# Driving into Hell from NO resident
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**Created:** [September 2, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981 "2005-09-02T04:56:09Z")
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### Author:  [@POOPRA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/POOPRA)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/1 "2005-09-02T04:56:09Z")
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**Drove into HELL (New Orleans) last night… Sensitive types stay out**
Thought maybe some might enjoy my adventure…
First off I wanted to post what REALLY is going on in this city. Please don’t get this thread locked people. The news stations are only showing a minuscule of reality. This post may offend some people but I will post what I saw, like it or not it is REALITY.
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Well last night I was watching the 6pm news when they announced the 17th street canal pumps failed as well as another break in the levee. My house is right off St. Charles Ave. and up to 6pm yesterday is was the only part of the city that was dry. Since the pumps failed and the new break St. Charles Ave. would be under 9ft of water in the next 12-15hrs. My brother and I felt if we wanted to save anything we had to leave NOW. We loaded up flashlights, rope, our medical ID’s, both our .45 Glocks, 2 shotguns and rode out. En-route we listened to the radio which broad casted all the news about the looters and what not, in hindsight it was a mistake. My mother didn’t want us to go by dad who is a Vietnam vet told to be safe and “shoot to kill” if it ever comes to that.
One the way we had to pass 5-6 checkpoints to allow entry into the city. We stated we were medical personnel who were activated, showed our ID and off we went. On the radio reports were coming in about the officer who was shot in the head, the 2 gunman who opened fired on the NOPD station, and how looters were carjacking cars to get out of the city. This started making my brother nervous and giving seconds thoughts.
Anyway we get to the city and it looks like a freaking war zone. The best visual I can give is the movie “Blackhawk Down” when all the Somalians are rushing the city. They are people EVERYWHERE, they are pissed off, and all have weapons, 2X4’s, Axes, and guns. If this wasn’t bad enough we are 2 white boys in a truck in a sea several hundred armed pissed off blacks. There wasn’t a white person to be found. I couldn’t get over the little 8-10yr old kids with weapons, I ever saw one carry a claw hammer!
These people were absolutely nuts rammed trucks(stolen I’m sure) in to jewelry stores stealing items, they were tearing apart Wal-Mart carrying out TV’s, Playstations, DVD players, etc. One lady was wheeling out an entire rack of merchandise, not sure what it was but sure wasn’t clothes for food. They were all laughing and carrying on like it’s freaking Christmas.
We got stuck in traffic when we see the group of guys walking down the street w/ AK-47’s, at that point the “pucker factor” kicked in, a couple Glocks and shotguns were no match for that. We haul azz trying to get to Uptown when we see these people chopping down the front door w/ an axe of this $4-5 million dollar mansion on ST. Charles Ave. I was just in total awe because it was so surreal. Making matters worse it’s 11pm at night there is no electricity and you really can see anything or anyone until they are right up on you.
Our plan was to be in and out in 30min, this included putting his Harley on the trailer. It would have taken me 5-10min tops to get my stuff, all I wanted was my pictures from college, my clothes/shoes, and my computer tower. Well he got scared saying we are going to get jumped while putting the bike on the trailer. Keep in mind this is the only area in the city that is dry. So just like rats who move to higher ground these people were doing the same. Word must have gotten out that Uptown was dry so there started to be a large influx of people.
Needless to say he wanted to go home rather than take our chances. While it was the smart thing to do I was beyond infuriated w/ him because we made it this far. He just kept saying our lives aren’t worth it. So we turned around, our next challenge was getting out of the city while not getting jacked. Reports came out that people were jumping in the back of truck holding the drivers at gunpoint. Traffic started to slow so I just nailed it got out as fast as I could.
Even though he was the voice of reason I’m still pissed. All I have is my life and the clothes on my back. I lost my house(which is now 9ft underwater) ALL my clothes, TV, computer, furniture, and photo albums and videos from childhood and college. What makes this worse is my brother owned the house and I was a tenant and I didn’t have renters insurance, hindsight is 20/20.
I also hope everyone of the Fucking looters get Tetanus, E-Coli and F\*(KING drown. I’m serious I really hope the all die for what they were doing to the city, killing people, and destroying homes. Never in my life have I ever seen people act live savages, it was truly sicking.
