A funnel cloud strikes once and moves on. Tornadoes don't keep returning to batter the same house and the same family over and over. Gawkers never let up. They show no sense or sensitivity. Never offering to help, they hurt by stopping and staring at the devastation, mouths agape and stares blank, just like their minds.
Looters steal things.
They sneak in and cart off worldly goods from homes already humiliated by a tornado's fury. Gawkers rob disaster victims of something they cannot replace, their dignity. They look with dehumanizing gazes at these people and what's left of their houses and their lives. Gawkers view these victims as casual entertainment, exotic beasts in a zoo of horrors, a sight to see from the car window while they're out for a Sunday drive. Rod is a Hamilton County sheriff's deputy.