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Floridians Are Hit With Price Gouging
In the name of the Executioner of Antichrist
8/18/04 Now just compare this story to the Zio-Nazi CNN B.S. that we are getting about how helpful people are to one another. How can there be any doubt that we are also being lied to about the Florida body count? We all know that the American government is a lying murderous entity. Just yesterday Bush announced that he will murder any journalist that remains in Najaf. Ayatollah Sadar was right not to talk to Bush's puppet government. Talking with those traitors would have given validity to them. If I were there I would have accepted them, arrested them, and tried them for treason. Any Iraqi or Muslim that cooperates with USrael murderers need a bullet in their head... no questions asked! Ayatollah Sadar snubs traitors http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=6000185 Bush threatens to murder journalists... this is nothing new! http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8238 http://www.ccmep.org/2003_articles/I..._kill_inde.htm http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishp...s.asp?ID=24560 How is it that the American fool thinks he can attack the Holy sites of the God of Abraham, peace be upon him, and get away with it? What fools...! Tornadoes across this land and England /Europe has been hit too. Charlie is only the beginning of death and destruction for this nation. Soon the number of dead Americans will exceed the living and as for the wounded and suffering... well just read the story below and you will see what is ahead for you if you are lucky enough to even survive the coming penalties for your arrogant silence in the face of Bush's rapes and murderers of innocence. Declare yourself an enemy to The Bush Crime Family and a friend of Compassion. Nemo Me Impune Lacessit Ali Andrew X98 .................................................. ............................... Waco Protest—April 19, 2004 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WACOun...ed/message/800 Cover-up Church. http://www.public-action.com/SkyWrit...c/x98_rev.html Interview with Carol A. Valentine. http://www.public-action.com/SkyWrit...age/b_kce.html List of Autopsy Reports. http://www.public-action.com/SkyWrit.../d_list00.html .................................................. ....... With Storm Gone, Floridians Are Hit With Price Gouging By JOSEPH B. TREASTER Published: August 18, 2004 RLANDO, Fla., Aug. 17 - Greg Lawrence talks about the $10 bag of ice. Kenneth Kleppach says he was clipped for nearly three times the advertised price for a hotel room. And a man with a chain saw told Jerry Olmstead that he could clear the oak tree off his roof, but it would cost $10,500. Advertisement So much for a friendly, helping hand in a time of crisis. Since the winds of Hurricane Charley subsided, officials say a wave of price gouging has swept across central and southwest Florida, putting law enforcement officials into high gear and infuriating storm victims already faced with damaged homes, shuttered workplaces and long lines for basic commodities. "Why do people try to capitalize on other people's hardship and misery," Mr. Olmstead asked as he fumed over the tree removal. "Of course it angers me. They see an opportunity and, fine, if you want to make a little money. But there's a limit. This is ludicrous." Charlie Crist, Florida's attorney general, said Tuesday afternoon that he had received more than 1,400 complaints of overcharging from throughout the disaster area. This morning he filed formal complaints against the Crossroads Motor Lodge in Lakeland and the Days Inn Airport Hotel in West Palm Beach, accusing them of price gouging and deceptive business practices. Not every complaint checks out, and certainly the stricken areas of Florida are filled with volunteers and people offering free food or charity. But there are also those brazenly looking to make some extra money. Some gas stations facing long lines of cars with empty tanks are charging $3 a gallon for gas that would normally go for $1.78, said John McMahon, a sheriff's investigator in Orlando's surrounding Orange County. In one of the boldest cases, some contractors from Jacksonville offered to clear two trees off the roof of an Orlando woman for $23,000, Mr. McMahon said. The woman declined the offer. In Port Charlotte and in Arcadia, two of the most devastated places, scam artists have been posing as independent insurance claims adjusters, offering, for $500 to $2,000, to help resolve claims with insurance companies, the state's Department of Insurance said. Mr. Crist said of the complaints coming into his office, "This is just the start." He added, "We saw this after Hurricane Andrew and we're seeing it again." Mr. Crist has dispatched teams to help consumers, and squads of sheriff's deputies and consumer advocates are also working to discourage price gouging. While many of the complaints have been coming from Punta Gorda and Arcadia, Orlando, at nearly 200 complaints, is leading the list, with Fort Myers, just south of where the hurricane came ashore on the Gulf Coast, running a close second. Under Florida law, each proven case of price gouging carries a penalty of $1,000; each case of deceptive business practices carries a penalty of $10,000 except when the victim is over 60, in which case the penalty rises to $15,000. The complaints began to trickle in as the storm was approaching and a few came in immediately afterward. But now the pace is picking up, said Sara Kinsey, who has been working late into the night answering the attorney general's complaint hot line. She said she had heard from a man who said he was told that the new price for a small household generator was now $2,000, up from about $250. Many of the complaints have been for two necessities: bottled water and ice. But prices have also jumped for construction work and construction materials, and the authorities expect more of that as the recovery stretches on. Janet Snyder, a pharmacy technician in Cape Coral, said several men in two pickup trucks spotted her roof damage and offered to lay down a temporary covering of plastic sheeting. They wanted $600, about four times what she figured was the right price, based on 15 rolls of plastic that usually sell for $10 each. Across the state, in Ormund Beach, Chris Boyce, a salesman for a roofing supply company, said that when his company tried to restock on Monday the wholesaler tried to raise the price of tar paper 40 percent, to $10.50 for a roll of 216 square feet. "That's criminal," Mr. Boyce said he told the wholesaler, adding, "I'd rather not have it at that price." |
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