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

[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:

New Orleans: suspect shot dead by police after at least 10 killed in vehicle attack – latest updates

Attacker’s behavior was ‘very intentional’, say police, as a further 35 people hurt after vehicle drove into crowd in French Quarter

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.​

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

 

[El Caliente]

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.

Not to go down a rabbit hole with this, but traditional media has botched stories as well (Richard Jewell says hi).

 

[Dago]

I was down there and left just before it happened. I can confirm that they weren't using substantial barricades

 

[GrandAdmiral]

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

Times Square is not full pedestrian.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

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

Obviously take it for what it’s worth

There are steel street closure mechanisms that don't work because the city bailed on the maintenance contract. This was preventable and is really embarrassing.

 

[El Caliente]

Times Square is not full pedestrian.

Yeah, I realize that and changed my description of TS in my following post.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

There is video of NOPD trying to revive him.

Where?

 

[Blackcricket]

Obviously take it for what it’s worth

There are steel street closure mechanisms that don't work because the city bailed on the maintenance contract. This was preventable and is really embarrassing.

I would wonder where's the pressure from the businesses in the French Quarter prior? I understand the statement may or may not be true or accurate but there's this way we have of making great decisions like this only when disaster strikes.

 

[efil4stnias]

Where?

 

[efil4stnias]

And now daylight photos appearing of the perpetrator.
Full camo.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Is it me or is the flag pole from the photo missing in the video?

ETA: Nope. I see it now. Flag doesn't look wrapped either.