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re: Officer-involved shooting reported in Tigerland
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:44 pm to supadave3
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:44 pm to supadave3
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Crazy. My girlfriend and I were just discussing the Terry Melancon shooting yesterday. She's not from here but met his mother yesterday and asked if I knew the story. The world lost a good dude that day.
Graduated with Terry. Very nice guy. I was literally down the street at a friends on Ingleside that day it happened. Took off work early and was drinking beer with a buddy when news broke.
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SG_Geaux
You went to woodlawn or met him after HS?
eta: that billboard on 110 always brightened my day. See it and think, man i've got alot to be grateful for.
This post was edited on 5/2/14 at 1:46 pm
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Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:48 pm to mikelbr
Tigerland is a cesspool.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:49 pm to mikelbr
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You went to woodlawn or met him after HS?
Met him after high school. We worked together through college.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:50 pm to mikelbr
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Graduated with Terry. Very nice guy.
I didn't know him, but I found out that we had many mutual friends after he passed. Everyone I knew had nothing but great things to say about him.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:50 pm to Sliderstinks
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Tigerland is a cesspool.
It's embarrassing for a state flagship university and SEC school like LSU to have bars and nightlife in this area. Truly disgusting.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:51 pm to Geauxld Finger
quit stirrin the pot, you know he's right
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:52 pm to Paul Allen
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It's embarrassing for a state flagship university and SEC school like LSU to have bars and nightlife in this area. Truly disgusting.
Very true.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:52 pm to supadave3
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I didn't know him, but I found out that we had many mutual friends after he passed. Everyone I knew had nothing but great things to say about him.
I always say this about him. He was a good guy in HS and we got along great, but needless to say he was that good of a guy that he didn't associate with me and my crew on weekends, drinking and fighting in parking lots.
This post was edited on 5/2/14 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:54 pm to Paul Allen
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It's embarrassing for a state flagship university and SEC school like LSU to have bars and nightlife in this area. Truly disgusting.
Yep. Anyone with a lick of sense could develop that area into something better than that dump.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:57 pm to Barry Badrinath
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Yep. Anyone with a lick of sense could develop that area into something better than that dump.
Last Saturday I took son to the game and we were early. So I drove through there to take a gander at the old stomping grounds. Very shocking to see so many fences/gates next to blighted shite holes that were full of life in the 90s.
I noticed at least 4 apts I used to hang out at any time of day with door open, music blaring, no worries.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:58 pm to Barry Badrinath
Any chance that new Nicholson corridor will attract better bars? Tigerland is the worst college nightlife in the SEC hands down.
This post was edited on 5/2/14 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:58 pm to Paul Allen
quote:lots of students end up growing up and go out Downtown or Perkins
It's embarrassing for a state flagship university and SEC school like LSU to have bars and nightlife in this area. Truly disgusting.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:59 pm to Barry Badrinath
The problem is you have a bunch of landlords collecting Section 8 checks every month with tenants that don't require much upkeep.
Developing the area requires sending all those guaranteed checks away. Completely demolishing the area, building it back up and then trying to fill the new apartments. And it's not as if you can just develop one part. It would have to be the entire area, all at once, or it wouldn't work. Isn't going to happen. At least not until it gets so bad that even the bad guys don't want to live there.
Developing the area requires sending all those guaranteed checks away. Completely demolishing the area, building it back up and then trying to fill the new apartments. And it's not as if you can just develop one part. It would have to be the entire area, all at once, or it wouldn't work. Isn't going to happen. At least not until it gets so bad that even the bad guys don't want to live there.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 1:59 pm to mikelbr
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he was that good of a guy that he didn't associate with me and my crew on weekends, drinking and fighting in parking lots.
I understand. He probably wouldn't have been hanging out with me and my crew either. Posted on 5/2/14 at 2:03 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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Any chance that new Nicholson corridor will attract better bars? Tigerland is the worst college nightlife in the SEC hands down.
I have no idea on the better bars, but you are absolutely correct with that last statement.
I didn't really want to tell this story, but I had a friend come down from MSU to visit. Now that is MS State as in Starkville, and they were very disappointed when they went to Tigerland. I didn't really want to go there, but we rode with some friends of mine.
But it's sad when someone who goes to MSU downs your nightlife scene.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 2:16 pm to Paul Allen
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It's embarrassing for a state flagship university and SEC school like LSU to have bars and nightlife in this area. Truly disgusting
Someone should really just take a bulldozer, start at the front and just plow on through (Sorry Fred's). It was getting bad 15 years ago. I imagine it doesn't look much different now than any other slum in the city. The only thing drawing any worthwhile person to that part of town in the college bars.
Like others have said, the problem is that so many of those properties are Section 8. The tenants have zero problem living in squalor as long as they don't have to work or pay anything to do so. The landlords are happy because they get a guaranteed rent check from the government paid to them on-time each month. LSU and BR need to do something, or that cancer is eventually going to spread to nearby areas. Brightside will be next area to turn into a dump if it isn't already. Then it will travel across Nicholson. That would be a great selling point for LSU: "Come visit our campus. Don't mind the ghettos on the north and south part of campus."
Posted on 5/2/14 at 2:27 pm to Alt26
quote:USCW Seems to do ok getting people to visit their campus and they are right smack in the middle of South Central LA. Not exactly a first rate tourist attraction. Also already most of campus is right against the ghetto anyways especially if you head anywhere downtown on Nicholson. I work at at prison, and most of our offenders come from the SSB.
LSU and BR need to do something, or that cancer is eventually going to spread to nearby areas. Brightside will be next area to turn into a dump if it isn't already. Then it will travel across Nicholson. That would be a great selling point for LSU: "Come visit our campus. Don't mind the ghettos on the north and south part of campus."
Posted on 5/2/14 at 3:04 pm to jbgleason
The only way it could be done, you're right, is part by part, but someone would have to buy a big chunk, re-develop it, and hire a 24/7 staff of actual security officers with tazers and non-toy guns. No one in their right mind would let their kid live there otherwise. Once that first one was successful, the other Sec 8 complex owners would get together and raise the for sale prices to where it wouldn't be cost effective to develop the rest of the area.
Doesn't really matter to them because they are guaranteed the same checks every month and don't really have to do any upkeep at all
Doesn't really matter to them because they are guaranteed the same checks every month and don't really have to do any upkeep at all
Posted on 5/2/14 at 3:08 pm to Hammertime
Who are the landlords of these places? Let's have some names.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 3:11 pm to mikelbr
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Graduated with Terry. Very nice guy. I was literally down the street at a friends on Ingleside that day it happened. Took off work early and was drinking beer with a buddy when news broke.
If you don't mind me asking, What exactly happened?
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