Katrina, again

[jack_ryder]

[from Boing Boing] Jabbor Gibson - hero or looter?

I'm saying hero.

Comments

[chrisbarnes.livejournal.com]

Heroic looter, perhaps? :-)

I can't help wondering: if he was white - say, a young pretty white woman - would the story instead be about a heroic young lady who commandeered a bus and saved her neighbourhood? Under the circumstances, it beggars belief that there's a chance he'll be in trouble for taking that bus.

I'm sure that sense will prevail, but it's just weird that they're even talking about the possibility he'll get into trouble.

[wintersheart.livejournal.com]

He should go to goal or be fined, plain and simple he broke the law.

Hero's put there saftey infront of others he endangered people by driving 7 hours into a situation "I just took the bus and drove all the way here...seven hours straight,' Gibson admitted. "I hadn't ever drove a bus."

No experience driving a bus what a loser he could of killed someone he was just lucky.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think taking a bus to rescue people makes you a looter in any way shape or form. Normally it would be breaking the law but these are extenuating circumstances (to say the least)

And it would have been different if the rescue operations were a little faster than they were. Then they wouldn't have needed the hero or the bus

Busjack Berko

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I think he was a hero. In some cases, breaking the law can be the only way to save lives.

If it was my neighbourhood, my friends my family, I would have done the same.