From the New York Daily News: Ever since Sandy strafed the Queens peninsula and tore up the boardwalk,
it’s become an often lawless place where cops are even scarcer than
electrical power and food. Locals say they are arming themselves with
guns, baseball bats, booby traps — even a bow and arrow — to defend
against looters.
Thugs have been masquerading as Long Island Power Authority (LIPA)
workers, knocking on doors in the dead of night. But locals say the real
workers have been nowhere in sight, causing at least one elected
official — who fears a descent into anarchy if help doesn’t arrive soon —
to call for the city to investigate the utility.
Further exacerbating desperate conditions, it could take at least a
month to repair the the bridge that connects the Rockaways to the city
subway system, officials said.
“We booby-trapped our door and keep a baseball bat beside our bed,”
said Danielle Harris, 34, rummaging through donated supplies as children
rode scooters along half-block chunk of the boardwalk that had marooned
into the middle of Beach 91st St.
“We heard gunshots for three nights in a row,” said Harris, who believed they came from the nearby housing projects....
And another local surfer said he has knives, a machete and a bow and
arrow on the ready. Gunshots and slow-rolling cars have become a common
fixture of the night since Hurricane Sandy.
“I would take a looter with a boa. If I felt threatened I would
definitely use it,” said Keone Singlehurst, 42. “Its like the Wild West.
A borderline lawless situation.”
But the idiot Mayor Bloomberg supposedly had enough cops to cover the NYC marathon and the NBA basketball game between the Knicks and the Heat but doesn't have enough cops to keep a neighborhood safe from looters.
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Not to mention NY has one of the toughest gun control laws in the US. If only those nice people could be armed legally to protect themselves from the illegally armed looters....
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