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

[Brennan77]

One of the victims, Tiger Bech. Older brother to Jack Bech (LSU wr ( now TCU , that came with Nuss) and nephew to to Brett Bech.

Another is a single mom from Metairie who just recieved a promotion at her job last week.

Ugh.

It's horrible. We need to pray for the first responders who cared and is caring for these victims as well.

Then there's this.

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Part of the tragedy in all this is the youth of the victims. Lord have mercy.

 

[St. Widge]

A Tesla exploding seems rather normal. I will need more convincing.

Here is a video of it. The really odd thing is you can see fireworks going off after the explosion:

 

[buzd]

A Tesla exploding seems rather normal. I will need more convincing.

It was rented via Turo as was the NOLA truck. I’m not saying they’re related but the Tesla explosion wasn’t spontaneous.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

Secondary explosives prepositioned indicate a planned attack. I suspect the intent was to make it all the way to the explosives and detonate everything at once while officers respond. It'd be difficult to practice driving high speed down NO streets over humans and around all the obstacles so likely the crash stopped a much worse event.

He’s dead so I guess we may never know… but what did he think was going to happen when he went barreling down Bourbon street on one of the biggest party nights of the year? If the intent was to blow some ish up in a coordinated attack, you go down there quietly and inconspicuously. If you go barreling down the street running people over with cops literally everywhere, there’s a high probability your plan will be foiled. Like clearly this was not well thought out nor mitigations for risks considered at all.

I mean, I’m glad that his plan was foiled & that he got lit up, as it would have ended much worse but sometimes I just wonder if these criminals put any thought into their plans at all.
I guess what I’m getting at is that I feel like most of these fools must want to be caught because they are not thinking these things out or covering their tracks at all. We literally know who people are within a day of them committing a crime or they end up getting killed in the act.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

A Tesla exploding seems rather normal. I will need more convincing.

lol I said something similar earlier to a friend who informed me of that event. Those things are so azzzzz ugly

 

[perret318]

I'm literally speechless.

Utter sleazeball.

 

[Tapxe]

He’s dead so I guess we may never know… but what did he think was going to happen when he went barreling down Bourbon street on one of the biggest party nights of the year? If the intent was to blow some ish up in a coordinated attack, you go down there quietly and inconspicuously. If you go barreling down the street running people over with cops literally everywhere, there’s a high probability your plan will be foiled. Like clearly this was not well thought out nor mitigations for risks considered at all.

I mean, I’m glad that his plan was foiled & that he got lit up, as it would have ended much worse but sometimes I just wonder if these criminals put any thought into their plans at all.
I guess what I’m getting at is that I feel like most of these fools must want to be caught because they are not thinking these things out or covering their tracks at all. We literally know who people are within a day of them committing a crime or they end up getting killed in the act.

The whole point of a terror attack is to make a splash and draw lots of attention. Going incognito won't draw the response you want. It's possible that the explosives were part of a secondary attack.

It goes like this...

Truck barrels down Bourbon
Gunman exits vehicle and inflicts max damage
He blows the truck on the way out
Secondary attacker watches from safe hotel
Secondary attacker detonates as people are responding to injured.

It's a well known tactic.

 

[Maxp]

Here is a video of it. The really odd thing is you can see fireworks going off after the explosion:

Those fireworks are the lithium cooking off. Very energetic.

Edit-looks like I was wrong

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

The whole point of a terror attack is to make a splash and draw lots of attention. Going incognito won't draw the response you want. It's possible that the explosives were part of a secondary attack.

It goes like this...

Truck barrels down Bourbon
Gunman exits vehicle and inflicts max damage
He blows the truck on the way out
Secondary attacker watches from safe hotel
Secondary attacker detonates as people are responding to injured.

It's a well known tactic.

Yeah but like max damage & making a splash or statement would have been earlier in the night right as the clock struck 12 and just set off the bomb and disappear. I dunno… just seems like getting caught is all part of the plan and it doesn’t make sense to want to spend the rest of your life in jail when you could do your dirt & At least try to get away with it. Some of them I do realize want to do the whole suicide by cop thing. But I am not insane so my logical thinking doesn’t really fit.

 

[buzd]

Those fireworks are the lithium cooking off. Very energetic.

The vehicle had fireworks and some sort of accelerant in it.

 

[Maxp]

The vehicle had fireworks and some sort of accelerant in it.

Oh, I see now. Pretty crazy

 

[DerrickB]

Regardless if the attack was well planned or not, it did some damage.
Be thankful that the IEDs did not go off.

 

[Tapxe]

Yeah but like max damage & making a splash or statement would have been earlier in the night right as the clock struck 12 and just set off the bomb and disappear. I dunno… just seems like getting caught is all part of the plan and it doesn’t make sense to want to spend the rest of your life in jail when you could do your dirt & At least try to get away with it. Some of them I do realize want to do the whole suicide by cop thing. But I am not insane so my logical thinking doesn’t really fit.

I wonder about that as well. Best guess is that he was stuck in traffic and running late.

You forget about the 72 virgins ya get dying for the cause.

 

[superchuck500]

Just have to say thank God for that man lift (crane) - I shudder to think how much worse it could have been