First, my girl's hip-hop dance teacher. He told us he and a friend were robbed outside Bennigans at Kirby for gold chains and $$$ running shoes. They pistol whipped him; he had a nasty shiner the next day. Then a Serbian engineer I know got stuck up at Montrose and Lovett(?) on the street, gun in the ribs. Finally, my aunt who helps some elderly people each month on medical appointments was dragged a little in a purse snatch at the Kroger at OST and Almeda. All reported "evacuees" who "talked funny". That's interesting coming from 3 very different people I know. Still, media say there's no increase in crime related to evacuees. Anyone else have any stories?
these ungrateful evacuees p***ing me off... u'd think that kinda experience would humble them... come over here to start trouble... idiots
I haven't myself but I've heard and seen a lot of these problems on the news. Like that one elderly lady that was robed when she was letting a couple of guys stay in her place. Round em up....send em back.
That's scary. I'm sure these particular individuals were pulling the same kind of sh*t before they left N.O., and now they're Houston's problem. Right in the neighborhoods where I used to live. Looks like the experience didn't change them.
Kinda makes you wonder if Houston ever gets hit with a major disaster and a lot of Houstonians end up in another city what they'll be saying there. People always say stuff like this about refugees / evacuees. Europeans said the same thing about Bosnians, residents of Hong Kong said the same about Vietnamese boat people, during the potato famine Americans warned of waves of crime and disease from all of the Irish.
I haven't noticed any difference at all. Most of the reports of crime among New Orleans by the ecavuees were simply wrong. Also I think most of them have already left Houston. They have relocated all over the country, even in palces like Utah.
Do we know for sure that these were evacuees? All I know is that Houston was absolutely crime-free before Katrina.
pasox- That blows man. Especially about your aunt! I'd say 9 out of 10 evacs that I meet tell me they aren't going back home. As a matter of fact, I ran into one on Saturday and he JUST found the rest of his family a couple of days prior. It's not in the media any more, but for a lot, their path has just begun.
