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Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« on: September 15, 2008, 04:59:52 PM »
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Th1onein  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Mon Sep-15-08 04:20 PM
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Report from an friend in Galveston (insurance adjuster)
   
He says that they've closed the airspace over Bolivar Peninsula and Crystal Beach because THEY'VE FOUND OVER 900 BODIES FLOATING OUT THERE. AND THE MORGUE IS OVERFLOWING.

It turns out it was a friend of a friend that said it.   :whatever:

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jobycom  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Mon Sep-15-08 04:27 PM
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13. Sounds false to me. Is this a friend of yours, or a friend of a friend?
   
First, this exact same rumor was rampant during Katrina, and wasn't true. Second, there has been plenty of aerial footage over Crystal Beach and the Bolivar Peninsula, none showing bodies. Third, I doubt there were 900 people on Crystal Beach during the hurricane.

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Th1onein  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Mon Sep-15-08 04:31 PM
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It's not false. This guy was talking to THE guy who should know.
   
He's one of those guys who cleans up after disasters (not an insurance adjuster, duh); I can't remember what they call them. But he's been on the city council and his family is "old money" and he's very well placed. If I could tell you who he talked to, you would believe him, but if I did that, then I would be "outing" him as telling me and no one would give him any inside info anymore.

I'm sorry, but it's true.

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jobycom  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Mon Sep-15-08 04:42 PM
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30. Friend of a friend, then. Exactly the same rumors we saw after Katrina.
   
Ask your friend his name, he won't know it, he'll reveal it was the friend of someone else he knows, and on down.

It's okay, people fall for these rumors all the time. That's why they keep popping up over and over. You shouldn't spread them, though.

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Th1onein  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Mon Sep-15-08 04:47 PM
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38. I'm sorry, but you're wrong.
   
My friend is a city council member. He knows who to talk to. And he talked to THE guy who could give him the information. This is not a rumor. The morgue is full, over 900 dead and counting.

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io-solip  (64 posts)
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39. Sorry but that is BS. I've been talking to my neighbor who stayed in GLS on ham radio
   
Edited on Mon Sep-15-08 04:49 PM by io-solip
off and on all day. There is absolutely no legitimate information on floating bodies and overflowing morgues. STOP THAT SHIT.
edit: I'm posting from my brothers where we evacuated to last Friday (we brought out 2 people who wanted to leave...did not find anyone
else who did but was unable to)...GLS is Galveston, we live just east of the airport.

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Kristi1696  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
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45. And how exactly would your friend know?
   
Particularly when helicopters are restricted from filming the area and reporters are being shut out?

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Th1onein  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Mon Sep-15-08 04:54 PM
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52. Yeah, them ham radio enthusiasts would know.
   
Instead of the authorities whose job it is to know.

Yeah, right.

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49. If this was true, you would post your source. n/t

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65. We may have to wait 48 business hours.

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Th1onein  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
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66. If I tell you who my friend spoke with, he would never get info again.
   
I'm not going to do that.

He's a member of the city council and he spoke with a person in a position of authority, who would have every reason to know this information and no reason at all to lie to him.
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2008, 05:05:46 PM »
900 dumbasses who didn't want to leave are now floating lifeless in the gulf?  Oh well.  Maybe next time they will listen.  Meanwhile, life goes on. 
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2008, 05:06:57 PM »
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66. If I tell you who my friend spoke with, he would never get info again.
   
I'm not going to do that.

He's a member of the city council and he spoke with a person in a position of authority, who would have every reason to know this information and no reason at all to lie to him.

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Mon Sep-15-08 05:04 PM
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73. Your friend is on the CITY ****ING COUNCIL and has to consult with someone "in authority"??
   
Do you have any idea how totally stupid this claim makes you look?
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2008, 05:08:30 PM »
what an idiot (big surprise). There are flooded graves causing caskets to float. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080915/ap_on_re_us/ike_restless_dead

And 100,000 people didn't leave and are hampering relief efforts - http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080915/ts_csm/aike

While some 2.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana evacuated, more than 100,000 are estimated to have refused voluntary and mandatory evacuation orders along Ike's 200-mile surge zone.