Here is the _update_ thread I posted today…
Well I attempted fate again and went back to the city. Didn’t want to start a flame fest so I figured I’d post afterward. Most of you will not/do not understand WHY I went back but I think some will. This time we went in broad daylight and initially there was to be five but ended up three. We were armed w/ two pistols each(plus 2 back up) and each having 12-gague shot guns (Police/Military spec Remington 870). Once again we were force through 5 checkpoints had to show ID. At the last checkpoint the State Trooper asked “Are you carrying” to which we said yes and he then replied “Good, you may have to use them.”
Overall the Westbank of the city is pretty dry, surprisingly. We exited at Tchoupitoulas and it is right near the Superdome w/people everywhere. The road was clear and we didn’t stop. First we went to my buddy’s house on Magazine which was dry as a bone, no water what so ever. My bro and I set up a perimeter while Lance went inside to get his stuff. Heilo’s were everywhere, Coast Guard, local oil company, Huey’s and even Blackhawks. I’m outside and these two people pass pushing a shopping car and the women is staring at the gun. She said "Damn dat’s a big 'ole gun, I just smiled and shook my head “yes”. A truck full of National Guards pass by and when they saw us they cheered “Who Hoo” I’m assuming b/c the guns. What was frightening was they they didn’t have any guns! We finished there and went on to my house. I was pretty pumped because Lance’s house was dry and only a couple blocks down from mmine on the other side of St. Charles. Well my joy shortly faided when every street was covered with water and 200yr old oak branches. We turn the corner and see one of the famous historic New Orleans homes, I mean MANSION to be inhabited by a family who OBVIOUSLY did not live there. I mean this is easily a $5-6 million dollar home and these people are sitting on the porch, kids playing football in the yard, clothes strung out on the lawn. I just couldn’t believe it.
The closest I could get to the house without submerging the truck was 5 blocks,great. Water was up to my waist and I’m 5’10. At one point we had o “tightrope walk” across a cemetery wall because the water was so deep it was easily over our heads. As we are walking we are passing families sitting on the porch just watching us, I felt sorry for them. We finally make it to the house and there is about 4ft of water in front which is good because the house is 6ft off the ground. I was happy the house was dry and not looted. We check the house and it’s safe and we grab the bare essential, clothes, pictures, documents. I had to leave my new TV, computer, stereo, etc. Well I had about 50lbs in each hand which I soon learned was too much. I’m not weak by any means but carrying 80-100lbs that many blocksabove water was WORK!. Sadly we couldn’t get the Harley, but for now it is safe and dry. We gave the family on the porch a couple gallons of water from the truck on the way back.
Next we go to Lance’s GF’s house and while I’m outside making sure everything is cool a neighbor walks up w/ a sidearm and asked if the Military has arrived yet. I tell him about the troops that rode by earlier and he stated he’s shot at several people trying to loot neighbor’s houses and cars. He was out of 12 gauge buckshot so I gave him a box.
So we are loaded up and heading toward the bridge when we pass the Wal-Mart on Tchoupitoulas and see two soldiers guarding the store. We pull up to talk to him and I guess he saw the shotguns and he IMMEDIATELY drew his weapon. I’m still now certain what type of fully automatic rifle it was (no M16 or anything like that). Anyway we all put our hands up and ask him if it was safe to exit up ahead and if he needed anything like water, ammo, etc. He said “I’ll take all the ammo you can spare”. I asked if they are low already and he stated that in anticipation of the storm they sent all the weapons and ammo to Jackson,Ms and it flooded before they could get to them. So THAT is why none of the Guardsmen are carrying. We gave him all the ammo we had minus what was in our clips. So they ended up w/ around 5-6 boxes of buckshot and 150-200 rounds of hollow point .45
He then said 'Be careful up ahead they are rioting at the Superdome. Whatever you do DO NOT STOP. We leave and take the on ramp and infront of us is 200-300 people blocking the on ramp trying to get out of the city. We put out guns to the windows(they have been carjacking every car leaving the city) held the horn and never dropped below 15mph. People were moving away then rushing the truck but after seeing the guns they backed off. I really felt bad for some of those people because they looked tired and have a looong walk ahead of them but we weren’t taking any chances
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### Author:  [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/2 "2005-09-02T05:15:19Z")
I’m gonna start e-mailing this around
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### Author:  [@DJ\_X-StatiK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DJ_X-StatiK)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/3 "2005-09-02T05:29:20Z")
thats crazy…wow
i keep watching the news and its insane down there…
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### Author:  [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/4 "2005-09-02T05:35:27Z")
thats not so far from what i imagined was happening
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### Author:  [@SilencingMachine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SilencingMachine)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 5:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/5 "2005-09-02T05:36:16Z")
wow
just posted on two other forums…
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### Author:  [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/6 "2005-09-02T05:59:34Z")
Good God, gonna share this around as well.
