Posted on 02/24/2009 3:36:38 PM PST by Islander7
NEW ORLEANS – A Mardi Gras parade erupted into chaos on Fat Tuesday when a series of gunshots struck six people, including an infant. The infant was not seriously injured and two suspects were in custody, police said. The shootings happened near the Garden District about 1:40 p.m. after the last major parade of the celebration, Rex, had ended. Hundreds of truck floats that follow the parade were passing when gunfire broke out.
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When I was in Afghanistan, people used to ask me if I felt threatened there. My reply was always that I felt safer in Afghanistan than in New Orleans, where I used to live. Life was so dangerous in NOLA I had to move to Slidell.
“....Life was so dangerous in NOLA I had to move to Slidell....”
I worked in NOLA for 5 years, 2 at Humana on Bullard in NOLA East. It got so bad around the Bullard area, I resigned. We had car-jackings, rapes, muggings in the parking lot!
Most of the better folks moved from NOLA to the North Shore or other outlying areas long ago. Mandeville has grown huge due to the NOLA flight.
Thank you for service!
More of that Chocolate City Love going on...
After Katrina, we rebuilt our house and sold it. We couldn’t stay in Slidell after Katrina. The criminal element from NO East took over our old neighborhood. Punks began roaming the streets—a group threw bricks through the windshields of our car and truck just for the heck of it. Graffiti began to spring up, obscene crap music blasting, etc. Many of our neighbors sold their houses and left the area, too.
I do know a lot of people that relocated to Mandeville.
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