Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities (7 Viewers)

[El Caliente]

The French Quarter is about to go full pedestrian traffic like Time Square.

 

[Madmarsha]

It was an EV. Way faster acceleration.

Yeah, noticed that. "Lightning" Forgot to mention. So it's a 2022 or newer model.

 

[Brennan77]

The French Quarter is about to go full pedestrian traffic like Time Square.

Bourbon is already pedestrian at that time of night with substantial barriers to prevent cars.

 

[Brennan77]

I wonder why they haven’t released the guys identity yet.

It’s a shame they killed him (I mean, good riddance to bad rubbish), but I wish we could have learned his motive.

If it's terrorism he assuredly communicated that information in other ways. I'm guessing the flag that's covered would make it pretty clear.

 

[El Caliente]

Bourbon is already pedestrian at that time of night with substantial barriers to prevent cars.

I think it’s going to be even harder to get a car into the French Quarter now. Like I said, it’s probably going to turn into a Time Square pedestrian mostly situation.

 

[Arathrael]

Bourbon is already pedestrian at that time of night with substantial barriers to prevent cars.

Was just reading, a reported eyewitness said the proper barriers weren't up:

Biden says New Orleans suspect expressed ‘desire to kill’ – as it happened

Officials are investigating the vehicle attack that killed at least 15 and injured more than 30 as an act of terrorism

www.theguardian.com

The eyewitness, Jimmy Cothran, who just spoke to CNN and has lived in New Orleans for about 15 years, said he was surprised that metal barriers that are deployed to control crowds at each spring’s Mardi Gras celebrations were not deployed on Bourbon Street during the New Year’s Eve celebrations this year.​

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He said that only flimsy, orange plastic barriers “that you can push with one finger” were up, not the hydraulic posts that are raised during other large crowd events and, to his knowledge, would have stopped the truck driving the distance and speed it did along the street, running people over.​

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“Those barricades were not up…they never raised them, that’s how this guy was able to drive down Bourbon so quickly,” he said.​

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Cothran said he thought there would have been many fewer casualties if the metal barricades had been deployed “because this truck cannot get around those barricades,” he said.​

 

[Madmarsha]

They are saying that the truck was a Turo rental.

I'm guessing from the plates being registered to them?

 

[El Caliente]

Yes and that is not a jacket.

The flag is just wrapped around

That letter you see, could very well be ISIS.

Internet sleuthing has already discovered this was a Ford EV 150 that was rented on Turo out of Houston.

Internet sleuthing is leaving traditional media/reporting in the dust. It’s wild.

(Side note)

Between this vehicle being a Turo rental, and an AirBnB hosting that British woman’s sexual escapade, I wonder if this gives people second thoughts about ride/house sharing.

 

[efil4stnias]

I'm guessing from the plates being registered to them?

Correct and they identified the owner (who rents it out)

 

[Madmarsha]

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“Those barricades were not up…they never raised them, that’s how this guy was able to drive down Bourbon so quickly,” he said.​

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Starting to a hunna percent believe this.

 

[Brennan77]

Was just reading, a reported eyewitness said the proper barriers weren't up:

Biden says New Orleans suspect expressed ‘desire to kill’ – as it happened

Officials are investigating the vehicle attack that killed at least 15 and injured more than 30 as an act of terrorism

www.theguardian.com

The eyewitness, Jimmy Cothran, who just spoke to CNN and has lived in New Orleans for about 15 years, said he was surprised that metal barriers that are deployed to control crowds at each spring’s Mardi Gras celebrations were not deployed on Bourbon Street during the New Year’s Eve celebrations this year.​

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He said that only flimsy, orange plastic barriers “that you can push with one finger” were up, not the hydraulic posts that are raised during other large crowd events and, to his knowledge, would have stopped the truck driving the distance and speed it did along the street, running people over.​

​

“Those barricades were not up…they never raised them, that’s how this guy was able to drive down Bourbon so quickly,” he said.​

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Cothran said he thought there would have been many fewer casualties if the metal barricades had been deployed “because this truck cannot get around those barricades,” he said.​

If true that is huge.

 

[Sun Wukong]

Internet sleuthing is leaving traditional media/reporting in the dust. It’s wild.

(Side note)

Between this vehicle being a Turo rental, and an AirBnB hosting that British woman’s sexual escapade, I wonder if this gives people second thoughts about ride/house sharing.

Except when they completely botch it. Like when Reddit "solved" the case of the Boston bomber and ended up dragging an innocent guy's name through the mud. Take any and all internet "sleuthing" with a massive grain of salt.

 

[efil4stnias]

Internet sleuthing is leaving traditional media/reporting in the dust. It’s wild.

(Side note)

Between this vehicle being a Turo rental, and an AirBnB hosting that British woman’s sexual escapade, I wonder if this gives people second thoughts about ride/house sharing.

Well I post all this without verification whereas traditional media HAS to verify info. They simply can't post or print what might be. But the internet can.

So you have to sift thru all the info to discern what is real and what is not. At this point, that's all I'm going to post because there are rabbit holes everywhere. But the plate was ided, the Vin was obtained from that, then owner and found to be on Turo.
That much is correct.

As to flag...that "n" is eerily similar to the last letter on an ISIS flag.

 

[El Caliente]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/s/tU4uzn96bO