Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities (6 Viewers)

[St. Widge]

As for maintenance on the retractable bollards...the problem is things getting stuck down in the gap, like Mardi Gras beads and various other things, am I correct? If that is a problem, why can't they just add a cap to them with a flange that fans out a few inches? Basically just a protection measure, and it would add a slight bump, like a speed strip when retracted. I've seen this in other places.

Nobody has really said why they needed maintenance. Just that they were doing maintenance on them in preparation for the Super Bowl. Being maintenance, I assume it was to make sure they properly functioned during the Super Bowl, not a situation where stuff was stuck in them and they needed to be repaired. But, I don't really know.

It's been awhile since I looked at them, and I never really took a very close look obviously, but my recollection is that there isn't much of a gap where stuff could fall in and get stuck.

 

[UptownSaintsFan]

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Nobody has really said why they needed maintenance. Just that they were doing maintenance on them in preparation for the Super Bowl. Being maintenance, I assume it was to make sure they properly functioned during the Super Bowl, not a situation where stuff was stuck in them and they needed to be repaired.

It's been awhile since I looked at them, and I never really took a very close look obviously, but my recollection is that there isn't much of a gap where stuff could fall in and get stuck.

they are in the process of being replaced because the old ones kept getting stuck.

“Bollards were not up,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell told reporters during a press conference on Wednesday. The replacement project began in November and is “near completion, with the expectation of being completed before the Super Bowl,” she said.

The “broken-down” bollards were “inefficient” and often had Mardi Gras beads stuck in the machinery, according to Cantrell.

New Orleans readies for Sugar and Super bowls. Its prep work might have cost lives

Officials acknowledged major defense gap and suggested beefed-up security could not have stopped massacre

www.independent.co.uk

 

[efil4stnias]

Talking to my CSR now- they were leaving Prohibition just as he crashed into the man-lift ( it was for additional lighting ) and pinned a man between truck/man lift. It happened all in front of her. Guy exited truck and started shooting.

She said she was just frozen- another patron grabbed her and pulled her inside- hit the floor. Said they guy got out vehicle and started spraying bullets. Said they were ushered upstairs but that it was all over in what seemed like seconds.

Said they were finally escorted out at around 345am and told to look up ( but keep hand on person in front ) but unfortunately saw all the same stuff.

Said she was just standing there, on sidewalk and couldnt move. Like it wasnt real.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

Something is going on with former military men. We're not giving them the tools they need to return to civilian life after breaking them down during their service.

Something is going on with the men in this country. I'm not saying its all men...but it's almost always a man.

 

[St. Widge]

they are in the process of being replaced because the old ones kept getting stuck.

New Orleans readies for Sugar and Super bowls. Its prep work might have cost lives

Officials acknowledged major defense gap and suggested beefed-up security could not have stopped massacre

www.independent.co.uk

Thanks. Had not seen any info on why they were down. All I heard is it was preparation for the Super Bowl.

Also, while the bollards in the street at Canal and Bourbon would not have stopped him from making the turn the ones further down would have slowed him down.

 

[Madmarsha]

Said she was just standing there, on sidewalk and couldnt move. Like it wasnt real.

I'd probably do the same waiting for my brain to react. That's what I do in dreams.

 

[efil4stnias]

Talking to my CSR now- they were leaving Prohibition just as he crashed into the man-lift ( it was for additional lighting ) and pinned a man between truck/man lift. It happened all in front of her. Guy exited truck and started shooting.

She said she was just frozen- another patron grabbed her and pulled her inside- hit the floor. Said they guy got out vehicle and started spraying bullets. Said they were ushered upstairs but that it was all over in what seemed like seconds.

Said they were finally escorted out at around 345am and told to look up ( but keep hand on person in front ) but unfortunately saw all the same stuff.

Said she was just standing there, on sidewalk and couldnt move. Like it wasnt real.

she said she just off camera to left ( exited left side ) and saw the officer ( which turns out to be @Krodwhodat brother ) get hit and thats when she got yanked back inside by someone.

unbelievable.

 

[Madmarsha]

Does Jeff Landry fake his accent?

You never lived in Louisiana, right? The NOLA accents in movies/TV are always cringey, IMO. I would say for where Landry grew up, that's probably a common accent. You hear them in NOLA but not a lot. You start hearing them more often in Baton Rouge and continuing on down that way. So, IMO, most often when you hear an actor doing a "New Orleans" accent, it's really trying to do a Cajun accent ... badly.

 

[efil4stnias]

I'd probably do the same waiting for my brain to react. That's what I do in dreams.

i think unless you are trained, that almost everyone will be in disbelief and the brain simply isnt processing and sending signals in that moment.

She said they were all just coming out to see what commotion was all about - so it wasnt like they knew a terrorist act was happening, just heard the crash and went out to see.

Said whoever yanked her back inside, yanked her out of her shoes ( she lost them )

and thanks whoever it was.

 

[Devildog]

Something is going on with former military men. We're not giving them the tools they need to return to civilian life after breaking them down during their service.

Welcome to the last 80 years.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

@Dago The FBI rep just stated that the people they thought might be involved were just patrons who moved/looked inside the coolers so what I read earlier seems to be confirmed.

So... people looked inside the coolers and nobody noticed a forkin bomb? We are COOKED as a society!

Maybe he misspoke and they just moved the coolers out of the way or something but dang.

 

[Madmarsha]

Also, while the bollards in the street at Canal and Bourbon would not have stopped him from making the turn the ones further down would have slowed him down.

So like have kept him from going the 3 blocks he went? I think that's true.

 

[Dago]

@Dago The FBI rep just stated that the people they thought might be involved were just patrons who moved/looked inside the coolers so the what I read earlier seems to be confirmed.

So... people looked inside the coolers and nobody noticed a forkin bomb? We are COOKED as a society!

Maybe he misspoke and they just moved the coolers out of the way or something but dang.

God I hope so

But unfortunately it wouldn't surprise me