Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities (3 Viewers)

[SWJJ]

Something is going on with the men in this country. I'm not saying its all men...but it's almost always a man.

Toxic masculinity. This ideal that the only emotion men should feel is Anger, or that having feelings makes you unmasculine. We repress emotion instead of learning how to feel emotion and it's completely unhealthy and destructive.

 

[efil4stnias]

I would give the benefit of the doubt that they didn't know what they were looking at and were just being curious. If I looked in a cooler and recognized a bomb, I would RUN away .... for my own safety and then also find a cop.

Honestly this makes more sense than that there were 3 other people working with him. Lone crazy dude radicalized by ISIS makes more, um, sense.

well if anything like me, no free beer/liquor??? eff that cooler.

lol

 

[St. Widge]

I didn't even think about the balconies. I dunno about slow him down so much as cause more injuries/deaths and have a lot of people's worst imaginations while being on those balconies realized.

Could be. Not sure how many were still on the balconies at 3 A.M. FWIW, if this guy had done this at Midnight or around Midnight it would have been so much worse with many more dead and injured.

 

[Madmarsha]

well if anything like me, no free beer/liquor??? eff that cooler.

lol

If we're being honest, that's probably why they even glanced in the cooler in the first place.

 

[Madmarsha]

Could be. Not sure how many were still on the balconies at 3 A.M. FWIW, if this guy had done this at Midnight or around Midnight it would have been so much worse with many more dead and injured.

Definitely. Looking at the posts that are holding those balconies up always worry me. They could not have given that EV truck much resistance.

 

[efil4stnias]

If we're being honest, that's probably why they even glanced in the cooler in the first place.

thats the first thing i thought of when i head they were "coolers" - folks peeking to see who left what behind and if there was any left lol

Beers used to cost a fortune on Bourbon ( and im sure still do ) so any "freebie" is welcomed lol

 

[Innominate]

Could be. Not sure how many were still on the balconies at 3 A.M. FWIW, if this guy had done this at Midnight or around Midnight it would have been so much worse with many more dead and injured.

I don't get the timing. Unless he was thinking it would be easy to drive down to St Ann where the other ied's were at 0345. Why would he want to be where the other were left? Wanting to visualize target before remote det?

 

[Sailorsaint]

Never heard him in person but I think he does naturally have a bit of a cajun accent. But, he probably does turn it up for affect at times. But, it's also possible that the heavy accent is how he grew up and sometimes it just pops back up.

I know that I grew up with a fairly strong accent that I have mostly gotten rid of, but it does pop up from time to time when I'm around others that have it or when under stress.

I don't think he's like Senator Kennedy who went from having no accent to talking like Foghorn Leghorn.

I do know that the environment you spend the most time in will change your accent to a degree. After I was deployed for two years and came home, everyone said I sounded "like a yankee", lol. Funny enough, all my shipmates said I had a southern accent. The accent he had growing up may have changed a bit after being exposed to others and having to hold conversations with them.

 

[Madmarsha]

This shows what the pedestrian presence looked like right before the attack. I was curious how crowded it was. Def. people out but for Bourbon Street kinda sparse.

 

[Sailorsaint]

I don't get the timing. Unless he was thinking it would be easy to drive down to St Ann where the other ied's were at 0345. Why would he want to be where the other were left? Wanting to visualize target before remote det?

He was probably trying to draw first responders to the area. Maximum casualties.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

You mention uvalde and I notice your name. You in Austin?

Used to be. Moved 6.5 years ago but I am originally from Texas.

 

[Sun Wukong]

Toxic masculinity. This ideal that the only emotion men should feel is Anger, or that having feelings makes you unmasculine. We repress emotion instead of learning how to feel emotion and it's completely unhealthy and destructive.

But then look at the number of guys making videos or posting at various places who talk about trying to open up about their emotions to their wives/girlfriends only to have them sheet all over them for it. I have a friend who was going through some really bad stuff, decided to uncharacteristically open up to his wife about it and instead of getting a kind ear he got read the riot act about how it wasn't her job to handle his emotional burdens.

Society pretends it wants men to be emotionally open and vulnerable but reality is often it's just better to soldier on because nobody in your life really wants to hear about it.

Therapy helps somewhat. It's a better option than opening up to those around you because at least a therapist won't weaponize your weaknesses against you.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

I don't get the timing. Unless he was thinking it would be easy to drive down to St Ann where the other ied's were at 0345. Why would he want to be where the other were left? Wanting to visualize target before remote det?

I read somewhere else (nothing official so take with grain of salt) that people moving the coolers and interfering is what messed up his timing.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

I don't think he's like Senator Kennedy who went from having no accent to talking like Foghorn Leghorn.

That's because Kennedy isn't a Louisiana native.

 

[St. Widge]

I don't get the timing. Unless he was thinking it would be easy to drive down to St Ann where the other ied's were at 0345. Why would he want to be where the other were left? Wanting to visualize target before remote det?

It's odd. But, he was clearly not stable so it's hard to know what he was thinking or if his plans just got delayed. Maybe he had second thoughts or couldn't work up the courage until then? He had to know he was going to die doing this. Maybe it took him time to finally decide to do it.