MARDI GRAS

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Originally Posted by ReardenSteel

I lived in NOLA when I was 22 with my best friend a couple of blocks off St Charles and Napoleon. Mardi Gras was a blast and a blur. I spent almost every night in the quarter when I lived there. As for sights seen during Mardi Gras, mammaries were shown everywhere you turned, people urinating in the streets. Police using their batons at will, those were the days

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Most don't realize that the flashing and other incedences are mostly out of towners who believe they are normal and an accepted practices. That's why mostly we have a bad ReP. COPS ONLY USING WHAT FORCE IS NEEDED THEY DO NOT BEAT PEOPLE FOR THE SAKE OF BEATING. Just had to set the record straight.

You're right about the depravity being mostly drunk out-of-towners, but you have to wonder why in the first place would they even think it was normal and accepted practices. The city got it's reputation some how. I lived there 18 years ago, so maybe a lot has changed in that time.

In the mid 1960s N.O. could be a dangerous place depending one where and when. The cops, at that time, could be aggressive, as they were then in L.A., depending on where you were, what time it was, what you were doing and what you looked like. They could be dangerous to your health and welfare depending on how you responded and interacted with them. OTOH, the same can be said for about any time or place IME.

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

In the mid 1960s N.O. could be a dangerous place depending one where and when. The cops, at that time, could be aggressive, as they were then in L.A., depending on where you were, what time it was, what you were doing and what you looked like. They could be dangerous to your health and welfare depending on how you responded and interacted with them. OTOH, the same can be said for about any time or place IME.

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It still is a dangerous place. If you don't know where you are or where you are going, it's easy to get into trouble. In fact a guy I knew was killed there and dumped in the Mississippi (sorry to bring a downer into the thread).

The police can certainly be aggressive, but they do have a measure of patience during Mardi Gras, considering how wild it is. Generally, if you follow three simple rules you won't get in trouble. Stay with the group - if they see you are hammered and by yourself they will pick you up for your own safety. Keep your apparatus in your pants - mammaries are OK, below the belt flashing or public urination is not. And lastly, you can drink on the street as long as it is not out of a glass bottle or cup. But most places use plastic or cans so this does not come up often.

I also believe I heard on the radio recently that NOPD is under some sort of Federal investigation for corruption which apparently is quite pervasive in the dept.

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Originally Posted by TheZ

. Keep your apparatus in your pants - mammaries are OK, below the belt flashing or public urination is not. And lastly, you can drink on the street as long as it is not out of a glass bottle or cup. But most places use plastic or cans so this does not come up often.

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BIG MISCONCEPTION, It is not OK you will be warned Once [Maybe]!

They may say that in some official capacity, but at least from what I remember seeing the NOPD doesn't hassle women flashing, unless they are getting out of control or being groped (for their safety).

In some ways, it doesn't sound that different from Bike Wekk n Laconia. It's not uncommon for photo labs to print photos of women just strutting around topless on the boulevard. Dangerous? Well, I've never heard of Mardi Gras being frequented by Hell's Angels.

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Originally Posted by leadduck

In some ways, it doesn't sound that different from Bike Wekk n Laconia. It's not uncommon for photo labs to print photos of women just strutting around topless on the boulevard. Dangerous? Well, I've never heard of Mardi Gras being frequented by Hell's Angels.

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it HAS been