Transvestite Gang Loose in New Orleans

Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin is having to call the National Guard to help quell the murderous violence that has returned to his city just has no time to deal with the transvestite gang plaguing the Lower Garden District since May. Katrina and the looters afterwards may have been the worst thing the merchants of New Orleans have had to face, but no one expected a gang of shoplifting drag queens.

The transvestites first appeared in March when they raided Magazine Street like a marauding army of kleptomaniacal showgirls, said Davis, using clockwork precision and brute force to satisfy high-end boutique needs.

Since the police have been unable to help them, the merchants have taken matters into their own hands. Using a phone tree when one sees the flamboyant bunch strutting their way the alarm goes up. Speculation is they are dope fiends who's kartina relief funds have dried up so they resorted to stealing the only thing they really understand, clothes and accessories.

"The city's not functioning the way it was and I'm sure a lot of them were getting some kind of government aid, which they probably aren't getting any more so they're incredibly desperate," Ogle said.

The city sure isn't functioning as it was, it wasn't functioning before Katrina, yet incredibly it's worse. What can one expect when one's fellow citizens reelect a mayor who couldn't handle the job before the disaster? Maybe they thought since the population was half what it was he could deal with it better. Thought wrong.

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