American Story - Tourism in Misery - New Orleans

[ShaneGR]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/28/green.update/index.html

Snippets from the article:

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Every day, twice a day, the tourists come. They smile -- striking poses on the severed porch just yards from where Robert Green says Ditty died with his two kids strapped to his chest.

Tourists pay more than $40 for a tour that includes seeing this house in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans.

Seems that man thought he could save his babies from the 20-foot current that surged onto Tennessee Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, after a levee broke during Hurricane Katrina. But he couldn't.

Clean up crews found the three mummified bodies months later. The folks whipping out cameras likely don't know about Ditty. But Robert Green does. It's his street. Ditty was his neighbor. It's part of his story.

Two years ago, Robert Green and several of his family members told CNN.com how Katrina killed their matriarch, drowned a toddler, created a camp in a cemetery and launched a mother on a mission to save her son.

But he's back, and he won't leave. "I'm worse off than the day they died. If I didn't have such a good outlook on life, the only thing I could do with that $700 is dig a hole and shoot myself in the head," Green said. "But this is home. By hook or by crook, I will stay on Tennessee Street."

[Skittles]

1. what kind of sick people are these "tourists"?

what a disgrace