OT:Law Firm Associates Getting SLAUGHTERED…

[Coronita]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Partypup: Well written, cogent post. The problem here is the readers go from “complete normalcy” to “Mad Max” in one sudden movement. I agree with your assessment as to the unlikelihood of that situation and I would point readers to the LA Riots of 1992 or Hurricane Katrina in terms of how quickly the wheels can come off the wagon.

I was here during the Fallbrook/Rice Canyon Fire and chose to stay rather than evacuate. I recall having a Marine Humvee patrolling my neighborhood with a gunner up top behind a loaded .50cal. I can also recall having coffee at the nearly deserted Starbucks with a CHP officer and a SD Sheriff, both of whom told me to shoot first and ask questions later as far as encountering anyone I didn’t know in my neighborhood. I live in a quiet cul-de-sac near downtown Fallbrook and I’m not out in the sticks. The Sheriff was blunt in terms of local law enforcement being “stretched thin” and having to ask Camp Pendleton for help in maintaining order and preventing looters. Their handling of the evac was exemplary and the locals were orderly and well behaved and it still stretched their resources to the limit.

I remember watching news footage of LAPD’s handling of South Central during the LA Riots in 1992 and realizing that they had completely ceded control to the mob. It doesn’t take much to get there. The idea that the police and the National Guard are capable of handling widespread civil unrest and rioting is simply not true.

I hope things don’t get sideways, but it seems prudent to be prepared for them if they do.[/quote]

During the LA riots, the stores/homes that didn’t get looted where the ones for which owners and neighbhors were sitting on the roof with guns drawn or the folks that paid a private police force. In my neck of the woods, it was simple. The private police force sealed off the all entrances and exits entering and leaving the area, additional private security forces paid by select residence was drop lifted to backup the private police and guard personal property, and and a few residence brought their guns to camp outside their homes.

Don’t worry, I hear Blackwater is looking for employment/contract opportunities. I hear if you point them in the general direction of the riot area, they do their best at shooting at random targets.

[Ricechex]

[quote=partypup]Will this mean that you can’t get your hands on a bag of rice in the event of a collapse? Of course not. But you’ll be fighting with other hungry and impatient folks at Ralphs who want the same thing, and the rice is going to be a LOT more expensive. Do you like crowds, Breezy? [/quote]

Breeze, seriously, have you ever shopped at the Albertsons in City Heights? It is really chaotic EVERY day. The workers refer to it as “the jungle.” People already live like this, and they can still access food. Once I watched a guy walk out of the store with several bags of food, and the workers were running after him yelling that he was a thief. Ummm, that’s it, nothing else happenned. I live in North Park, but shop in Clairemont because the chaos, disruption, disrespect is too unpleasant.

City Heights is the ghetto, but when push comes to shove, even the fabulous groceries in Temecula (I love them so!) will go ghetto when crisis arises. Don’t think it won’t affect the suburbs, it will actually be worse, because ghetto residents are already used to living in perpetual crisis, but suburbia won’t know how to cope. They will be in a panic and buying up the store, and they will not be deterred. Sheesh, people get trampled to death on Black Friday. And, that is just for a sale on some item they don’t really need.

So, yes, you will be fighting with a soccer mom’s husband over a can of soup. Obama won’t help you. Better safe than sorry.

[Ricechex]

[quote=partypup]Will this mean that you can’t get your hands on a bag of rice in the event of a collapse? Of course not. But you’ll be fighting with other hungry and impatient folks at Ralphs who want the same thing, and the rice is going to be a LOT more expensive. Do you like crowds, Breezy? [/quote]

Breeze, seriously, have you ever shopped at the Albertsons in City Heights? It is really chaotic EVERY day. The workers refer to it as “the jungle.” People already live like this, and they can still access food. Once I watched a guy walk out of the store with several bags of food, and the workers were running after him yelling that he was a thief. Ummm, that’s it, nothing else happenned. I live in North Park, but shop in Clairemont because the chaos, disruption, disrespect is too unpleasant.

City Heights is the ghetto, but when push comes to shove, even the fabulous groceries in Temecula (I love them so!) will go ghetto when crisis arises. Don’t think it won’t affect the suburbs, it will actually be worse, because ghetto residents are already used to living in perpetual crisis, but suburbia won’t know how to cope. They will be in a panic and buying up the store, and they will not be deterred. Sheesh, people get trampled to death on Black Friday. And, that is just for a sale on some item they don’t really need.

So, yes, you will be fighting with a soccer mom’s husband over a can of soup. Obama won’t help you. Better safe than sorry.

