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struggle4progress

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19. Eight shooting incidents along parade routes since 2004

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 08:59 PM

Feb 2015

... The area around Thursday's shooting has been on police radar for some time, Harrison said. As the Krewe of Chaos made its way along St. Charles near Erato in 2012, two teenagers were shot on their legs and a 16-year-old arrested in the shooting. The 2008 Mardi Gras season saw five shootings near parades, including one man wounded in the arm on St. Charles near Terpsichore Street. During the 2004 Muses parade, a 20-year-old woman was shot and killed and three others wounded in what police at the time called a fight between rival groups of young men ...

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/02/in_mardi_gras_parade_shooting.html

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Shooting Along Mardi Gras Parade Route In New Orleans Kills 1, Injures Another [View all] Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 OP

Getting drunk and raising hell is a religion? Fumesucker Feb 2015 #1

Actually it is. Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #2

I know that, I was being silly Fumesucker Feb 2015 #5

Can we just have the orgy, and leave it at that? TheCowsCameHome Feb 2015 #6

Getting drunk and raising hell is a very ancient and wide-spread religion struggle4progress Feb 2015 #20

Mardi Gras is the 17th GreatGazoo Feb 2015 #3

In NO it is a long celebration. Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #4

Except the headline refers to the Mardi Gras Route, not Mardi Gras. rug Feb 2015 #13

The only prayer I've ever heard at Mardi Gras okasha Feb 2015 #14

The only Direction I was given on the route is "Walk". rug Feb 2015 #15

Ha Ha! Good one. fleur-de-lisa Feb 2015 #8

Laissez les bon temps rouler ! GreatGazoo Feb 2015 #9

Mardi Gras started as a religious event.... pipoman Feb 2015 #7

Second Victim of Shooting at New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade Dies KamaAina Feb 2015 #10

Lent is a religious event. KamaAina Feb 2015 #11

Lame attempt. rug Feb 2015 #12

I think he's hit the "quiet desperation" bar. okasha Feb 2015 #16

I've seen wittier posts by people who have just left a bar, having been there several hours. rug Feb 2015 #17

A teenager with a gun: what could possibly go wrong? struggle4progress Feb 2015 #18

Eight shooting incidents along parade routes since 2004 struggle4progress Feb 2015 #19