Posted on 02/24/2020 6:14:59 AM PST by BenLurkin
The man was fatally injured Saturday evening as the popular Krewe of Endymion was rolling, New Orleans police said in a statement. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office was to release his name and cause of death after completing an autopsy and notifying his family.
The remainder of Endymion’s parade was scrapped Saturday evening. Police said 13 floats had already gone ahead when the accident occurred with the 14th float in the formation. Remaining floats that followed, along with marching groups, were diverted from the accident scene on Canal Street, a wide route popular with parade viewers in the Mississippi River port city.
The float, with its gaudy lights still twinkling, was cordoned off by police on horseback and on foot. All around, streets were strewn with tossed bead necklaces and trinkets thrown from the floats.
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Nice excerpt. I assume the flaot killed him with it’s electrical rotating knives skewering his heart and decapitating him before cutting off his right hand.
Or was it something else?
Laissez les bons temps rouler meets
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die
We’ll have to wait for the autopsy. It might have been a spontaneous center fuel tank explosion.
You can assume there was lots of alcohol involved by all parties.
Whoa, super sarc right there. A couple sacred cows just got butchered.
The float killed him just like SUVs are always killing people. Humans have no agency, but vehicles do.
Anyway, I am sorry these people died.
2nd death this year in the parades. A woman was killed Wednesday.
HAHAHA!
That’s not something people we need to worry about do. However there are those who ...
Panic, moralize and legislate against, for tomorrow they’ll still be progressive snowflakes.
It sounds like they need some sensible float control.../s
Look into a mirror and SAY IT !
Three times, please.
Say what?
Unless things have changed a lot (I doubt that they have.), it’s a pure wonder that MORE people don’t get killed as a LOT of DRUNKS & folks who are “doped up” try to climb up on the floats & have to be dragged off by the krewe members, security guards and/or the NOPD officers.
When I was in grad school at Tulane, I worked security for several krews & we security folks sometimes got ASSAULTED by the people, who were trying to climb ONTO the floats.
Yours, TMN78247
Looks like Animal House.
I’m betting it was the float with Hillary...
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