Well, it was called Humor, with a few accuracies.
Even pure fiction has a loose accuracy somewhere.
Anyway...
I keep hearing alot about looting "TVs vs. Food". Okay, I see the surface argument, but let's look a little deeper.
Say you've already hit the grocery store, and you have enough sustenance to last you and your family for six months. Say you've already hit the mall and the clothing stores, and stockpiled enough undies to get you thru next year.
But you have no shelter, and now, your place of employment has blown away.
You may have already heard the plight of Florida's victims already being told you that FEMA shelters are limited, and there's really no telling whether you'll be lucky enough to spend the next year (Yes, year - I live in SW FL and we have two very large FEMA parks here), in a two bedroom single wide with your entire family. You may have just have to resort to renting an RV and parking it next to the foundation that was once your house. (I know a family who had to do this, and they are finally moving back into the house - as of two weeks ago.)
So, you grab whatever you can in a panic, because once it all "blows over", so to speak, you might be able to sell that TV, DVD player... whatever... to make the monthly bill on your emergency housing.
What is the retail store going to do with it anyway, besides write it off as a loss, and collect insurance money?
Oh, and another question: Why the folks around here that had the big savings accounts so they didn't have to rely on the insurance companies (they had the cash to rebuild immediately) - bitching because the people in the FEMA parks are "still living rent free"?? No homes to move in to, mind you... but they're still supposed to be out "by now".
Think outside your TV, people.
