Is anyone interested in going up to America's Stonehenge this Sunday afternoon? It's in North Salem, NH, about an hour's drive north. I've never been there, but I've seen a TV show about it and it looks interesting (even if it is partly a hoax).
Remember how New Orleans seemed to have been completely taken over by gangs and crazies in the days after the hurricane and flood? Turns out the reports of chaos and anarchy were greatly exaggerated:
  • "A team of paramedics was barred from entering Slidell, across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, for nearly 10 hours based on a state trooper's report that a mob of armed, marauding people had commandeered boats. It turned out to be two men escaping from their flooded streets, said Farol Champlin, a paramedic with the Acadian Ambulance Company."
  • "During six days when the Superdome was used as a shelter, the head of the New Orleans Police Department's sex crimes unit, Lt. David Benelli, said he and his officers lived inside the dome and ran down every rumor of rape or atrocity. In the end, they made two arrests for attempted sexual assault, and concluded that the other attacks had not happened."
  • "For military officials, who flew rescue missions around the city, the reports that people were shooting at helicopters turned out to be mistaken. 'We investigated one incident and it turned out to have been shooting on the ground, not at the helicopter,' said Maj. Mike Young of the Air Force."

Edit: More details from The Times-Picayune.
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