Speaking of Hurricanes: Next time I won't help
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2 unrepentant about selling Katrina gift By WOODY BAIRD AP Writer
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A church that wanted to do something special for Hurricane Katrina victims gave a $75,000 house, free and clear, to a couple who said they were left homeless by the storm. But the couple turned around and sold the place without ever moving in, and went back to New Orleans.
"Take it up with God," an unrepentant Joshua Thompson told a TV reporter after it was learned that he and the woman he identified as his wife had flipped the home for $88,000.
The church was also shocked by an ungrateful interview the couple gave with WHBQ-TV in Memphis.
"I really don't like this area," said Delores Thompson. "I really didn't, and I didn't know anybody, so that's why I didn't move in and I sold it."
Thompson, reached at a New Orleans phone number by The Associated Press on Tuesday, thanked the church for its generosity but said she saw nothing wrong in selling the three-bedroom, two-bath house.
"Do I have any legal problems? What do you mean? The house was given to me," she said. "I have the paperwork and everything."
She refused further comment and hung up.
Let's see. NOLA sat on its collective ass, didn't plan, didn't evacuate, didn't insure, waited for the rest of us to bail them out, bitched and shot at those who did, lied about conditions there, blatantly stole federal funding to buy bling, stayed in high end hotels and apartments until forced to leave...the list of abuses is endless. Yes, I know the Feds could and should have done a better job, (Florida and Texas have lots of hurricane experience and seem to do a good job, hire them) but this story settled it for me. Never again. I want someone's ass in jail. I am never contributing another damn dime, simple as that. Have a nice day, assholes. As for the church, I believe there's are laws covering theft by deception and misrepresentation of status to achieve financial gain from a charitable source. Go for the criminal charges first, then get whatever's left in a civil suit.
2 unrepentant about selling Katrina gift By WOODY BAIRD AP Writer
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A church that wanted to do something special for Hurricane Katrina victims gave a $75,000 house, free and clear, to a couple who said they were left homeless by the storm. But the couple turned around and sold the place without ever moving in, and went back to New Orleans.
"Take it up with God," an unrepentant Joshua Thompson told a TV reporter after it was learned that he and the woman he identified as his wife had flipped the home for $88,000.
The church was also shocked by an ungrateful interview the couple gave with WHBQ-TV in Memphis.
"I really don't like this area," said Delores Thompson. "I really didn't, and I didn't know anybody, so that's why I didn't move in and I sold it."
Thompson, reached at a New Orleans phone number by The Associated Press on Tuesday, thanked the church for its generosity but said she saw nothing wrong in selling the three-bedroom, two-bath house.
"Do I have any legal problems? What do you mean? The house was given to me," she said. "I have the paperwork and everything."
She refused further comment and hung up.
Let's see. NOLA sat on its collective ass, didn't plan, didn't evacuate, didn't insure, waited for the rest of us to bail them out, bitched and shot at those who did, lied about conditions there, blatantly stole federal funding to buy bling, stayed in high end hotels and apartments until forced to leave...the list of abuses is endless. Yes, I know the Feds could and should have done a better job, (Florida and Texas have lots of hurricane experience and seem to do a good job, hire them) but this story settled it for me. Never again. I want someone's ass in jail. I am never contributing another damn dime, simple as that. Have a nice day, assholes. As for the church, I believe there's are laws covering theft by deception and misrepresentation of status to achieve financial gain from a charitable source. Go for the criminal charges first, then get whatever's left in a civil suit.
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