DUKE, 2008: Duke fans could barely contain themselves after beating their dreaded rival North Carolina. When they got home, they started burning campus benches and mud wrestling in the middle of the quad. We have a hard time calling a bunch of snot-nosed kids whose parents pay $46,000 a year for college "rioters," they weren't scavenging for food after a great Earthquake.


UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2006: The University of Minnesota won the hockey national championship in ‘06, and their fans proceeded to turn Minneapolis into a replica of Baghdad by looting, burning and mooning innocent motorists. Once again, there's no disputing that hockey fans are the cream of the crop when it comes to sports riots, *snip*


UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, 2002 : The Maryland Terrapins won the 2002 NCAA basketball championship against Duke and, low and behold, a riot ensued. About 3,000 people marched up Route 1, looting and setting fires along the way.

New York Blackout, 1997 : Resulted in massive rioting and looting throughout the city of New York.

Rodney King riots, 1992 : Widespread looting occurred in Los Angeles, California. Some store owners guarded their stores with personal firearms


Hurricane Katrina, 2005 : There was massive looting by some people desperate for food, with police being accused of joining in in some cases. Many were in search of food and water that were not available to them through any other means, as well as non-essential items

American Civil War, the New York Draft Riots (July 13–17, 1863): It began as protests against President Abraham Lincoln's Enrollment Act of Conscription drafting men to fight in the ongoing war. Considered by some to be the worst civil unrest in American history, the riots included 50,000 participants and lasted several days, claiming hundreds of lives and destroying millions of dollars in property. The violent demonstration could not be contained by the civil police force, and required the intervention of regiments of the New York State Militia, who marched back to New York from the battlefield of Gettysburg, to restore civil order


A FEW NON-HAITIAN NOTABLES BELOW....

Iraq goes buck wild : After the United States occupied Iraq, the absence of Iraqi police and the reluctance of the US to act as a police force enabled looters to raid homes and businesses, especially in Baghdad, most notably the Iraqi National Museum. During the looting, many hospitals were stripped of nearly all supplies. Most notably the Iraqi National Museum was pillaged in which many curators had stored important artifacts in the vaults of Iraq's central bank. Looting also occurred on a grand scale at a number of archaeological sites across Iraq. Sites were allegedly being destroyed and objects removed numbering in the tens or hundreds of thousands.

Following the death of Valentinian III in 455, the Vandals invaded and extensively looted the city of Rome.

During the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997–98, looting occurred in many parts of Indonesia.


After the fall of Constantinople in 1204, the crusaders looted the city and transferred its richness to Italy.
After half a year of besieging the Protestant city during the Thirty Years War, the Roman Catholic troops of Imperial Field Marschal Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly committed the Sack of Magdeburg in 1631. Within the two to three days of pillaging, rape, and murder, Magdeburg's civilian population was reduced from 30,000 down to 5,000


During World War II, both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan engaged in massive and systematic looting of valuables worth tens of billions of dollars.

[edit on 18-1-2010 by Better Mouse Trap]

Mod Edit: Removed some less than savory wording...

[edit on 1/18/2010 by seagull]

And this thread means what? To compare all americans to this is a joke. If you wanted to start a star and flag fest you should have posted something really anti american......but, alas, you will get some people on here who agree with you. I guess we should take our classless selves and leave Haiti.....

[edit on 18-1-2010 by adifferentbreed]

First, it was the government was evil........here's proof threads. Next came, the Us military is evil......here's proof threads. Now it's all of the American people.......what's next, my dog?

Yes, your dog is Beelzebub....

I guess you missed the machete wielding groups going through the town and killing people for their stuff or the rioting.

People are people and thats probably not a good thing. When it comes to survival you will almost always get this.

Originally posted by adifferentbreed
And this thread means what? To compare all americans to this is a joke. If you wanted to start a star and flag fest you should have posted something really anti american......but, alas, you will get some people on here who agree with you. I guess we should take our classless selves and leave Haiti.....

[edit on 18-1-2010 by adifferentbreed]

Why is there such a large percentage of posters who have something against ATS or its community? Of course some people will agree! I, for one, am glad that not everyone feels the same about politics, race, religion e.c.t.

I actually think this could be an interesting premise and is not necessarily meant to be 'Anti-U.S.' but instead more of a psychological exploration of humanity going mad in the face of chaos.

Since the Haitian earthquake, I've noticed quite a few opinions being expressed that Haitians are a bunch of ignorant 3rd world citizens acting like animals in the face of adversity and disaster. However, even developed nations, including the U.S., have broken out in violent riots in many situations that aren't even limited to life or death scenarios.

So this isn't necessarily a piece of bait but perhaps an interesting look into the darker side of humanity and to show how the behavior of 'Haitians gone wild' is not as isolated as we may think.

[edit on 1/18/2010 by AshleyD]

Right now all I see is the media in the disaster area of Haiti watching the sick, injured, and dying. I am sure if they were to pan out the cameras a lil bit you would see all kind of stuff. Class act is what I would call all the people sending aid to that country. Lack of class would be the people in that country that hoard the resources daily to keep those people down.

I would have to say that the Haitians didn't impress me before the earthquake struck them. Nonexistent government, poor hungry people. Why is it that on the same island, you have the Dominican Republic without all of Haiti's problems? Not cool comparing the US and Haiti the way this thread has, IMO.

Wow the only thing I can say is DENY IGNORANCE! Therefore I deem you unworthy of my attention any further. Your ignorance is despicable! Just as someone else said...GO SPEW YOUR HATE SOMEWHERE ELSE!

Better Mouse Trap...Yeah Right

LifENcircleS

Originally posted by mahtoosacks
stealing coffins with SOMEONE ALREADY DEAD IN IT!

why go to all that trouble just to steal an empty coffin?