re: January 1, 2025: Multiple casualties on Bourbon Street after terrorist attack..

Video is from "just after midnight". I wonder what all he did for the 3 hours leading up to 3am, the drive might have taken 30 minutes tops I'd imagine

I agree about the bollards in general aren’t going to stop terrorism. That’s just stupid to think.

Just in this situation they would have is my point.

We had them in storage for god sakes.

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bet there are 10-year olds that could have come up with ways to keep that truck from getting onto Bourbon from Canal...

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If the cops would have been paying attention and not sitting in their car, they may have stopped him.

He may have waited until 3:00 because the first 50 times he passed there were cars and cops there.

There arent cop cars sitting at Iberville, bienville, conti...

All of those intersections are open and cars can easily turn down bourbon if they want.

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True, but the more obstacles, the more difficult it is, the more likely someone is deterred or detected

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Exactly

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You are correct on those intersections. But he didn’t enter at any of those intersections. Maybe he tried and chose not to for some reason. Maybe there were cops not fricking off at those locations.

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He didn’t enter st those intersections because they are, ironically, extremely difficult to pass through.

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He didn’t enter st those intersections because they are, ironically, extremely difficult to pass through

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Not at all

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He didn’t enter st those intersections because they are, ironically, extremely difficult to pass through.

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People like to assume real life is like
Hollywood and this guy was planning this for months. But in reality it doesn’t appear he was and to a large degree he seemed to have winged some things. It’s possible he did do some scouting, the bollards had been up in the past so it’s possible he had a plan and something changed them. It’s possible he walked Bourbon earlier in the night and made a plan for certain reasons.

I don’t think this guy was a rocket scientist, but I also am going to assume he had some reasons beyond our conceivable knowledge with the limited information we have at this time.

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All of those intersections are open and cars can easily turn down bourbon if they want.

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Bourbon street should have been completely blocked off by bollards (including the sidewalks) in every direction 20 years ago.

Yeah. It’s hindsight. But it’s true.

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think evil is going to find a way. Bollards might have helped those specific people at that location but I think they would have just caused him to find a different street with people on it.

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Look at this guy-

Plan A was kill his family and he quickly fell to plan b here.

Who knows what c would have been?

Ultimately we don’t know.

Maybe he crashes immediately, failing with the truck like he did the bombs and fire.


Maybe he goes and jumps off a bridge killing just himself.

Maybe he goes to join isis for real and is tortured mercilessly

Maybe he finds somewhere to kill more people

What he wouldn’t have done is run 14 people over in the truck on bourbon street though. You make the easy shots harder and hope a perpetual loser like this finds a way to fail or gives up.