Oops.
Posted on 07/29/2009 7:21:34 AM PDT by murron
A day after a man drove a car off the top of a downtown New Orleans parking garage, plummeting four stories to another rooftop, he and his passenger were under hospital care Tuesday while the adjoining building's owner pondered how to remove the wrecked vehicle.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
No - still probably wondering why “WHOA CAMEL” didn’t work to stop the car...
The article said — A day after a man drove a car off the top of a downtown New Orleans parking garage, plummeting four stories to another rooftop, he and his passenger were under hospital care Tuesday...
And then you said — The name of the 25 year old male driver leads me to wonder if this was some sort of attempted “honor” killing.
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Well, actually, he could have been trying out what Jack Bauer did on the series “24”...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bauer
Shoulda been a “Here, hold muh beer” alert on this one!
Another proud graduate of the Ted Kennedy School of Offensive Driving.
What is a CBD?
That's local slang for the Central Business District. Where the big buildings are.
Central Business District. Basically, Canal Street and the next several blocks across Canal from the French Quarter, where the highrise office buildings, the civic center, the hospitals, the Superdome and the Arena are.
On the other hand...summer in New Orleans could drive even an Iranian mullah straight down to Bourbon Street to order a tub of frozen daiquiri.
In New Orleans? Just leave it there. It will be cleaned up by opportunist salvagers in a short time.
Sorry about that. It’s the Central Business District.
Oops.
The guy who owns the other building should charge for parking the car on his roof, and let the owners figure out how to get it down.
That looks like a pretty prime parking space....
Just ask obama. He's an expert at knowing what happened without knowing what happened.
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