Posted on 02/04/2008 7:35:04 AM PST by CholeraJoe
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The son of a Mississippi political leader was killed by a float in one of the city's Mardi Gras parades.
Joseph P. ``Jody'' Compretta Jr., 39, was pronounced dead at the scene after being run over during the Krewe of Endymion parade on Saturday, police said.
Compretta had been riding on the second section of the three-part Endymion captain's float, Captain Eddy's S.S. Endymion. Police said witnesses told investigators that riders had to disembark from the rear float sections when it approached the Superdome near the end of the parade route. As Compretta got off, the float lurched forward and the third section ran over him, police said.
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Ping.
I expected to hear it was some drunken reveller, but that’s not the case.
Wonder if the poor guy had a wife and kids?
If he was on riding a float, odds are he was pretty lit up.
the parade was like an evil wind blowing through town....look at all the deaths.
See? Bush and Rove just trying to get the ones they missed the first time around.
Spoken like a true “never been there nor participated.”
“Compretta bore his father’s first name, Joseph, but people called him Jody, his brother said. He was the eldest of four children and the father of two young children. Compretta was in New Orleans for Endymion with friends and his wife, his brother said.”
“Compretta was active in civic affairs in Bay St. Louis, which Katrina all but leveled. He was involved in the Bay St. Louis Rotary Club and was a former president of the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce, said Yuki Northington, who knew Compretta from the Rotary Club.
Compretta also was a commissioner on the Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission and was part of an effort to build a marina in Bay St. Louis, Northington said.
“If there was anything going on with improving this community, my brother was involved in it,” Jonathan Compretta said. “He worked tirelessly, not only to rebuild his business, he worked tirelessly to help rebuild this town. He loved this town.”
Northington recalled that Compretta stood up during a Rotary meeting Wednesday and moved to donate $3,000 from a chili cookoff to a high school student in the Interact Club, a youth arm of the Rotary Club.
“He was one in a million,” Jonathan Compretta said. “He would give you the shirt off his back if you needed.”
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-26/120210602235600.xml&coll=1
Mardi Gras dog parade in Mobile
CUTE!
“the parade was like an evil wind blowing through town....look at all the deaths.”
??? One death, which was an accident.
What are you talking about?
read the article....at the original site.....lots of deaths that day
Original article: “A man was shot in the arm on Friday night, and five people were shot Saturday shortly after the Endymion parade had passed.”
One death.
Police said a driver towing a float also ran over his 16-year-old brother Saturday, killing him. A man was shot in the arm on Friday night, and five people were shot Saturday shortly after the Endymion parade had passed.
oops, the shootings left live victims.....looks like two deaths from floats
Two deaths......unless the 16yo was also the older man run over. The rest were just shootings without deaths.....
So, I guess floats don’t really “float.”
“read the article....at the original site.....lots of deaths that day”
Nope, the 5 people who were shot were all pretty much slightly wounded, according to a story on nola.com. One of them got in an argument with two guys who pulled guns. Being shot doesn’t always mean dead.
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