Thankfully, there were few injury and fatality reports as the federal government led a massive rescue and relief effort that included Coast Guard reconnaissance helicopters, dozens of airboats, and massive National Guard assets ranging from inflatable Zodiac boats to Humvees, as well as thousands of troops.

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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2008, 05:11:30 PM »
If you google it, you can find links and information about a storm in 1900 where they had to stack bodies up in a makeshift morgue. Maybe she's off by a hundred years or so? :-)
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2008, 05:12:49 PM »
I haven`t read them because my BS tolerance has been a bit low the last few days but there have been at least a half dozen threads that sound like the DUmmies are trying to make up a "Katrina" story.
Claiming that folks are dead,abandoned...etc and that a mysterious cover up is under way.

They are so simple and obvious (except to themsleves) it is laughable
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2008, 05:15:11 PM »
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84. The source in Hancock County was the head of emergency management.
   
Friends of friends swore there a thousand bodies hanging from trees. There were stories of a thousand bodies floating in Lake Ponchartrain in Slidell, too, from other friends of friends who knew. Except that it was a lie.

Think about it for a minute. Honestly. There's no morgue in Crystal Beach that could hold a hundred, much less 900 bodies. To collect 900 bodies, not all of which would be intact, and take them to a morgue or morgues large enough to hold them, you'd need a thousand vehicles at least. Those vehicles couldn't even get into the area until today. Meanwhile, there have been flyovers since late Saturday, there have been people rescued from the peninsula and interviewed about what they saw--no one would mention this army of vehicles? No one would be describing the stench of almost a thousand rotting corpses?

And by the way, Crystal Beach doesn't have a city council. It's not even incorporated. So where is your friend a city councilmember from? And why is he talking to someone who will spread rumors on the Internet but not talking to the media?


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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2008, 05:21:45 PM »
 :rotf: :popcorn: You really can't make this stuff up! Maybe she can sit next to Joanne98 who's still waiting for shit/fan to meet.  :fuelfire:
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2008, 05:22:36 PM »
Her source is DUmmy lonestarnot, who will be doing a happy, happy, giddy dance, in capital letters of course, within the next 24 business hours.
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2008, 05:25:14 PM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on September 15, 2008, 05:21:45 PM
:rotf: :popcorn: You really can't make this stuff up! Maybe she can sit next to Joanne98 who's still waiting for shit/fan to meet.  :fuelfire:


And really isn't the destruction from Ike bad enough as it is?  You don't need to make crap up. She doesn't realize that she just looks like an idiot, as well and those that automatically believe this crap.
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2008, 05:25:31 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on September 15, 2008, 05:22:36 PM
Her source is DUmmy lonestarnot, who will be doing a happy, happy, giddy dance, in capital letters of course, within the next 24 business hours.
Crap, that's the DUmmie I meant instead of Joanne. :-)
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2008, 05:27:24 PM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on September 15, 2008, 05:25:31 PM
Quote from: GOBUCKS on September 15, 2008, 05:22:36 PM
Her source is DUmmy lonestarnot, who will be doing a happy, happy, giddy dance, in capital letters of course, within the next 24 business hours.
Crap, that's the DUmmie I meant instead of Joanne. :-)


But Joanne's a first rate nut too. :wink:
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2008, 05:28:46 PM »
I hope someone replies back to her and asks if lonestarnot is her "source".
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2008, 05:33:59 PM »
She is either lying or passing on a rumor to have something to make people notice her over.

I talked to someone who DOES know.


She needs to stick to trying to get her pen pal boyfriends on death row spared. 
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2008, 05:47:07 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on September 15, 2008, 05:05:46 PM
900 dumbasses who didn't want to leave are now floating lifeless in the gulf?  Oh well.  Maybe next time they will listen.  Meanwhile, life goes on. 

Well, THAT 900 wouldn't, if the whole thing was true in the first place.

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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2008, 05:50:43 PM »
I've said it before and God knows I will say it again but..... "Shit like this is why people should have jobs!"
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2008, 05:59:13 PM »
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Sep-15-08 06:40 PM
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136. I don't know who Skeletor is. But I believe my City Council friend
   
because he talked to the guy who, above all, should know what's happening down there.

And, yeah, I'm going to tell people, because it's the right thing to do. I understand that you want to know the source, and I'd be a fool if I asked you to believe me just because it's me. But you can also understand that I cannot reveal my source, because it would be detrimental to him.

