Posted on 02/24/2009 1:16:33 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
NEW ORLEANS – Six people, including a one-year-old boy, were injured on the parade route in a shooting on Fat Tuesday, according to spokesman EMS spokesman Jeb Tate.
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The hell hole that is chocolate city.
Just another reason it’s off my vacation list.
A few more years of this crap and the Mardi Gras parade will be run entirely by the indigeneous domestic terrorist crews (gangs).
The city only looks like chocolate, it’s really stirred up $h*t.
Who the heck would bring a one year old into that mess. Assuming of course they were not sitting on their porch.
Oh swell, my daughter and 30 of her college friends drove down from SC for Mardi Gras.
New Orleans is Darfur with sturdier buildings.....
I would never go to Murder Gras.
NOLA is a third world rathole.
That toilet needs to be flushed again.
third world country....
No comment
Fighting over a Zulu Coconut?
Sounds like NO is getting back to normal.
It’s time for the US to withdraw from New Orleans.
Figures. After seeing the “residents” actions during Katrina, I would never set foot in that ghetto.
Never been...I’ve been all over the world, most US cities and rural areas but never New Orleans......
Marti-Gras is on my bucket list......
I went to Mardi Gras with a bunch of my military buddies in 1996. We didn’t feel safe and we were a bunch of scrapping young guys.
Caught a pickpocket in the act of trying to remove my wallet. He was a young boy so I let him go.
We had fun but I wouldn’t take my wife there nor would I go back now.
It is a hole.
The Mardi Gras celebration encompasses many miles of people in various locations. Your daughter, hopefully, is miles away from the shooting. There is also a big celebration out in the suburbs where a lot of young people like to go. It is relatively safer there, and is more family oriented.
A friend’s e-mail:
Three and one-half years after Katrina there are still 17,000 former New Orleans parasites living in hotels and motels. They’ve been there for 42 months .. and just can’t seem to find a way to get out and get their own housing. Not only that, but there are still another 8,000 people living in temporary housing who can’t claw their way out as well. How would YOU define these people? Sterling citizens? Worthy Americans? No ... they’re human parasites. They are the people who made New Orleans the most welfare-dependent people in this country .. the people who brought New Orleans its sky-high crime rates ... and now Obama has given these people another 60-day extension in their hotels, motels and temporary housing.
Change you can believe in?
New Orleans was a great place to visit but Mardi Gras was hairy...
*New Orleans is Darfur with sturdier buildings.....*
Have you ever been there? Half the buildings looked less sturdy.
This kind of behavior has been going on for as long as I remember, and I started going to Mardi Gras in 1966. I haven't been in years, since we moved away up North, but even then, gangs of young men would roam the streets looking to start trouble. My cousin got stuck on the back of the hand with a knife, in 1967, after cutting through a crowd of boys, when she and my sister were looking for a place to go to the bathroom.
Yep, Once. Year before Katrina came ashore.
Our youngest son is in college in MS, and he was invited by some friends in the dorm, to go to a Mardi Gras parade over the weekend. He wisely declined.
Holy crap! Katrina hit in August of 2005!
How long does it take to, “get back on your feet?”
I really like New Orleans. I’ve been there a couple of times for bachelor parties, my own included. This was Jan 21 of this year. That said, I wouldn’t go for Mardis Gras. Too much going on there at that time.
They are willing to stay
As long as you’ll pay
Come to where Mardi Gras actually started, Mobile, Alabama.
Not as wild as NO, but much safer.
What do you mean 'back?' These people were never on their feet. They are second or third generation Great Society creations.
Thank you LBJ.
Did you go anywhere but the French Quarter? NO reminds me a lot of DC—one block is obviously a rich area, the next looks like it hasn’t seen a dime in upkeep since 1910.
And if you like a place where pickpockets, beggars and scammers operate, the quarter is the place for you. I was amazed to see people pushing baby strollers at 10 p.m. down Bourbon right past the “French Topless Bottomless Orgy Dance Show” bars. Insane.
Another thing that cracked me up was that two different girls with heavy southern accents asked if my girlfriend and I were related—after we had made public displays of affection!
During the aftermath of Katrina, I talked to someone who asked a family if they wanted to live for free in a house in Kansas City until things got turned around in N.O.
They declined, it was “too cold” there.
Caught a pickpocket in the act of trying to remove my wallet. He was a young boy so I let him go
He might have been the shooter.
*Come to where Mardi Gras actually started, Mobile, Alabama.*
Come on now, you know that Mardi Gras actually started in Europe as ‘Carnival.’
When Gustav came through this last year a bunch of people from NO were brought here to a Red Cross shelter. They were thrilled to be here and shortly after arrival asked when they would be getting their “financial assistance cards”. (The Red Cross often gives people in a disaster a pre loaded credit card for use to replace clothing, household items, and food if you aren’t in a shelter.)
We very patiently explained that they had not been plucked off a rooftop, and they should have brought their own clothing. This time they were getting *food* (provided by us) and *shelter*. Nothing more.
We opened up a camp here in SW Va. No takers at all. Too cold. But the church that owned the camp cleaned up in donations.
They want a free place to stay and a free check every month just like they had in the Big Easy. They’ll run a little something on the side to make spending money. That don’t play well in the Appalachian hills unless you are selling moonshine or redneck crack or Oxy.
Sorry, In the US.
“THE” parade route???
As if there’s only one?
No kidding, like the ones that blew that motel room up recently making meth. We have had more than our fair share of Katrina trash here in Atlanta.
Yes, Boobies actually migrate from the Galapagos to New Orleans each year on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. Kind of like the swallows returning to Capistrano.
I’ve seen some mighty fine specimens down there.
Your friend copies shamelessly and without attribution from Neal Boortz, apparently.
And they apparently survive on colored plastic beads. And they are voracious in getting them (at least when I was there).
Nothing much has changed there.
Yeah, I ran up on a pair that were so mesmerized by the beads I was wearing that they actually let me touch them. It was a very exciting experience to say the least.
In New Orleans, so far it's five generations and counting.
The area by Tulane is stunningly beautiful. A lot of the town is run-down—just a huge disparity between the rich and the poor there.
New Orleans at Mardi time is the boobs-baring capitol of the United States. Plus, the only place your wallet is safe is if you left it back at the motel.....and it's probably not even safe there.
Leni
Been there. As long as you stay inside the safe zone you’ll be fine.
Step beyond that area and your life is in danger.
Mardi Gras is all about booze booze booze and a few other unmentionable activities.
Her younger sister just texted her and asked “Are you shot?”. lol. This will be 3 years in a row they have gone.
Get it right, it's "R U Shot?"
That old uptown area has some of the oldest gated communities in the country. However, even the poorer neighborhoods were neat and well-kept when I was a kid there, some 40 years ago. Most of the damage has occurred in the past 25 years, as the contents of the housing projects displaced the older European immigrant families in places like the Ninth Ward.
Because the city is heavily Catholic, it was once a big draw to Italians. It's fading now, but many residents used to have accents that sounded more like something from South Philly than anywhere on the Gulf Coast.
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