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Check this out... http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/living-7/1174800565214070.xml&coll=1&thispage=1
glinda
03-26-2007, 12:57 PM
Great story, NOLA. What a hero, it will make a great movie.
Jeez, anybody who claims Katrina help wasn't racist. I mean, they get the black people off the roof and replace them with whites and suddenly they get some help????? Incredible. A brilliant and effective tactic.
ibjamn
03-26-2007, 01:12 PM
Amazing!
I see Denzel in that role, or maybe Forrest Whittaker....
Carolina Beadhead
03-26-2007, 01:19 PM
Amazing!
I see Denzel in that role, or maybe Forrest Whittaker....
Forrest Whittaker is EXACTLY who I visualized when I read it!
I pictured Dennis Haysbert when I read it, but any of the three of them would be great in the role. The story had special interest for me because I am living at the American Can right now.
FestNut
03-26-2007, 02:04 PM
"All the thugs were on the roof, so they wouldn't land there," Keller explains. "They were flying close to the building for days -- maybe 50 feet away. They would hover for a minute, read the message, then take off.
"I wouldn't have landed there either. Someone might have jumped on the helicopter with a gun and said, 'Fly me to Baton Rouge.' "
IMHO ... It was a case of "safety" for the rescuers. Didn't matter if they were purple.
Great story to pass along, NOLA, thanks.
McGregor
03-26-2007, 02:05 PM
amazing read, thanks for posting!
Zydekitten
03-26-2007, 02:18 PM
Sweet Cracker Sandwich!!! That's one hell of a story and would make a great movie!!!
I think the only guy to play Keller is Michael Clarke Duncan (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003817/)
ibjamn
03-26-2007, 02:22 PM
Sweet Cracker Sandwich!!! That's one hell of a story and would make a great movie!!!
I think the only guy to play Keller is Michael Clarke Duncan (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003817/)
OMG, I loved him in The Green Mile and he is HUGE!!
MormonMatthew
03-26-2007, 02:43 PM
Hey Now Frank, Matthew here.... Nice post, I can never fathom how bad things were during the storm. A true low point in our country's history. I am getting ready for Fest, though, and that always goes a LONG way towards getting my spirits flying high again. Look forward to catching up in person then. See you soon!!! MM
jhjpotter
03-26-2007, 02:59 PM
great read nola. quite a story. where do brangelina fit into the film? brad as the officer that gives him the shirt? angelina as the woman on the roof?
ibjamn
03-26-2007, 03:22 PM
brad as the officer that gives him the shirt? angelina as the woman on the roof?
Angelina as the pregnant lady.....Brad as Sean Penn walking thru waist deep water pulling other people to safety.
jolie
03-26-2007, 04:24 PM
"All the thugs were on the roof, so they wouldn't land there," Keller explains. "They were flying close to the building for days -- maybe 50 feet away. They would hover for a minute, read the message, then take off.
"I wouldn't have landed there either. Someone might have jumped on the helicopter with a gun and said, 'Fly me to Baton Rouge.' "
IMHO ... It was a case of "safety" for the rescuers. Didn't matter if they were purple.
Great story to pass along, NOLA, thanks.
Agreed..this was exactly at a time when there were a lot of stories that rescuers were indeed being shot at. Also at a time where rescuers hadn't even begun rescues in "white" neighborhoods (St. Bernard)
He goes on to tell of a situation were a "hoodlum" with AK47 tried to hijack his boat --and leaves you to ponder the outcome of that situation..hmmnnn?
It has all the makings of a great movie
great read nola. quite a story. where do brangelina fit into the film? brad as the officer that gives him the shirt? angelina as the woman on the roof?
I can see Brad as the dashing and brave young Coast Guard chopper pilot. Not quite sure what to do with Angelina! Mabye a nurse at the nearby hospital who brings medicine to the sick and elderly and has to talk her way past the thugs to get there....
How do you re-create all that damn water in the city, though?
breambob
03-26-2007, 06:42 PM
Thanks, NOLA. I bet there are dozens of stories like these. For all the bad that happened there was a lot of good and altruistic efforts in those first horrible days.
Someone should do a story on the Wildlife and Fisheries Dept. and their rescues, that was a stroke of genuis by Blanco (her only one, unfortunately).
pokerchick66
03-26-2007, 07:41 PM
"All the thugs were on the roof, so they wouldn't land there," Keller explains. "They were flying close to the building for days -- maybe 50 feet away. They would hover for a minute, read the message, then take off.
"I wouldn't have landed there either. Someone might have jumped on the helicopter with a gun and said, 'Fly me to Baton Rouge.' "
IMHO ... It was a case of "safety" for the rescuers. Didn't matter if they were purple.
Great story to pass along, NOLA, thanks.
I totally read it the same way you did, FestNut. I don't really think it was a racist thing, either. They saw they were thugs and didn't want to risk it. Keller said so himself that they were thugs.
I wonder when this is coming out. I definitely have to see this. Gonna be a GREAT movie! What a hero this guy was. God bless him and the Coast Guard, too.
pokerchick66
03-26-2007, 07:48 PM
Keller had good taste in alcohol, too. ;)
Belle
03-26-2007, 07:53 PM
Any playwrights among us? We could help edit the script and have our names in the rolling credits. Can't ya see it now...."Special thanks to the Threadheads for the casting and accurate or inaccurate embellishments".
breambob
03-26-2007, 08:43 PM
An overall rescue movie would be a blockbuster, IMO. The people like Keller. The police and sheriffs that stayed. The Coast Guard, LANG, and Navy, the W&F Dept., the cajuns and boatmen from all over that showed up. It was a valliant effort.
Because it's not politically expdient, many do not understand that it was the largest rescue mission in American history. It was a tremendous success.
In the first 24hrs. there were over 1200 rescues, one every 70 seconds. Lots of great stories.
Zydekitten
03-26-2007, 09:07 PM
Keller had good taste in alcohol, too. ;) Yeah, he did!! I wonder if Ibjamn noticed the Ketel One in the story! ;)
Zydekitten
03-26-2007, 09:08 PM
An overall rescue movie would be a blockbuster, IMO. The people like Keller. The police and sheriffs that stayed. The Coast Guard, LANG, and Navy, the W&F Dept., the cajuns and boatmen from all over that showed up. It was a valliant effort.
Because it's not politically expdient, many do not understand that it was the largest rescue mission in American history. It was a tremendous success.
In the first 24hrs. there were over 1200 rescues, one every 70 seconds. Lots of great stories.
Well, just as long as Ashton Kutcher isn't in THIS one . . . :D
ibjamn
03-26-2007, 09:21 PM
Yeah, he did!! I wonder if Ibjamn noticed the Ketel One in the story! ;)
I did & I lifted my glass to him! ;)
breambob
03-26-2007, 09:33 PM
Well, just as long as Ashton Kutcher isn't in THIS one . . . :D
BOTN, zk. Spewed my keyboard. Ashton should play the voice of the nutria king that gets squashed on I-10 in the animated version :)