I don't come on here and spout bullshit. Read my previous posts.

This has got to be one of the best lines ever posted by a DUmmie.
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2008, 06:03:50 PM »
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136. I don't know who Skeletor is. But I believe my City Council friend
   
because he talked to the guy who, above all, should know what's happening down there.

And, yeah, I'm going to tell people, because it's the right thing to do. I understand that you want to know the source, and I'd be a fool if I asked you to believe me just because it's me. But you can also understand that I cannot reveal my source, because it would be detrimental to him.

I don't come on here and spout bullshit. Read my previous posts.

This has got to be one of the best lines ever posted by a DUmmie.

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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2008, 06:05:56 PM »
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136. I don't know who Skeletor is. But I believe my City Council friend
   
because he talked to the guy who, above all, should know what's happening down there.

And, yeah, I'm going to tell people, because it's the right thing to do. I understand that you want to know the source, and I'd be a fool if I asked you to believe me just because it's me. But you can also understand that I cannot reveal my source, because it would be detrimental to him.

I don't come on here and spout bullshit. Read my previous posts.

This has got to be one of the best lines ever posted by a DUmmie.


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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2008, 06:08:47 PM »
     I have a question: suppose there ARE 900 bodies floating down there. Who gives a shit? These are people who could have left, but didn't. Why is it an outrage if people didn't do what they should have, and died as a result? Why would the government care about hiding that? Why is DU supposed to be whipped into a frenzy because of it? I don't get it.
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2008, 06:19:40 PM »
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I don't know who Skeletor is.



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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2008, 06:21:04 PM »
Quote from: BannedFromDU on September 15, 2008, 06:08:47 PM
    I have a question: suppose there ARE 900 bodies floating down there. Who gives a shit? These are people who could have left, but didn't. Why is it an outrage if people didn't do what they should have, and died as a result? Why would the government care about hiding that? Why is DU supposed to be whipped into a frenzy because of it? I don't get it.

In the mind of a DUmmie, if your a cokehead who willingly snorted 2lbs of coke, and died of a massive OD, then it's automatically Bush's fault.

Personally, I think that everyone of the people who called for a rescue should be billed for the cost of the rescue.  They where ordered to evacuate, ignored that order, then demanded that we come and rescue their ass.  **** them.

On the topic of how dumb the OP DUmmie is, this post made me giggle.

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143. Hello? Hello? Are the mods out there anywhere?
 Please read the rules of this forum. All of your posts are going to be deleted and your trolling days will be over soon, if you don't.

I just told you that there is no Crystal Beach City Council and that my friend is not a member of THAT city council. Is there something wrong with your ability to comprehend?

You are accusing me of something for which you have not a piece of evidence. Either that, or you are just really, really confused.  

Translation:  "MODS!  Save me, cause I've made myself look like a dumbass!"
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #22 on: September 15, 2008, 06:23:22 PM »
Quote from: BannedFromDU on September 15, 2008, 06:08:47 PM
    I have a question: suppose there ARE 900 bodies floating down there. Who gives a shit? These are people who could have left, but didn't. Why is it an outrage if people didn't do what they should have, and died as a result? Why would the government care about hiding that? Why is DU supposed to be whipped into a frenzy because of it? I don't get it.

Simply because they don`t give a rats ass about anyone who may or may not have died.
They consider Katrina a political "win" and nothing more so in their simple minds they think they can repeat that.
They are ghouls,wishing to feed on dead,real or fabricated for the hopes of political gain.
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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #23 on: September 15, 2008, 06:42:44 PM »
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I don't know who Skeletor is.



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No the other one.  :-)

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Re: Mass casualties in Galveston Rumor from Th1onein
« Reply #24 on: September 15, 2008, 06:44:50 PM »
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65. We may have to wait 48 business hours.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!  I love it when one of the DUmmies does that.

Of course, that could be a mole, too.

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66. If I tell you who my friend spoke with, he would never get info again.
   
I'm not going to do that.

He's a member of the city council and he spoke with a person in a position of authority, who would have every reason to know this information and no reason at all to lie to him.

"He's my super-duper top secret secret source."

Give it a few days and Th1onein will be bringing up Jeb's ice trucks.
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