[Ricechex]

[quote=partypup]Will this mean that you can’t get your hands on a bag of rice in the event of a collapse? Of course not. But you’ll be fighting with other hungry and impatient folks at Ralphs who want the same thing, and the rice is going to be a LOT more expensive. Do you like crowds, Breezy? [/quote]

Breeze, seriously, have you ever shopped at the Albertsons in City Heights? It is really chaotic EVERY day. The workers refer to it as “the jungle.” People already live like this, and they can still access food. Once I watched a guy walk out of the store with several bags of food, and the workers were running after him yelling that he was a thief. Ummm, that’s it, nothing else happenned. I live in North Park, but shop in Clairemont because the chaos, disruption, disrespect is too unpleasant.

City Heights is the ghetto, but when push comes to shove, even the fabulous groceries in Temecula (I love them so!) will go ghetto when crisis arises. Don’t think it won’t affect the suburbs, it will actually be worse, because ghetto residents are already used to living in perpetual crisis, but suburbia won’t know how to cope. They will be in a panic and buying up the store, and they will not be deterred. Sheesh, people get trampled to death on Black Friday. And, that is just for a sale on some item they don’t really need.

So, yes, you will be fighting with a soccer mom’s husband over a can of soup. Obama won’t help you. Better safe than sorry.

[Ricechex]

[quote=partypup]Will this mean that you can’t get your hands on a bag of rice in the event of a collapse? Of course not. But you’ll be fighting with other hungry and impatient folks at Ralphs who want the same thing, and the rice is going to be a LOT more expensive. Do you like crowds, Breezy? [/quote]

Breeze, seriously, have you ever shopped at the Albertsons in City Heights? It is really chaotic EVERY day. The workers refer to it as “the jungle.” People already live like this, and they can still access food. Once I watched a guy walk out of the store with several bags of food, and the workers were running after him yelling that he was a thief. Ummm, that’s it, nothing else happenned. I live in North Park, but shop in Clairemont because the chaos, disruption, disrespect is too unpleasant.

City Heights is the ghetto, but when push comes to shove, even the fabulous groceries in Temecula (I love them so!) will go ghetto when crisis arises. Don’t think it won’t affect the suburbs, it will actually be worse, because ghetto residents are already used to living in perpetual crisis, but suburbia won’t know how to cope. They will be in a panic and buying up the store, and they will not be deterred. Sheesh, people get trampled to death on Black Friday. And, that is just for a sale on some item they don’t really need.

So, yes, you will be fighting with a soccer mom’s husband over a can of soup. Obama won’t help you. Better safe than sorry.

[Ricechex]

[quote=partypup]Will this mean that you can’t get your hands on a bag of rice in the event of a collapse? Of course not. But you’ll be fighting with other hungry and impatient folks at Ralphs who want the same thing, and the rice is going to be a LOT more expensive. Do you like crowds, Breezy? [/quote]

Breeze, seriously, have you ever shopped at the Albertsons in City Heights? It is really chaotic EVERY day. The workers refer to it as “the jungle.” People already live like this, and they can still access food. Once I watched a guy walk out of the store with several bags of food, and the workers were running after him yelling that he was a thief. Ummm, that’s it, nothing else happenned. I live in North Park, but shop in Clairemont because the chaos, disruption, disrespect is too unpleasant.

City Heights is the ghetto, but when push comes to shove, even the fabulous groceries in Temecula (I love them so!) will go ghetto when crisis arises. Don’t think it won’t affect the suburbs, it will actually be worse, because ghetto residents are already used to living in perpetual crisis, but suburbia won’t know how to cope. They will be in a panic and buying up the store, and they will not be deterred. Sheesh, people get trampled to death on Black Friday. And, that is just for a sale on some item they don’t really need.

So, yes, you will be fighting with a soccer mom’s husband over a can of soup. Obama won’t help you. Better safe than sorry.

[Zeitgeist]

Pup- I think the small farm sounds nice. I know you are smart and a superb survivor. I hope you have some like minded people on your side because as we all know, you have to sleep some time. In the meantime, don’t leave behind your books including poetry: “Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!”

“There, where the state ceaseth–there only commenceth the man who is not superfluous: there commenceth the song of the necessary ones, the single and irreplaceable melody.”

“There, where the state CEASETH–pray look thither, my brethren! Do ye not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the Superman?–”

Thus spake Zarathustra.

[Zeitgeist]

Pup- I think the small farm sounds nice. I know you are smart and a superb survivor. I hope you have some like minded people on your side because as we all know, you have to sleep some time. In the meantime, don’t leave behind your books including poetry: “Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!”

