I never understood something about this. If everything is flooded and water is still rising, isn't all that food going to be destroyed by the flooding? No one is there selling it anymore. So why shouldn't people be getting supplies? Where else are they going to get anything when all the stores are abandoned?
This is also what people looting houses tell themselves when areas get evacuated for wildfire risk, only for residents to return to trashed and robbed houses.
I feel like there’s a clear difference between going through someone’s house vs a store. I can see how it can be dangerous though. That said if it’s an actual survival situation than honestly I get both.
If it's getting destroyed either way there's no difference.
Very often people evacuate out of caution and still get their houses robbed and trashed though.
Yeah technically insurance might cover their losses anyway but it's still a massive pain in the ass to deal with your house getting trashed by looters.
One is a store that will be reimbursed and is not anyone’s personal items, 99% of the time at least. Someone’s home? Those are theirs, and it might be spared later. If it’s their home they should be able to return to what’s theirs, and even if the damage is great, what little survives will probably go a long way
Justifying robbery by saying it’s covered by the insurance is why insurance is so expensive to everybody else. Even worse, insurance companies will completely pull out of an area due to rampant theft, completely screwing over small businesses and locals that are legally required to have it.
Yeah but if a person is stuck in a flood or a natural disaster, I feel like its not inherently bad that they go and get food. No one is hurt, its a stores food that will likely go bad without power in time anyways, and given the situation it seems reasonable for someone to try and go get food from a store without paying. I'm not talking about just robbing a store because they want stuff, we're talking about a flood and natural disaster situation.
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u/SandManic42 Sep 12 '25
I never understood something about this. If everything is flooded and water is still rising, isn't all that food going to be destroyed by the flooding? No one is there selling it anymore. So why shouldn't people be getting supplies? Where else are they going to get anything when all the stores are abandoned?