Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities (4 Viewers)

[Dallas_Saint73]

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

Yeah, agree. That's why I said mostly. Like Decatur will likely stay a main entry point for example. From there you park and walk.

 

[Dallas_Saint73]

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.

Are you guys talking about the Norco plant explosion? I was in Kenner at the time and it shattered a few of our windows.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

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

Marsha and El were joking about 'naturally n'awlins' stuff thwarting worse carnage
seeing the video of the truck swerving/accelerating, I was wondering if he just got fed up with traffic on Canal and just said 'screw it'

 

[Dallas_Saint73]

Speculation here, but I can totally see this guy's ex-wife coming out and saying that he became a different person and saw hints of radicalism prior to his latest divorce in 2021.

 

[St. Widge]

Are you guys talking about the Norco plant explosion? I was in Kenner at the time and it shattered a few of our windows.

No. But I do recall that happening. I grew up in The Parish near Murphy Oil. I don't think it was as big as the Norco explosion.

 

[DerrickB]

 

[St. Widge]

Yeah, agree. That's why I said mostly. Like Decatur will likely stay a main entry point for example. From there you park and walk.

Yeah, not totally pedestrian. But, I would expect most streets to get blocked off and access to be limited to specific streets with bigger and better barricades along with passes being required that are only given to residents, business owners, employees, and authorized delivery trucks.

 

[Madmarsha]

I was spelling it the way I knew Jeff Landry would.


Kidding. Wasn't thinking when I wrote it. Realized it later and spelled it it correctly in a later post. But in all honesty, I'm a terrible speller. I rely on spellcheck way too much.

Well, I'm a great speller and I just glossed over it till it got pointed out, so ....

 

[play action]

Hope your brother wasn't perm hurt by the attacker kro. Has a very German Christmas market few weeks ago vibe to it. Good thing none of the bombs went off. We need to learn from this peeps. We will.

 

[DaveXA]

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 tune when you couldn't offend terrorists. We literally changed the Global War on Terror to Overseas Contigency Operations so we didn't offend terrorists.

Source?

Regardless, this isn't the place for this discussion.

 

[Dallas_Saint73]

No. But I do recall that happening. I grew up in The Parish near Murphy Oil. I don't think it was as big as the Norco explosion.

That was insane and very similar to what you guys spoke of. Orange sky and all.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

Good point. I guess I was talking about the time span I’ve been around. I never even thought about something bad like that happening while walking around the quarter in NOLA when I was younger. Same with school shootings. That wasn’t really a thing until Columbine.

I find comments like this fascinating because for women, we always have to consider our safety when doing normal things like walking down a street, getting out of our car in our driveway, going for a jog, etc and guns don’t even have to be involved.

Other random thoughts I have/questions:

I wonder how many people were killed by the truck vs. like was he able to get any shots off and kill anyone with the gun? I know Krod said his brother was hit but seems like the police were there pretty quickly after impact/crash into the construction equipment. Maybe that’s been reported but I haven’t seen it yet.

The US military gives foreigners & their families the chance to become US citizens via a lottery where they also have to serve in the military. I don’t know what the vetting process is for that but seems like it can create opportunities for certain ideologies to creep in. Not to mention our own citizens with their radical beliefs.

People like to think the US military has their sheet on lock. I know people in the military doing certain drugs because the military doesn’t test for them. I know of a civilian working in a certain position looking up records of people in the service for their own personal entertainment which I won’t go into detail over. Military members are making tik-toks on bases and all kinds of really dumb stuff.

Honestly, our military is a joke. Not its capabilities but the lack of regulation on a lot of things and total lack of awareness around security and whatnot is really breathtaking.

 

[TenTwo]

I wonder if the remote to the IEDs malfunctioned so he just improvised by turning down bourbon st and taking people out himself??

 

[Snakehead]

Source?

Regardless, this isn't the place for this discussion.

Source? I'm the source. I served during that time and saw the changes. It was well known he displayed terrorist redflags and even reached out to terror organizations to join.

Just Google him.

 

[Madmarsha]

Marsha and El were joking about 'naturally n'awlins' stuff thwarting worse carnage
seeing the video of the truck swerving/accelerating, I was wondering if he just got fed up with traffic on Canal and just said 'screw it'

It honestly did kinda look like that, didn't it (except for what else we've learned now).