Mardi Gras Shooting

[Monkey]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29371878


NEW ORLEANS - An infant and five other people were shot Tuesday along a parade route packed with Mardi Gras revelers, police said. Two suspects were in custody.

But what really got me was this:


Beau Beals, 45, said he was outside a house party on St. Charles Avenue when the shooting erupted. He said and other partygoers tossed children over a metal fence to get them to safety, but others kept waiting for beads and other trinkets being tossed from the floats as if nothing had happened.

"They had an ambulance out here picking the guy up off the street and people didn't stop vying for throws," Beals said.

I guess the other title for this thread could be "What's This World Coming to, Part 8,963".

But seriously. WTF?

[Joe270]

But what really got me was this:

others kept waiting for beads and other trinkets being tossed from the floats as if nothing had happened

An infant and five other people were shot

Well, there's yer answer, infant and five, that's six shots. The gun was empty. Party on, it's Mardi Gras.

[Monkey]

Ok, so that's a good point.

But there were TWO guns.

[veinglory]

Once the violence is over, and the emergency team has responded, does it really matter what people do? They can't all render aid and so long as they are not blocking the paramedics or adding to the distress of others there might be something to be said for not responding by flight and terror to every thuggish crime.

[William Haskins]

i've been shot at mardi gras and i have to say the woman shaking her tits at me while the paramedics were trying to stop the bleeding was a bit distracting.

that's the last time i ever took mom to mardi gras.

[Bayou Bill]

I guess the other title for this thread could be "What's This World Coming to, Part 8,963".

But seriously. WTF?
Never try to extrapolate anything that happens during Mardi Gras in New Orleans to the real world.

Bayou Bill :cool:

eta: William, those Mardi Gras mothers are sumpin' else :roll:

[Monkey]

:rolleyes:

If someone had just fired bullets into a crowd and there was a guy bleeding on the pavement, could you really ignore him in favor of more strings of shiny 99 cent beads?

These people had no guarantee that more bullets weren't coming, but rather than get themselves and their families to safety, they kept after those beads. It would seem to be natural human impulse to grieve for the person lying in the street, but these people partied on.

In the face of someone possibly dying in front of them, they didn't lose their taste for frivolity.

That bothers me.

[Joe270]

Monkey, ya gotta remember this is New Orleans. I worked out of there from 1978 to 2001, and it's much more eye-opening than Vegas by a long way.

I think it was in 1999 or 98, maybe someone can find a link, but there were two guys killed in NOLa playing Russian roulette. . . with a semi-auto 9mm.

I wonder what the hell happened there.

'Look, I'm only putting one bullet in the clip which holds 13 rounds, that's way better than a six-shot revolver'

'Okay.' BLAM!

'Hey, I'll try it, no way it can happen twice in one night.' BLAM!

Really. I read it in the Times Picayune newspaper the day after it happened.

[Zoombie]

Those guys won the Darwin Awards, didn't they?

[blacbird]

If someone had just fired bullets into a crowd and there was a guy bleeding on the pavement, could you really ignore him in favor of more strings of shiny 99 cent beads?

In The Easy? Hell yeah. Not a problem. Lessaiz le bontemps roulée!
I lived there 1980-1984, right on St. Charles Avenue, Garden District, and normal human beings who haven't dwelt there are incapable of understanding the pervasive attitude toward these things. Katrina evidently didn't change it none.

caw

[cethklein]

Monkey, ya gotta remember this is New Orleans. I worked out of there from 1978 to 2001, and it's much more eye-opening than Vegas by a long way.

I think it was in 1999 or 98, maybe someone can find a link, but there were two guys killed in NOLa playing Russian roulette. . . with a semi-auto 9mm.

I wonder what the hell happened there.

'Look, I'm only putting one bullet in the clip which holds 13 rounds, that's way better than a six-shot revolver'

'Okay.' BLAM!

'Hey, I'll try it, no way it can happen twice in one night.' BLAM!

Really. I read it in the Times Picayune newspaper the day after it happened.

Don't laugh (ok, go ahead and laugh) but I can top that one. We had a guy killed here about nine months ago playing Russian roulette, except instead of using a gun, they filled five shotglasses with with Coke and one with Coke along with some concoction that I believe included Stric-9. The very first idiot who drank got the tainted glass. It took him five hours to die. It didn't help that he already had alcohol, cocaine, and meth in his system.

But wait, there's more, it didn't end there. Soon afterwords, the moron's mother attempted to sue the three other guys he was donig it with claiming negligence. She claimed they coerced her son into playing the game. (To my knowledge that suit hasn't been resolved yet either.) She's supposedly also petitioned the city to have a memorial buuilt to her son. I'm sorry, but stupidity shouldn't be enshrined.

Those guys won the Darwin Awards, didn't they?

There were a lot of people around here hoping our guy would win one.

[Joe270]

Oh, man, that's not really funny. Isn't death by strychnine really bad, prolonged and tortuously painful?