Posted on 03/06/2010 4:14:28 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
The president of a Houston energy company disappeared in New Orleans early Friday, according to police who are trying to get surveillance video from the Bourbon Street area where colleagues last saw him.
Douglas Schantz, 54, is president of Houston-based Sequent Energy Management, one of the largest wholesale gas marketers in the country.
Colleagues last saw Schantz wearing a blazer and tie between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Friday in a Bourbon Street bar, Assistant Police Superintendent Marlon Defillo said on Saturday.
His wife reported him missing after he failed to meet his daughter for a flight home later that morning. Schantz’s hotel key card had not been used since Thursday, and his bank and phone accounts were untouched, Defillo said.
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Check out the pots the voodoo priests are stirring
Not a good thread for your attempt at humor.
I don’t know if it was an attempt to be humorous or not. But for the most part the crimes towards tourists are simple muggings. Usually murder leaves the victim right where they’re robbed dead. All the major crimes against tourists I’ve seen involved them being shot in the open and left to die on the sidewalk.
We’re not talking about criminals who think too far in advance.
Sequel to the “Pelican Brief”?
Not an attempt at humor
It is a fact.
You’re broad brush statement about NOLA returning to normal after Katrina is what I find ‘humorous’.
You want to find a tourist destination that kills tourists, try south florida.
I will make fun of those that do, though...
They’ve been luring folks up to what is now Louis Armstrong Park and killing them for decades. They’ve been rolling tourists in the Quarter for centuries, not just decades. We are talking business folks here, not opportunistic Crips and Bloods.
foul play suspected.
Thanks for the update....
I was just about to check back on that.
interesting...
I’m pretty sure this scenario is played out in cities around the country as well... different park, different city.
Thanks for the info... I’ll try not to get lured to any parks by complete strangers when visiting NOLA...
Nothing good ever happens after 2 AM.
Or as Travis Bickle would have put it, "a real rain came, and washed all the scum off the streets."
Maybe he was too drunk to realize he was going the wrong way?
A distinct possibility.....
According to a local FOX affiliate, Schantz was last seen leaving Club Razzoo on Bourbon Street very early Friday evening. Schantz had reportedly been in New Orleans to visit his daughter, who goes to Tulane, and to give the school a donation from AGL Resources.
“We are willing to give anything to find my father, money is not an issue,” Schantz’s son, Michael Schantz, told New Orleans-based WVUE Fox 8.
Surveillance cameras show a missing Texas energy executive leaving a New Orleans night club early Friday, but no other clues have been made public in his disappearances.
New Orleans Police Assistant Superintendent Marlon Defillo said video from a nearby camera on Bourbon Street shows 54-year-old Douglas Schantz leaving the Razzoo Bar and Patio about 2 a.m. Friday.
Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, which included Schantz on its advisory board, said the video also shows a taxi pull away and Shantz can’t be seen after that.
Still, it’s not clear if Schantz got into the taxi.
Shantz, president of Sequent Energy Management, was in New Orleans to give Tulane a $25,000 gift during a reception Thursday.
http://www.wwl.com/Video-shows-missing-Texas-exec-leaving-NO-bar/6516251
Stay out of the cemeteries, as well. Lots of tourists are intrigued by the above-ground tombs, and the cemeteries are a rich hunting ground for the natives - or at least they were pre-Katrina. The escorted tours may be OK, but don’t go in there on your own. In the quarter, don’t go farther away from the river than Dauphine, or farther down river than St. Phillip. and after dark, subtract a block each direction. Stay sober and aware, and enjoy your visit.
Thanks...
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