http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/looters_swipe_up_the_mess_in_chaos_D9SbBRGiVvEVZzEI4AIxaN
New York Post
31
October 2012
By
REBECCA HARSHBARGER, FRANK ROSARIO and JOSH SAUL
Hurricane
Sandy brought
out the worst yesterday in some sleazy New Yorkers, who looted stores and homes
across the city.
Some
posed as Con Ed workers to dupe their victims.
Police
arrested more than a dozen looters in the Rockaways and Coney
Island, which had been evacuated, and stood guard outside ravaged
stores at the South Street Seaport.
“This
morning when they told us the water receded, I walked back to the house to feed
[my pets],” said Eric Martine, 33, a cabby who lives in Brooklyn’s Gerritsen Beach. “Guys were looting, pretending
they were Con Ed and holding people up. It was sick.”
Residents
said police warned them to beware of crooks pretending to be utility workers.
[...]
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/11/where-rumor-thieves-dressed-con-ed-workers-came/58610/
The
Atlantic Wire
2
November 2012
Rebecca
Greenfield
There is zero real evidence
that anyone has dressed up as a Con Ed worker and gone door-to-door robbing
people, yet the tales of such incidents are cropping up so frequently in media,
on social networks, and old fashioned in person, that even Con Ed is warning
people to ask its workers for ID. [...]