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### Author:  [@Jskrapper](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jskrapper)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/7 "2005-09-02T06:07:22Z")
Such a colorful description of such a dismal scene. That is by far the most informative material I have seen.
Absolutley terribe.
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### Author:  [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/8 "2005-09-02T06:08:29Z")
SilverGTP told me that are not rioting in the Dome. They have cameras and crap in there and are surprised how calm it is.
Surely that guy didn’t g oto the dome, so how does he know?
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### Author:  [@Skurge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Skurge)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/9 "2005-09-02T06:11:02Z")
wow…the city is chaos, and no one can control it
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### Author:  [@duck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/duck)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 6:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/10 "2005-09-02T06:23:52Z")
> [@Skurge](#):
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> wow…the city is chaos, and no one can control it
why control it, when you can go on vacation? yeehaw
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### Author:  [@duck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/duck)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/11 "2005-09-02T06:25:40Z")
> [@Jack](#):
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> SilverGTP told me that are not rioting in the Dome. They have cameras and crap in there and are surprised how calm it is.
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> Surely that guy didn’t g oto the dome, so how does he know?
[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-superdome1sep01,0,4489032.story?coll=la-home-headlines](http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-superdome1sep01,0,4489032.story?coll=la-home-headlines)
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### Author:  [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/12 "2005-09-02T06:26:16Z")
Ok… there are def problems in the Dome. Jason is a liar 😛
> [@SilverGTP](#):
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> ok, I lied
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> NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) – At the front of the line, the weary refugees waded through ankle-deep water, grabbed a bottle of water from state troopers and happily hopped on buses that would deliver them from the horrendous conditions of the Superdome.
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> At the back end of the line, people jammed against police barricades in the rain. Refugees passed out and had to be lifted hand-over-hand overhead to medics. Pets were not allowed on the bus, and when a police officer confiscated a little boy’s dog, the child cried until he vomited. “Snowball, Snowball,” he cried.
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> The scene played out Thursday as the plodding procession out of the Superdome entered its second day – an evacuation that became more complicated as thousands more storm victims showed up at the arena.
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> Capt. John Pollard of the Texas Air Force National Guard said 20,000 people were in the dome when the evacuation efforts began. By Thursday afternoon, the number had swelled to about 30,000. Pollard said people poured into the Superdome because they believe it’s the best place to get a ride out of town.
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> The refugees began arriving Thursday at the Astrodome in Houston, where they got a shower, a hot meal and a cool place to sleep.
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> “I would rather have been in jail,” Janice Jones said in obvious relief at being out of the dome. “I’ve been in there seven days and I haven’t had a bath. They treated us like animals. Everybody is scared.”
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> Slow exodus
> Miranda Jones, her daughter, was standing next to her, carrying her father’s ashes – the only thing they were able to save from her house before Hurricane Katrina blasted New Orleans.
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> An angry Terry Ebbert, head of New Orleans’ emergency operations, watched the slow exodus from the Superdome and said the Federal Emergency Management Agency response was inadequate. The chaos at the nearby New Orleans Convention Center was considerably more hostile than the Superdome, with few options for refugees to leave the scene.
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> “This is a national disgrace. FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control,” Ebbert said. “We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can’t bail out the city of New Orleans.”
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> After a day in line in the heat without water or food, dozens of people fell out. Medics poured water on them, fanned them, and tried to cool them down.
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> One woman, lying on a canvas cot, was in convulsions. Medics doused her with water and slapped her, trying to bring her around. A National Guardsman poured water on a baby he held while water was also poured on her mother.
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> Meanwhile the crowd kept growing as stranded people heard about the buses and headed to the dome.
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> By early afternoon, a line of people a half-mile long snaked from the Superdome through the nearby Hyatt Regency Hotel, then to where buses waited. State troopers, making every effort to be cheerful, handed out bottles of water and tried to keep families and groups together.
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> “I need three,” a burly state trooper called out. “I need four.”
