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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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.
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