the jail .
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Gayla

"They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little."

---Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Thu 28 Feb 2008, 5:56 pm

Desperation makes some people do very foolish things, I don't think some of them are thinking rationally, it's so sad.
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Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Thu 28 Feb 2008, 6:45 pm

No it does not make any sense, and you are right Sissy, today's technology makes it pretty easy to detect arson....what does going to jail prove...especially if children are involved??
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Subject: Re: I thought I had heard it all Fri 29 Feb 2008, 9:08 pm

Please don't get so upset ladies, all of these things happen, but so do good things that aren't reported on the news. Bad news sells merchandise, that's a fact that all news agencies know. Remember you are hearing news from all over the US and the world. Even when bad things happen in your neighborhood, how often do you hear about people helping that person, you don't very often, because it isn't sensational. So trust in God, but lock your doors.
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