Friday, April 11, 2003

Anarchy is Fun

Ok, I am a horrible horrible person because the more I read this article, the more I laugh.
Some of this shit is hilarious:

Bands of looters also roaming the residential areas, casing homes to see if the residents were home. Journalists trying to talk to the looters were robbed of money and cameras.
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Looters carted off bottles of wine and whiskey, guns and paintings of half-naked women from the luxury home of Odai Hussein, Saddam's playboy son. They also picked clean his yacht and made off with some of the white Arabian horses he kept.
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Some people shot big grins at American soldiers and Marines or put down their prizes to offer a thumbs-up or a quick finger across the throat and a whispered word "Saddam" before grabbing their loot and vanishing.


Oh man, this article totally reminds me of State of Emergency, this PS2 game I used to play where you are dropped in the middle of a huge riot, in which hundreds of looters are running around smashing windows and carrying VCR's on their heads. And you can use a host of weapons like shotguns, swords, flamethrowers to decapitate, fry, electrocute bad guys. Of course, collateral damage is unavoidable and even entertaining at times.