Posted on 01/27/2015 7:48:42 AM PST by rktman
For a city dependent, more or less, on tourism, the last thing New Orleans needs as Carnival kicks into gear are Drudge Reports headlines about Big Easy crime. But that's what Monday brought.
"Police shortage is security risk for Mardi Gras," the hugely popular website aggregator said.
Of course, the NOLA.com homepage was depressing enough.
"Teen fatally shot Monday morning in Algiers," read one headline about the unfortunate and untimely demise of an unidentified Landry-Walker student.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Show me someone who wants to vacation in New Orleans, and I will show you someone who has never been there - lormand
So true. Once was enough for me. We left NO and went up the state.
LOL! Yup. Lived and worked in the area from ‘68 to ‘86. I saw many dark sides of the city. One of my Navy buddies was stabbed to death in Algiers.
Sure do miss the food though. Love the folks in the bayous.
I took the Mrs once (my 3 third trip) she said she doesn’t care to ever go back. She fought hard to get me to take her I didn’t want to go.
Are we allowed to talk about the types of youth who are committing crimes and scaring off tourists????
That, and now I say the same about Las Vegas, you couldn't pay me to go there now.
Cracker, puhleeze.
Free speech is racist. Go back to clinging to your Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Uh, no because that would be profiling and racis’. “I bet I know where you got your shoes.”
I have never been to NO and have been, at best, ambivalent about going.
I only have anecdotal stories to go off of. Many of the people who went down there (for business or pleasure) were less than impressed - even with the French Quarter.
They thought the latter was kinda dirty and scuzzy. I’ve heard that outside of the FQ, the immediate downtown and maybe the Garden District that mosr areas are pretty unsafe.
But thern again, I’m only going off what I’ve heard and read...
James Varney? Was he the start of "Ernest Goes to the Mardi Gras?"
Sounds like New Orleans is a south Chicago.
They also don’t need the police killing people without just cause, it’s a thin line they walk.
Been there. Patrolling. After Katrina and during Ike. Have no desire to return.
Most people I encountered disgusted me, but there one notable exception: an elderly black gentleman who was doing his best to clean up the debris in front of his home and out into the street, while others just walked on by. I truly wanted to dismount and assist this gentleman, though the OPORD did not allow. I will never forget that man.
Most (but not all) of the rest of what I observed made me sad and embarrassed.
The only time I was there was when Pistol Pete Maravich was playing for the then New Orleans Jazz forty years ago. I saw three Jazz games at the Superdome. I also took a bus tour of New Orleans, and I enjoyed it. Also tried Popeye’s Fried Chicken. Pretty spicy. That was the extent of my sampling the famous cuisine of Louisiana.
I have never been to New Orleans — or to any part of LA. As a young person, I thought it would be great to visit NOLA during Mardi Gras. My grandparents had gone, and it sounded just lovely. This was in the early 1960s.
Now, with all that I have learned about how it is celebrated these days, I would not care to attend even if I had my own bodyguards to shield me from crime. My dear grandparents, I am sure, did not witness the type of goings on that apparently occur there now.
I need to add “King Cake” to the grocery list.
We can order Randazzos on line. Baby included and you decide where to shove it. :>}
Sure.
They are Americans.
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