I've been wondering that as well. There were some nasty reports from thailand of child kidnapping at the time, but they were very isolated. I certainly don't remember armed gangs roaming the streets pillaging and raping, and there was fairly intensive news coverage at the time.
Some of it could be anger at being so suddenly abandoned in horrific conditions in what is supposed to be the wealthiest country in the world; at being *told* to go the dome and ending up in the midst of sweltering heat, dead bodies and human waste with no food or water for days and no-one coming to help. Some of it is mostly likely mob mentality - if even the COPS are looting, why not join in? Some of it is, of course, basic survival.
But that doesn't explain all of it.
The level of savagery and the suddeness of the descent into chaos are the really frightening things though and it is something I don't thing we've seen elsewhere. There seems to be a huge lack of communication. I've seen several times people *wanting* to offer rooms or other help but have no information on how do to it.
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Date: 2005-09-02 11:02 am (UTC)Some of it could be anger at being so suddenly abandoned in horrific conditions in what is supposed to be the wealthiest country in the world; at being *told* to go the dome and ending up in the midst of sweltering heat, dead bodies and human waste with no food or water for days and no-one coming to help.
Some of it is mostly likely mob mentality - if even the COPS are looting, why not join in? Some of it is, of course, basic survival.
But that doesn't explain all of it.
The level of savagery and the suddeness of the descent into chaos are the really frightening things though and it is something I don't thing we've seen elsewhere.
There seems to be a huge lack of communication. I've seen several times people *wanting* to offer rooms or other help but have no information on how do to it.