Well, the French have a funny way of looking at the distribution of property. Remember they wanted us to pay them for saving their cheese eating, children-wine-swilling, non-soap using, perfumed-instead-of-bathing butts from the Germans. Who have, ironically, almost morphed into the French.
 

I read somewhere that the AFP photographer said he saw the people find their items floating downstream outside a flooded grocery store and that the AP photographer says he witnessed the looter actually entering the grocery store and leaving with his items. Thus the difference in terminology.
 

Of course he did ...
 

Chris Graythen is American, not French. He maintains that the two white guys in the AFP photo did not enter the grocery store, nor for that matter did any of the black people around them. The store had no doors, and stuff was floating all over the place.

http://xrlq.com/2005/08/31/looting-vs-finding/

One wonders what the race-pimps will think of next. Maybe they can juxtapose some news story depicting a black guy driving a car he had "stolen" on top of a similar-looking photo of some white guy driving a car he had "bought," and then expect us all to be outraged over the fact that the racist meanies in the MSM think only black people "steal" stuff while white people "buy" it.