Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities (2 Viewers)

[St. Widge]

Thanks for the info. It's been a while since I've gone down Bourbon from Canal. I usually enter the Quarter via Decatur.

I think you're right about making the FQ mostly pedestrian.

Yeah, they have occasionally talked about making the FQ mostly pedestrian, but it has long been resisted by businesses and residents. But my guess is that this will quiet all opposition.

Not that it would stop similar things from happening again. Someone committed enough will always find a way. Maybe it wouldn't be a truck, but it could still easily be that several IEDs like the ones they found on Bourbon go off the next time. Nearly impossible to stop that unless you do a full search of every single person entering the Quarter. Even then there are drones, etc.

 

[DaveXA]

boy i did - in high school I was 35% sure that nuclear bombs were minutes from falling

I was 50% sure. Lol.

 

[Dallas_Saint73]

It is. Holiday Inn Downtown. I've stayed there for a lot of Saints games. Rare downtown NOLA hotel with balconies. I know it was HOJO because there's a video out there on Youtube of a SWAT team or something being deployed to the roof by a helicopter when it was a downtown howard johnson.

Yes, for the Mark Essex incident in 1973. The Huey was unsuccessful in rooting the shooter out so police stormed the area where he was hold up.

 

[St. Widge]

boy i did - in high school I was 35% sure that nuclear bombs were minutes from falling

Yeah, I still recall waking up in the middle of the night after a loud explosion woke me as a kid. I looked out the window and the sky was orange. I thought the Russians nuked us. Then I found out that the refinery that was less than a mile from my house had a big explosion and fire.

 

[Rickboy]

Actually more than one. It's happened a few times. This is an issue that the US military has had to deal with on a regular basis over the years. Not just attacks and aftermath, but prevention as well. You'd be surprised how often is happens. Just doent get a ton of attention unless an attack actually happens.

True, when I was at Ft Belvoir there was a guy in my company that was found to have live grenades, a couple pistols, smoke grenades, a lot of ammo, and several other weapons. It was discovered later that he had concealed a couple AR-15s off post. All this in the barracks, right above my room. The dude was always kinda off. A 2LT, our acting Company Cmdr, somehow figured things out and reported it to the MPs. I had to testify at him courts marshal while attending PLDC.

I kinda count myself lucky. He was one of those guys that was always the butt off jokes. He seemed to take it well and was considered “one of the guys” but who knows if he harbored any resentment.

I was happy when I got married and was able to move off post.

 

[Noble Saint]

I know from being on the road yesterday how many Texas plates I saw because I remarked about it. Now, I don't think for a minute we passed him, but still it makes you think about vehicles you pass.

I got chills when I saw the vehicle. I saw an identical Lightning pass me on Monday morning on I-55 on the long bridge headed towards Hammond. Doubt it was same vehicle, but the vehicle used seemed to have a lot of mud and dirt in the wheel wells and around the tires.

 

[DaveXA]

True, when I was at Ft Belvoir there was a guy in my company that was found to have live grenades, a couple pistols, smoke grenades, a lot of ammo, and several other weapons. It was discovered later that he had concealed a couple AR-15s off post. All this in the barracks, right above my room. The dude was always kinda off. A 2LT, our acting Company Cmdr, somehow figured things out and reported it to the MPs. I had to testify at him courts marshal while attending PLDC.

I kinda count myself lucky. He was one of those guys that was always the butt off jokes. He seemed to take it well and was considered “one of the guys” but who knows if he harbored any resentment.

I was happy when I got married and was able to move off post.

Holy sheet, dang. I've read about incidents similar to this before, but hearing it from you hits different. And thank you for your service! Glad nothing worse happened.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Damn. I know they confirmed two outside what was in the truck. How many more were they?

 

[Innominate]

Did the remote not work? Why drive the truck down bourbon if you have a remote detonator for multiple targets? Just a stupid plan?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Also authorizes state funds

authorizes what now?

 

[DaveXA]

Did the remote not work? Why drive the truck down bourbon if you have a remote detonator for multiple targets? Just a stupid plan?

Could be he wrecked sooner than he planned. And it's also possible they didn't assemble the IEDs correctly. Which could be why several were found intact.

 

[DaveXA]

authorizes what now?

Well, touché, lol.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Photo of Jabbar released on MSNBC...

 

[DCSaints_Fan]

Thanks for the info. It's been a while since I've gone down Bourbon from Canal. I usually enter the Quarter via Decatur.

I think you're right about making the FQ mostly pedestrian.

I don't think making the entire FQ pedestrian is practical. You can definitely block off Bourbon and the side streets.

 

[Snakehead]

So US citizen, former US military service.

Wasn't there a shooting years ago on a base in Texas by a radicalized military memeber?

Yes, you are thinking about that Major at Ft. Hood. Guy was a terrorist through and through. Displayed every sign, but nobody confronted him because it was at a time when you couldn't offend terrorists. We literally changed the Global War on Terror to Overseas Contigency Operations so we didn't offend terrorists.