re: How many of you have actually had something bad happen to you in nola?

1. 19 yo, me & a best friend got jumped by some of the locals that frequent Canal & Bourbon, on Bourbon St. and one of them double hopped me from the side with a baseball bat, woke up in Charity Hospital with a crushed cheek bone. Only reason we knew it was a baseball bat was video footage from a restaurant.

2. Was held up at Gunpoint in my face by what was called “THE Christmas Day Killer” back in December 2007. He shot & killed & injured over a handful of people within a week, I was one of the lucky ones that got out of it. He was supposedly a hit-man for a drug gang, was in jail & got accidentally let out of OPP. So he went on a crime spree uptown, then fled Nola & was tracked down by US marshals in an Atlanta motel parking lot, they had a shootout & he actually was shot & killed, thank God. The dude was a cold-blooded killer & I thank God I was saved every time I think about it. Only reason I know it was him is because he had huge scar on his face. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to pick him out in a lineup (of which, I never had to do that). But that was one of those situations where you just need to be calm & you don’t really know what to do. I just stayed calm & used some street skills to talk my way into him not pulling the trigger.

But that was single scariest moment where I thought I was a gonner!

** and many of other fights growing up in the city, it’s a rough place to grow up, but it was much different back in the 90’s and pre-Katrina. It’s lost so much of its allure to me over the years & now it’s just sad where it’s at now.