Evacuees Finally Get Much Delayed Booze and Strippers
After FEMAs painfully slow response, Katrina evacuees are just now getting access to much-needed booze and lap dances.
The Boston Herald is reporting that
On Oct. 5, the Herald observed a virtual parade of evacuees from a bus stop in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Falmouth to nearby liquor stores. Some emerged and openly swilled from brown-bagged containers, while others poured booze into jugs or plastic cups and casually sipped drinks at the Wal-Mart bus stop.
Herald reporters witnessed blatant public drinking at a Falmouth strip mall by Katrina victims living at taxpayer expense at Camp Edwards on Otis Air Force Base. And strippers at Zachary’s nightclub in Mashpee, a few miles from the Bourne base, report giving lap dances to several evacuees.
According to strippers, Katrina refugees were pretty good tippers.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued more than $1.5 billion to Katrina victims. That equates to about 75 million lap dances or 300 million six packs of beer. Is it any surprise that 4 out of 10 New Orleans refugees don’t want to return to the city? Would you?
hat tip: Camp Katrina
Update: Senior Administration Official and I were posting about the same thing at the same time. At least our editorial focus is in unison even if our coordination is not!
Update: Add drugs to the list of things these little debit cards will buy.
technorati: New Orleans Katrina evacuees
tracked back: Mudville Gazette Indepundent
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October 19th, 2005 at 2:09 am
For the record, drinking in public is part of the New Orleanian cultural heritage. I, for one, was shocked when I went to college out of state & found that in the rest of the country folks look at you funny if you sit on your front stoop & have a beer. (And, let’s be honest here: some of the folks who were evacuated in the aftermath of the storm have been drinking on the Fed’s dime for generations…)
October 19th, 2005 at 9:05 am
Notwithstanding the partying that goes on by visitors on Canal Street, perhaps this driking culture is a part of New Orlean’s chronic problems. It’s hard to get a job when you’ve been drinking all day and look like it.
October 19th, 2005 at 8:42 pm
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October 21st, 2005 at 11:39 am
Any truth to the rumor that Former President Bill Clinton is trying to get a couple of those debit cards for the weekend?
November 4th, 2005 at 5:12 am
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