“There, where the state ceaseth–there only commenceth the man who is not superfluous: there commenceth the song of the necessary ones, the single and irreplaceable melody.”

“There, where the state CEASETH–pray look thither, my brethren! Do ye not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the Superman?–”

Thus spake Zarathustra.

[Zeitgeist]

Pup- I think the small farm sounds nice. I know you are smart and a superb survivor. I hope you have some like minded people on your side because as we all know, you have to sleep some time. In the meantime, don’t leave behind your books including poetry: “Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!”

“There, where the state ceaseth–there only commenceth the man who is not superfluous: there commenceth the song of the necessary ones, the single and irreplaceable melody.”

“There, where the state CEASETH–pray look thither, my brethren! Do ye not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the Superman?–”

Thus spake Zarathustra.

[Zeitgeist]

Pup- I think the small farm sounds nice. I know you are smart and a superb survivor. I hope you have some like minded people on your side because as we all know, you have to sleep some time. In the meantime, don’t leave behind your books including poetry: “Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!”

“There, where the state ceaseth–there only commenceth the man who is not superfluous: there commenceth the song of the necessary ones, the single and irreplaceable melody.”

“There, where the state CEASETH–pray look thither, my brethren! Do ye not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the Superman?–”

Thus spake Zarathustra.

[Zeitgeist]

Pup- I think the small farm sounds nice. I know you are smart and a superb survivor. I hope you have some like minded people on your side because as we all know, you have to sleep some time. In the meantime, don’t leave behind your books including poetry: “Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!”

“There, where the state ceaseth–there only commenceth the man who is not superfluous: there commenceth the song of the necessary ones, the single and irreplaceable melody.”

“There, where the state CEASETH–pray look thither, my brethren! Do ye not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the Superman?–”

Thus spake Zarathustra.

[TheBreeze]

[quote=Ricechex]
Breeze, seriously, have you ever shopped at the Albertsons in City Heights? It is really chaotic EVERY day. The workers refer to it as “the jungle.” People already live like this, and they can still access food. Once I watched a guy walk out of the store with several bags of food, and the workers were running after him yelling that he was a thief. Ummm, that’s it, nothing else happenned. I live in North Park, but shop in Clairemont because the chaos, disruption, disrespect is too unpleasant.
[/quote]

I tend to shop at the most expensive grocery stores I can find so that I don’t have to deal with the riff-raff. And shopping at a crowded grocery store is in no way equivalent to fighting over the last scrap of food because the “trucks are no longer running”.

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[TheBreeze]

[quote=Ricechex]
Breeze, seriously, have you ever shopped at the Albertsons in City Heights? It is really chaotic EVERY day. The workers refer to it as “the jungle.” People already live like this, and they can still access food. Once I watched a guy walk out of the store with several bags of food, and the workers were running after him yelling that he was a thief. Ummm, that’s it, nothing else happenned. I live in North Park, but shop in Clairemont because the chaos, disruption, disrespect is too unpleasant.
[/quote]

I tend to shop at the most expensive grocery stores I can find so that I don’t have to deal with the riff-raff. And shopping at a crowded grocery store is in no way equivalent to fighting over the last scrap of food because the “trucks are no longer running”.

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[TheBreeze]

[quote=Ricechex]
Breeze, seriously, have you ever shopped at the Albertsons in City Heights? It is really chaotic EVERY day. The workers refer to it as “the jungle.” People already live like this, and they can still access food. Once I watched a guy walk out of the store with several bags of food, and the workers were running after him yelling that he was a thief. Ummm, that’s it, nothing else happenned. I live in North Park, but shop in Clairemont because the chaos, disruption, disrespect is too unpleasant.
[/quote]

I tend to shop at the most expensive grocery stores I can find so that I don’t have to deal with the riff-raff. And shopping at a crowded grocery store is in no way equivalent to fighting over the last scrap of food because the “trucks are no longer running”.

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[TheBreeze]

[quote=Ricechex]
Breeze, seriously, have you ever shopped at the Albertsons in City Heights? It is really chaotic EVERY day. The workers refer to it as “the jungle.” People already live like this, and they can still access food. Once I watched a guy walk out of the store with several bags of food, and the workers were running after him yelling that he was a thief. Ummm, that’s it, nothing else happenned. I live in North Park, but shop in Clairemont because the chaos, disruption, disrespect is too unpleasant.
[/quote]

I tend to shop at the most expensive grocery stores I can find so that I don’t have to deal with the riff-raff. And shopping at a crowded grocery store is in no way equivalent to fighting over the last scrap of food because the “trucks are no longer running”.

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