Dead Orleans : "Show Us Your Tits And We'll Rescue You"

By Darryl Mason

British tourists now back home have told sickening stories of rescuers snapping ‘souvenir’ photos and telling young women to expose their breasts if they want to be rescued.

Talking to the BBC, survivors Sandra and Ged Scott of Liverpool, England, explained how young girls standing on the roof of a hotel were told "Show us what you’ve got", as rescuers signalled them to lift up their t-shirts. When the girls said no the rescuers moved on.

"That's the sort of help we had from the authorities," said Scott.

The tourists knew nothing of the tragedy unfolding in the city, their only means of communications was shouting questions to police passing by the hotel in boats.

"The only information we ever got off them was negative, 'Do not go here. Do not go there'. There was no, 'Are you OK? Are you safe? Have you got water?' Most of the time they would ignore us."

The police presence vanished at night and the hotel guests were left to defend themselves as gunfire exploded across the blacked out city.

Like other survivors Scott told of having blockade doors and of bodies floating by. Looters arrived to try and sell the tourists radios, clothing and phones.

They were rescued by Louisiana game wardens, armed with rifles and fixed bayonets, as ammunition was running low.

The British couple now fear for the mental welfare of their seven year old son.

"He has been exposed to things no seven year old should ever see," Scott said.