Shooting Along Mardi Gras Parade Route In New Orleans Kills 1, Injures Another

[Warren Stupidity]

Mardi Gras is a religious event. A person at a religious event shot people. We should be drawing conclusions right fucking now. Please proceed.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One person was killed and another wounded in a New Orleans shooting along a Mardi Gras parade route in uptown, police said.

Police spokesman Frank Robertson said there was an altercation around 10 p.m. Thursday during which a person produced a gun and shot two people.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/13/new-orleans-shooting_n_6675684.html

[Fumesucker]

1. Getting drunk and raising hell is a religion?

Throw me some beads, mister.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Actually it is.

It is the orgy before the fast. Are you disputing that mardi gras is a religious celebration?

Mardi Gras (/ˈmɑrdiɡrɑː/), also Fat Tuesday[1][2][3][4][5] in English, refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Epiphany or King's Day and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", reflecting the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras

[Fumesucker]

5. I know that, I was being silly

I've been in the Quarter on Fat Tuesday, an interesting experience but not one I'm in any rush to repeat.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Can we just have the orgy, and leave it at that?

[struggle4progress]

20. Getting drunk and raising hell is a very ancient and wide-spread religion

[GreatGazoo]

3. Mardi Gras is the 17th

so what was 2/12? Thursday Gras?

[Warren Stupidity]

4. In NO it is a long celebration.

[rug]

13. Except the headline refers to the Mardi Gras Route, not Mardi Gras.

You're really flailing with this, Warren.

[okasha]

14. The only prayer I've ever heard at Mardi Gras

is "Pleezpleezpleez make this hangover go away!"

[rug]

15. The only Direction I was given on the route is "Walk".

[fleur-de-lisa]

8. Ha Ha! Good one.

I live in New Orleans. The carnival season lasts for several weeks, with the culmination being on the big day, Mardi Gras (or Fat Tuesday). There are about 50-60 parades in the Greater New Orleans area during the season, most in New Orleans proper, but with many others in outlying communities like Metairie, Gretna and Slidell.

If you aren't into parades, it kind of sucks. Even little things like grocery shopping and putting gas in the car have to be planned ahead to avoid the Mardi Gras madness. Major streets along the parade routes are shut down hours ahead of each krewe rolls. And then abruptly at midnight on Mardi Gras, it all ends and the sanitation crews are out in full force to dispose of tons of trash by about 6:00 am. It's quite amazing that they are able to accomplish this in a few hours.

[GreatGazoo]

9. Laissez les bon temps rouler !

[pipoman]

7. Mardi Gras started as a religious event....

Virtually nobody coming in for Mardi Gras these days is there for a religious pilgrimage...or anything related to religion for that matter....they are there for a party and to see scanty clad folks....

[KamaAina]

10. Second Victim of Shooting at New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade Dies

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/second-victim-shooting-new-orleans-mardi-gras-parade-dies-n305611

Two men were killed when shots rang out along a Mardi Gras parade route Thursday night, according to police in New Orleans.

Multiple shots were heard about 10 p.m. as the Krewe of Muses parade was in session, authorities said. A 21-year-old victim died at the hospital Thursday night after being shot in a chest, and a 22-year-old victim died at the hospital Friday, according to the New Orleans Police Department. The suspect, John Hicks, 19, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of using a firearm during a crime of violence on a parade route, police said.

Despite the violence, the parade continued as police officers set up barriers around the crime scene, NBC station WDSU reported.

[KamaAina]

11. Lent is a religious event.

The religious component of Mardi Gras has long been even smaller than that of Christmas.

[rug]

12. Lame attempt.

[okasha]

16. I think he's hit the "quiet desperation" bar.

[rug]

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

[struggle4progress]

18. A teenager with a gun: what could possibly go wrong?

...  Police said John Hicks .. pulled the trigger that sent two men to the hospital Thursday (Feb. 12) ... One victim, a 21-year-old man, was struck by a bullet in the chest and died in surgery ... Another man, 22, suffered a gunshot wound to the neck, and died Friday morning ... Hicks is a student at Landry-Walker High School ...

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

[struggle4progress]

19. Eight shooting incidents along parade routes since 2004

... 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