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> At one point, the guards held up the line so a young teen at the front could go get her sister, farther back.
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> The situation in the back of the line was vastly different.
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> National Guardsmen stood side by side with rifles. Luggage, bags of clothes, pillows, blankets were strewn in the puddles.
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> Waiting for a ride to Houston
> After a teenager was taken away by police for fighting, Capt. John Pallerre of the Texas Air Force National Guard told the crowd on public address: “We can’t have people fighting. I have kids here who are crying and frightened and can’t find their parents. Be adults. We’re going to get you out of here. It takes a while. I’m not god. If I was, you’d all be home with your family.”
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> At one point a man held a tiny baby high over his head. A woman pointed to an elderly man in a wheelchair – hoping to get the attention of National Guard troops who were taking the old and infirm to buses first.
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> A woman in tank top and shorts, her teeth chattering, was taken from the sea of people and into the line heading through a shopping mall and conference center and back out to buses waiting blocks from the dome. She cuddled her baby, who wore only a diaper.
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> While refugees waited for a ride to Houston, the air ambulance service in charge of taking the sick and injured from the Superdome suspended flights after a shot was reported fired at a military helicopter.
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> After a traffic jam kept buses from arriving at the Superdome for nearly four hours, a near-riot broke out in the scramble to get on the buses that finally showed up. A fire erupted in a trash chute inside the dome, but it did not affect the evacuation.
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> The Astrodome’s new residents will be issued passes that will let them leave and return as they please, something that wasn’t permitted in New Orleans. Organizers also plan to find ways to help the refugees contact relatives.
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> Besides the 25,000 or so hurricane refugees being brought to Houston, officials said another 25,000 would be taken to San Antonio and other locations.
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### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 6:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/13 "2005-09-02T06:31:57Z")
Wow, awesome…
I mean, it’s so horrible, but it’s so good to hear it from a regular person.
But he’s no regular person, he has balls…
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### Author:  [@intense98rt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/intense98rt)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/14 "2005-09-02T06:34:04Z")
i havent been watching the news or anything… but after reading this, it sounds like some made up story… thats crazy that its actually happening
> I also hope everyone of the Fucking looters get Tetanus, E-Coli and F\*(KING drown. I’m serious I really hope the all die for what they were doing to the city, killing people, and destroying homes. Never in my life have I ever seen people act live savages, it was truly sicking.
:word:
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/15 "2005-09-02T06:34:05Z")
wow… resident evil like action going on down there…
kind of like dawn of the dead too
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### Author:  [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/16 "2005-09-02T06:38:26Z")
This is like some Resident Evil or Dawn of the Dead crap, stupid scary
I must say and feel free to flame away. . .
It is times like these that brings out the true nature of people. During 9/11 there was none of this, only people helping people anyway they could. They could have looted NYC and rioted and all of this other stuff, but there was barely a wisper of that.
Look at this situation and this is the nature of the beast here, sorry but this is a HUGE black eye for everyone involved in this tradgedy. The government, the police and ESPECIALLY the victims. There are those that are stuck and want nothing more to escape this hell, but then there are those who make matters far worse for everyone else, and in this case it is a rather large group.
You would not see anyone taking sniper shots at a hospital, or shooting at helis trying to save people. You wouldn’t have multiple murders and rapes and violence night after night, but for these type of people.
Edit: :lol: at krazys comments! :tup:
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### Author:  [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/17 "2005-09-02T06:47:12Z")
9/11 was business based people, with lives, and common sense. The group retaliating here… is not the same.
Also that building was very centralized… of course it was in the middle of NYC… but it didn’t flood NYC.
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### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/18 "2005-09-02T06:51:09Z")
> [@Jack](#):
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> 9/11 was business based people, with lives, and common sense. The group retaliating here… is not the same.
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> Also that building was very centralized… of course it was in the middle of NYC… but it didn’t flood NYC.
but it probably involved more people…
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### Author:  [@Deuce](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Deuce)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/19 "2005-09-02T07:24:33Z")
Thats an amazing story to read, its nice to hear it from a aregular citizens perspective. I wish him the best becuase he’s a real man
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### Author:  [@JDMR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDMR2)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-into-hell-from-no-resident/1981/20 "2005-09-02T07:50:35Z")
> [@Sleepy](#):
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> But he’s no regular person, he has balls…
:word
mufukka wants his shit back and is not letting looters get to it first
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