Thursday, February 16, 2012
Endymion's Progress: Thursday afternoon
Posted by Kevin Allman on Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Aaaaand we have our first campers on Orleans Avenue, waiting for Saturday's Krewe of Endymion parade. Meet Super Dave and his friend Chris Mendel:
Super Dave arrived last night and spent the night on the neutral ground. All he had out there was a chair, which raised the question: No sleeping bag? "I keep the sleeping bag in the port-o-let," Super Dave said. "It's big enough in there."
Chris is Super Dave's friend. He's not going to be watching Endymion —Â he's going to be riding in it. "The parade is 2/18 and Chris was born on 2/18," Super Dave said. "And he's going to be riding on float 18. Put that in the paper."
Meanwhile, other port-o-lets are springing up on the neutral ground, like mushrooms after a spring rain:
More sights under the cut —Â including the RV park that's sprung up on N. Carrollton Avenue ...
Caution tape warns paradegoers away from this prime spot on Orleans Avenue. Get your own space!
Can you see the string outlining the rectangle? My first studio apartment was about half the size of this.
All the comforts of home in a vacant lot on N. Carrollton Avenue. Enjoy it now before Winn Dixie spoils the fun.
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It's like the genesis of a brand new "Reality Show"......... or Trailer Park!
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I said it yesterday and I'll say it again today... it is ridiculous that the city doesn't do something about this. It wouldn't take much for them to send two guys and one truck down the route pulling up all the stakes and ropes.
I agree - it's ridiculous that people are roping off public property for their own use. These are the a-holes who'll start a fight with you if you cross their 'property line'. Rope, string, caution tape ... none of this should be allowed.
Every year I try to enjoy Endymion, and every year I get in a fight with some pompous asshole who tells me that I'm "in their spot" and that they've "been here sine Monday" and oh ok you can stand here but just "don't go near my kids". People in this city get so nasty about two things: PUBLIC parking spots and PUBLIC parade spots. Ugh.
I took my toddler over last year. Dirty looks and a father son team that snatched everything from right in front of my face or over my head that was meant for the baby. Couldn't even see the floats. Left in disgust.
One year the NOPD did confiscate ladders, coolers everything imaginable. was not an easy nor an organized task. At the end of the day you were told you could collect your belongings on Monday over by City Park station but there wasn't any way to tag anything so people were in there willy nilly saying just about everything was theirs. They had people walking out with 5 ladders, coolers and chairs galore. It was pure madness. They never did that again. It was pure chaos.
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