Not surprised at this happening. In my youth I made countless trips to the French Quarter and Bourbon Street. It is now a sh#thole and unsafe. If you go there, be careful.

Quote:Nine people were wounded in gunfire on Bourbon Street early Sunday, New Orleans police said. Two of them were listed in critical condition after the shooting around 2:45 a.m. in the 700 block of Bourbon Street, two blocks from Jackson Square and just around the corner from Pat O'Brien's and Preservation Hall.

The shooting victims were taken to nearby hospitals, and the NOPD continued to gather details. No arrests had been made. By 8 p.m. CDT Sunday, two victims remained in critical condition, five were hospitalized in stable condition, and two had been released from the hospital.

New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas told reporters on Sunday afternoon that the Bourbon Street shooting was the result of "two cowardly young men trying to hurt one another."

And because of its iconic New Orleans location, the Bourbon Street shooting quickly generated national news.

Alexis Primeaux, 20, of Slidell, was outside Bourbon Heat when she "heard what I thought was fireworks."

About that same time, a block away, Justin Rock, 29, a bartender at Bourbon Pub and Parade, was ending his shift and meeting up with friends to contemplate a place to eat breakfast.

"At first we heard what sounded like two little pops," Rock said. "My thought at first was it is so close to 4th of July that someone was just being a *******.

"But then it just kept going and kept going."

Rock said the hesitation between the second and third gunshot is what made him realize it wasn't fireworks. By the fourth shot, he and Primeaux told NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune that everyone was running.

"There were bodies everywhere," Primeaux said.

Primeaux said she and her friends ran into Fritzel's European Jazz Pub on Bourbon.

"I pushed my friend through the door because she was in front of me and they were trying to shut the doors," she said. "There was a guy behind me. He was shot."

"He kept on saying, 'I wasn't supposed to be shot!' He was on the ground, and he was saying he was arguing with the guy who was shooting. He said it was an accident, that he wasn't supposed to be shot.

"He was yelling at the guy who had the gun."

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014...eaves.html

Nothing good happens after midnight.

some of our road trips to bourbon street were epic.

Bourbon st is plenty safe for the amount of traffic it gets. Stop acting like you know. This is just a random act of violence. A shame.

(06-29-2014 09:35 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Nothing good happens after midnight.

but nothing very interesting seems to happen before.

(06-29-2014 09:54 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  Bourbon st is plenty safe for the amount of traffic it gets. Stop acting like you know. This is just a random act of violence. A shame.

Yea, nine people get shot, no biggie.

(06-29-2014 09:54 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  Bourbon st is plenty safe for the amount of traffic it gets. Stop acting like you know. This is just a random act of violence. A shame.

So was Newtown.

I lost $20 on Bourbon from a guy saying he knew where I got my shoes at

(06-29-2014 09:54 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  Bourbon st is plenty safe for the amount of traffic it gets. Stop acting like you know. This is just a random act of violence. A shame.

I dunno. back when I was in school, it seemed we were on bourbon street more than we were in class. I have been back virtually every time we went to the staggering drunkeness bowl, and I would say it seemed less safe.

it could just be the difference between being 20, drunk, and immortal then, and now being in my 40s and listening to my wife half shriek, "is that man urinating?!?!?" joke was on her. it wasn't a man. not really.

Just another reason to avoid NO.

(06-29-2014 10:14 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

(06-29-2014 09:54 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  Bourbon st is plenty safe for the amount of traffic it gets. Stop acting like you know. This is just a random act of violence. A shame.

Yea, nine people get shot, no biggie.

Where did I say it was no biggie? GFY

You can all stay in rural MISSISSIPPI. We're good with that.

Somebody got their feelings hurt.

We're black people playing knock out on whites? Why are you posting this?

(06-30-2014 07:00 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  We're black people playing knock out on whites? Why are you posting this?

and imbizzle wins again!

I visited NOLA 1.5 years ago. Had a great time. Didn't spend much time on Bourbon St though.

(06-30-2014 01:01 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  

(06-29-2014 10:14 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

(06-29-2014 09:54 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  Bourbon st is plenty safe for the amount of traffic it gets. Stop acting like you know. This is just a random act of violence. A shame.

Yea, nine people get shot, no biggie.

Where did I say it was no biggie? GFY

You can all stay in rural MISSISSIPPI. We're good with that.

Wow, resorting to the old GFY move. Nice. As for rural Mississippi, you seem to be insinuating that is a bad place to live. That is funny.

(06-30-2014 07:00 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  We're black people playing knock out on whites? Why are you posting this?

That's either a total butchery of grammar or a pretty interesting Freudian slip.

What did you say you taught, again?

(06-30-2014 07:18 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  ...imbizzle ....

(06-30-2014 01:01 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

(06-30-2014 01:01 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  

(06-29-2014 10:14 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

(06-29-2014 09:54 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  Bourbon st is plenty safe for the amount of traffic it gets. Stop acting like you know. This is just a random act of violence. A shame.

Yea, nine people get shot, no biggie.

Where did I say it was no biggie? GFY

You can all stay in rural MISSISSIPPI. We're good with that.

Wow, resorting to the old GFY move. Nice. As for rural Mississippi, you seem to be insinuating that is a bad place to live. That is funny.

Fattest state. Worst education. Facts speak for themselves.

(06-29-2014 10:17 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(06-29-2014 09:54 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  Bourbon st is plenty safe for the amount of traffic it gets. Stop acting like you know. This is just a random act of violence. A shame.

So was Newtown.

Yeah but Newtown didn't involve a black shooter so it isn't important to EagleRock.

He only cares about black people who commit crimes.

(07-01-2014 12:09 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  

(06-30-2014 01:01 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

(06-30-2014 01:01 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  

(06-29-2014 10:14 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

(06-29-2014 09:54 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  Bourbon st is plenty safe for the amount of traffic it gets. Stop acting like you know. This is just a random act of violence. A shame.

Yea, nine people get shot, no biggie.

Where did I say it was no biggie? GFY

You can all stay in rural MISSISSIPPI. We're good with that.

Wow, resorting to the old GFY move. Nice. As for rural Mississippi, you seem to be insinuating that is a bad place to live. That is funny.

Fattest state. Worst education. Facts speak for themselves.

hey, mr. millennial liberal dude. you're dancing awfully close to the same wretched habit of mind that caused miscreant bastards in a different era to insist that minorities were inferior.

a wreckless, general statement is a wreckless, general statement any way you cut it.