Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities (5 Viewers)

[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.

 

[Madmarsha]

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.

Valid question that I had, too. But that's a question we should ask about other things, too.

 

[buzd]

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.

Phoenix is at the foot of mountains so it’s all dry hard rock that doesn’t move. New Orleans is built on swamp and clay, so it’s like putting streets on a waterbed.

 

[Madmarsha]

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.

Interesting thought.

 

[Sun Wukong]

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.

They do a rush week. But if you're a legacy you just get in.

 

[Eeyore]

I dont know why folks have such a hard time with Federal LE claiming "terror" when they havent all the info.

They cannot, unlike anonymous folks on twitter, proclaim "terror" based on a curled up flag with one character showing in photo.

my word.

My issue is with the application of the term.

If a woman who owns no weapons says "delay, deny, depose" on a phone call is a terrorist, but a man who has 150 explosive devices in his home, told neighbors that political assassinations should be brought back, told the neighbors that he hopes an assassin won't miss a presidential candidate, and used photos of a sitting president for target practice is not terrorism, what is terrorism?

 

[Saint_Ward]

he went on sidewalk at first (going around squad car), but he had 3 blocks of unobstructed driving correct?
and while i'm certainly in the camp to make (most of) The Quarter a pedestrian zone, not sure I want bollards on the sidewalk as well - for whatever reason that feels like it creates more problems than it solves

Even if they put bollards at each block, he could have probably still gone around on the sidewalk.

Clearly any sidewalk barrier needs space for pedestrians and wheelchairs, etc.

 

[VPCajun]

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

It

was

inevitable!

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[Wisco Steve]

Even if they put bollards at each block, he could have probably still gone around on the sidewalk.

Clearly any sidewalk barrier needs space for pedestrians and wheelchairs, etc.

There are other means besides bollards that have been adopted. You still need trucks parked, narrowing the sidewalk paths. This is what my community did after a criminal maniac plowed thru the X-Mas parade:

Waukesha Memorial Day Parade returns; traffic barricades in place

The Memorial Day Parade Monday was Waukesha's first parade since November's Christmas Parade attack and featured $800,000 worth of barriers at all major intersections, aimed at preventing another tragedy.

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