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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy "WTF?" of the day, Cajun Navy getting shot at?
Good Samaritans Cajun Navy dodges gunfire while trying to rescue Hurricane Harvey refugees
A famous group that organized during Hurricane Katrina came to Houston to help with Harvey rescues but not everyone is happy to see them.
In an interview with Headline News, Clyde Cain of the Louisana Cajun Navy told host Carol Costello that some of their freshly-arrived boats have been shot at by panicked Houstonians.
People that want to be rescued are trying to steal the boat, Cain said, to the surprise of host Costello.
Are these bad people or people who wanna be rescued? she asked him.
Bad people, people that wanna be rescued and people that are just panicking, Cain said.
The boats have incurred damage, he continued, because some people have shot at them.
We have boats being shot at if were not picking everybody up, he said.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/good-samaritans-cajun-navy-dodges-gunfire-while-trying-to-rescue-hurricane-harvey-refugees/
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My "WTF?" of the day, Cajun Navy getting shot at? (Original Post)
Archae
Aug 2017
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underpants
(182,879 posts)1. The Cajun Navy are good people
DK504
(3,847 posts)2. The eternal gratitude of Americans.
Freedomofspeech
(4,228 posts)3. I am so damn sick of the gun nuts.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)4. No shortage of assholes, even in a humanitarian crisis. nt
Skittles
(153,193 posts)5. gun humpers are already paranoid
add in some extra stress and it puts some of them over the edge
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)6. I was stationed down south when I was in the C.G.,
people would shoot at our boat.
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)8. But that was the Yankee Coast Guard.
lostnfound
(16,190 posts)7. Sounds fishy. Nt
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)9. That would scare me enough that I'd leave
These guys really are heroes.
Bucky
(54,068 posts)10. Welcome to Houston
*sigh*
tibbir
(1,170 posts)11. My only question is,
Why aren't other rescuers and the HUNDREDS of other people with rescue boats not being shot at? I don't know that much about the Cajun Navy but this just doesn't have the ring of truth. BTW, I'm a Houstonian and while I'm certain we have some hate groups, what's going on now doesn't involve many haters or it'd be all over the net.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)12. I'm not saying it's impossible but it does aound odd n/t
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)13. Don't really believe this story. I know it has went viral.
Quayblue
(1,045 posts)14. "Refugees"?
This is dog-whistling clickbait.
OBrien
(363 posts)15. It's bullshit. Stop spreading it.
Archae
(46,346 posts)16. Doesn't sound like bullshit to me.