I was going to write about Outkast’s new album, Idlewild, now that I’ve had a week to properly digest it. I’ve since decided to write on a different subject matter.
Last night, a 60 year old woman was mugged, and subsequently hit by her attackers car. When I got there, a minute or two later, she was just sitting in the street, legs splayed.
She could barely talk. I don’t know if it was from getting mugged, or getting hit and falling, or all of the above, but she just seemed too stunned to form words.
It didn’t help that one of the people trying to help her was yelling into the phone at the emergency dispatcher. I took his phone, apologized for his conduct, and gave the dispatcher the info he needed to send out an ambulance. Within another minute or so, about 5 police cars (state, nopd, op sherriff) showed up and started doing their thing. Within 30 minutes, the thieves were apprehended.
Friday night, my friend Mary was jumped and hospitalized for a few days from her injuries. A man, just a few days prior, was confronted by another man toting a (semi?)automatic rifle.
Things are not all well in the Marigny, kids. I don’t need to bring up the slew of robberies and homicides that have been happening since the storm. For those of you who don’t live here, trust me. It’s obscene.
I’m just tired of it.
“We’re not against rap. We’re not against rappers. But we are against those thugs.”
– Bone Thugs n’ Harmony, Thuggish Ruggish Bone
Its been a bit like the Wild Wild West around areas in the Quarter as well. I pretty much don’t go anywhere by myself after dark. I always employ someone from the Lower D Bodyguard Service to walk me home.
if everyone were armed this would stop immediately. it would be like trying to rob a bar or mug someone in the old west. they’d just give up trying if all the patrons of, say the recently robbed mimi’s, had a .45 stuffed in their pants and the bartender had a shotgun slung over her shoulder. i say we bring back ‘wanted’ posters too. people down there need money. 10k bounty per criminal – signs stapled right to the lightposts. no kidding, this crap would be over in three months.
That really sucks about your friend. I hope she recovers quickly.
And is it really, really bad that I knew what you were quoting before I got to the second sentence?