Snopes says this claim is false:
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin created a phantom force of 700 "virtual policemen."
Actually, that's only partially false:
1. Snopes only discusses a satire from azconservative.org entitled "Nagin Defends Use of ‘Phantom Police’", which I linked to on October 1, and which has a creation date of 9/30 at that site.
2. However, […]
Are hurricane evacuees spreading crime to the cities to which they've been evacuated, including committing felonies, bringing drugs, and forming gangs? Snopes examines a chain letter, and says it's not so.
Please put other examples relating to both the claim and attempts to downplay it in the comments.
Shocking! But false.
UPDATE: A 274 post DUmmie weighs in with "Concerned - People need to know: "Bush's fishing" photo a fake":
I'm no friend of the Bush's, but I'm a stickler for truth and accurracy.
I've been seeing the infamous photo of Bush Sr/Jr holding up a just-caught fish in the flooded streets of N.O.
…just about everywhere […]
Snopes says this is false:
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco refused President Bush's pleas to declare an emergency in Louisiana before Hurricane Katrina struck.
The timeline they provide… isn't in temporal order, so I've corrected the below (assuming they have their facts correct that is):
- On Friday (26 August), Governor Blanco did […]
By now you've already seen the well-known image of the flooded schoolbuses. A copy can be found in this Snopes entry. Here's a picture of a (different?) yard:
On August 30, Yahoo News printed two photos of people wading through water: the first of a black man with a garbage bag full of stuff he obtained by "looting", and the second of a white couple with bread and soda that they obtained by "finding" those items.
This trivial difference was immediately seized upon by […]
