Posted on 02/24/2009 3:36:38 PM PST by Islander7
NEW ORLEANS – A Mardi Gras parade erupted into chaos on Fat Tuesday when a series of gunshots struck six people, including an infant. The infant was not seriously injured and two suspects were in custody, police said. The shootings happened near the Garden District about 1:40 p.m. after the last major parade of the celebration, Rex, had ended. Hundreds of truck floats that follow the parade were passing when gunfire broke out.
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Ahhhh! Mardi Gras! Great FAMILY holiday!
I go to Galveston for Mardi Gras, and Key West for Fantasy Fest (Halloween version). Will NOT go to NO for Mardi Gras. Will go to visit, but only for a short time, and then stay in the Quarter (and only very few areas there). Just too dangerous.
Pretty amazing how fast our country is falling isn’t it? Phoenix ranks number 2 in the world for kidnapping, the illiteracy rate is above 50% in Detroit.
I’m starting to think American cities should form their own countries and leave us flyover folks out of their mess.
illiteracy rate is above 50% in Detroit....”
Take a look at a US map of the worst areas in the nation. They have one thing in common. Guess what it is.
You guessed it. They are all democrat strongholds.
Violence at Mardi Gras is a recent thing.
They all have one thing in common. The same thing 90% ofcrime in New Orleans has in common.
Violence at Mardi Gras is a recent thing.....”
Wrong! Violence in NOLA at any time is the norm. Been to the Quarter on Fat Tuesday one time, 1985. Never again!
Worked the hospitals there for 5 years. The cultural rot is as bad as any 3rd world hell hole.
These are stories sure to win tourists back to the Big Sleazy.
Looks like New Orleans is finally getting back to normal after Katrina.
Perhaps the feds can cut off the benefits now that the locals have returned to ‘self help’.
Maybe you can sell that to the yankees. Folks that are familiar with the place aren't going to buy it.
So what was the body count along parade routes during the 70s 80s and 90s?
Well, all the shootees look like they’re going to survive, there were cops all over the place, they chased you down within a block, you’re going to Angola for a good long while...boys, that is what you call your basic EPIC FAIL.
Two suspects in custody of the NOPD following today's shooting. Glad that I stayed indoors today.
Take a look at the jackets they are wearing in that nola.com photo.
I’m starting to think American cities should form their own countries and leave us flyover folks out of their mess.
yeah, i thought about this too. How nice would it be to live in a rural area in a state and not have the skankiest city having all the voting power?
The 1970s were pretty calm, but when the crack cocaine hit the streets in the '80s, New Orleans turned into a much more dangerous place. Teenaged drug gangs were shooting it out over turf and no cease-fires were called due to the Mardi Gras crowds.
Shootings were common enough near the parade routes (or near Jazzfest venues, during that event) that each year there *wasn't* a killing, the news anchors would heave a sigh of relief.
Yep. I love rural Michigan and I won’t leave but I sure do wish Detroit would hand itself over to Canada.
I used to play softball with some co-workers up on Marconi Dr. in City Park in the evenings. The team from the Charity Hospital ER used to play there, too. They had matching shirts that were printed with:
"Charity Hospital - Where the life you save may one day take your own".
Ahhh,, the best and brightest from Obama’s ACORN crowd.
They need a bailout too dontchyaknow!
I worked for a staffing agency. I pulled one shift at Charity Hospital. WOW!
Port Au Prince on the Mississippi.
Call it the Mardi Gras Miracle.
NOLA has been more dangerous than Afghanistan since the late 70s and 80s, when a population of a certain ethnicity moved to the north shore, and took their tax money with them. The smart folks of that certain ethnicity, celebrate MG in Biloxi or Mobile, or at home.
SHOCKED, I am!
Take a look at a US map of the worst areas in the nation. They have one thing in common. Guess what it is.
You guessed it. They are all democrat strongholds.
Makes one ponder which is the cause and which is the effect.
Makes one ponder which is the cause and which is the effect....”
Chicken or egg question for sure.
There were fights and occasionally a gun brandished and a murder or two somewhere in the city. But shootings on parade routes weren’t something I remember hearing much of. I remember how when someone was killed at Jazzfest a few years back it actually shocked a lot of people. But I do not recall it being a guaranteed occurrence.
Tourists who wandered up above Ramparts to the park, or below Gov. Nichols, or into the cemeteries were routinely shot. Before the World's Fair, you certainly didn't want to go very far across Canal (except the street car up St. Charles).
There certainly wasn't a cease fire declared for Mardi Gras.
By the way - what do you remember about the 1979 Mardi Gras parades?
They have Bloods and Crips in New Orleans. That was my first guess as well. And I'd guess now they have the Mexican gangs with all the illegals that came in for the reconstruction.
Not gotta say it. No sir.
'can think it, though.
I was thinking something more along the lines of “an actual photograph of the white power structure keeping the black man down.”
That was a hair before my time.
And yea...the city itself was violent. But the parade routes always seemed safer. The cemeteries has not been safe for a looooong time no matter that time of year.
1979 - Cops on strike. Parades in Orleans Parish canceled. The National Guard moved in, and crime was way down.
I'm just not that into hanging around a couple of thousand drunks, puking, getting in fights and acting like fools shooting each other.
When I was in Afghanistan, people used to ask me if I felt threatened there. My reply was always that I felt safer in Afghanistan than in New Orleans, where I used to live. Life was so dangerous in NOLA I had to move to Slidell.
“....Life was so dangerous in NOLA I had to move to Slidell....”
I worked in NOLA for 5 years, 2 at Humana on Bullard in NOLA East. It got so bad around the Bullard area, I resigned. We had car-jackings, rapes, muggings in the parking lot!
Most of the better folks moved from NOLA to the North Shore or other outlying areas long ago. Mandeville has grown huge due to the NOLA flight.
Thank you for service!
More of that Chocolate City Love going on...
After Katrina, we rebuilt our house and sold it. We couldn’t stay in Slidell after Katrina. The criminal element from NO East took over our old neighborhood. Punks began roaming the streets—a group threw bricks through the windshields of our car and truck just for the heck of it. Graffiti began to spring up, obscene crap music blasting, etc. Many of our neighbors sold their houses and left the area, too.
I do know a lot of people that relocated to Mandeville.
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