Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities (10 Viewers)

[Paul]

cool. keep yo janky arse streets lol.

( drove down Bellaire in Lakeview last week and there is a !@#!@# manhole/street section that looks like small mountain near 26th - i stopped because i had no idea how to get around that thing )

Prior to my kids attending Jesuit and Mount Carmel, I was really only familiar with the Lakefront and the restaurants in Lakeview. When they started making friends at their schools that lived in the area, I got familiar with the “streets” there and it still surprises me that the residents put up with that. Dude, those are not potholes - they’re what’s left over after a meteor hits.

 

[Innominate]

Prior to my kids attending Jesuit and Mount Carmel, I was really only familiar with the Lakefront and the restaurants in Lakeview. When they started making friends at their schools that lived in the area, I got familiar with the “streets” there and it still surprises me that the residents put up with that. Dude, those are not potholes - they’re what’s left over after a meteor hits.

If your oil pan can't take a 2' drop onto concrete you have the wrong vehicle.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

So there's surveillance that shows him placing the IEDs at those intersections where they were found. What time did he do that?

This is the timeline from what the FBI gathered...

 

[Madmarsha]

This is the timeline from what the FBI gathered...

Thank you.

 

[St. Widge]

This is the timeline from what the FBI gathered...

So where does the AirBnB in the Marigny fit into this timeline?

 

[GrandAdmiral]

If your oil pan can't take a 2' drop onto concrete you have the wrong vehicle.

I worked with a guy from Phoenix who temporarily lived in Lakeview off St. Bernard. He said at the time his wife was going to be moving there a few weeks later with their Mustang.

Me: "Uhhhh... you have noticed those potholes have you?"

Him: "Yeah. I'm wondering if need to trade it in once she gets here."

 

[GrandAdmiral]

So where does the AirBnB in the Marigny fit into this timeline?

Between the 31st and 1st would be my guess. At most, Houston is a 6-hour drive. He leaves at 5pm, for example, he gets to NOLA at 11pm.

 

[Innominate]

I worked with a guy from Phoenix who temporarily lived in Lakeview off St. Bernard. He said at the time his wife was going to be moving there a few weeks later with their Mustang.

Me: "Uhhhh... you have noticed those potholes have you?"

Him: "Yeah. I'm wondering if need to trade it in once she gets here."

Phoenix is a grid city with perfect streets. I went there for a job in 05. I was thinking I could move there. Big city, all the sports teams, etc. After living there for a year I left. That place has no soul, no identity, like a New Orleans. Wasn't for me.

 

[saintmdterps]

Were she someone I knew as a friend, my advice to her would be therapy to understand why she stayed in a relationship like that so long and to understand how NOT to get into another one like that. Sounds like she doesn't have any idea what she's doing relationship-wise.

Long story very short. 49 years old college graduate with a good job. Crappy relationship with her mom. The ex is a deadbeat dad, but party fun dad with the kids. Her mom and dad help with college for the oldest 2 kids. She’s afraid mom will cease helping so she’s looking for someone “who’s emotionally and financially stable to help me get my kids through college”

I’m on shaky ground both financially and emotionally. I told her this on our first date, and explained why. She was fine. Until she wasn’t. Good riddance. I’ll be more careful next time.

 

[saintmdterps]

This song played as i was driving to hospital after my first girl was born.

This song will be played for our first dance at her wedding - she doesnt know it, but it will.

I well up listening now and see myself driving down West Esplanade to East Jefferson- like yesterday.

For me it’s UB40’s version of “I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You” I remember that song playing as I had my then 6 month old daughter in one of those frontal infant carriers while I fed her through her NG tube.

She’s fine now. Me not so much

 

[Paul]

Long story very short. 49 years old college graduate with a good job. Crappy relationship with her mom. The ex is a deadbeat dad, but party fun dad with the kids. Her mom and dad help with college for the oldest 2 kids. She’s afraid mom will cease helping so she’s looking for someone “who’s emotionally and financially stable to help me get my kids through college”

I’m on shaky ground both financially and emotionally. I told her this on our first date, and explained why. She was fine. Until she wasn’t. Good riddance. I’ll be more careful next time.

Well if it helps, if I were a single woman, desperate, not much of a looker, and ok with dating a broke geyser and needed a “project”, I’d totally date you.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

Phoenix is a grid city with perfect streets. I went there for a job in 05. I was thinking I could move there. Big city, all the sports teams, etc. After living there for a year I left. That place has no soul, no identity, like a New Orleans. Wasn't for me.

Their streets stay nice because it hardly rains - at least that’s what I was once told. It hardly rains where I am as well but the streets suck so who knows.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

This is the timeline from what the FBI gathered...

So one can just “join” ISIS? Is there a sign-up fee? Makes me feel like he was more of an IS sympathizer than an actual member because you don’t just “join” like some book club.

ETA - not directed at you. Just the timleline where he cites joining ISIS in the summer made me laugh.

 

[Madmarsha]

This is the last direction I thought this thread would turn.

 

[ilvdsnts]

The cynic in me wants to point out that it took only 4 posts before we got a post advocating for removing all traffic from Bourbon. We're now on page 5 and there hasn't been a single rebuttal implying that it's not the trucks fault, or that's too drastic or what about law abiding drivers or...

Not in those exact words but i’ve heard people say that if the bollards had been in place to prevent traffic he would’ve found another way to inflict harm. As a matter of fact, it is my speculation that the truck wasn’t his plan A. I think if you are trying to inflict the most damage, he would’ve done it when the crowds were bigger at or right before midnight. The devices he planted wouldn’t detonate, so once he couldn’t get them to explode after a few hours he went to plan B.