re: #296 Eclectic Cyborg

God, people are fucking idiots.

The city of Biloxi, MS has a Mardi Gras night parade every year on the Saturday before Fat Tuesday.

As you might expect, given the popularity of Mardi Gras in these parts, finding parking for the event can be a pain in the ass.

There are train tracks that run east-west through the city less than a mile north of the city center, where the beaches and casinos are.

Last night, not one, not two, but THREE fucking morons parked so close to those tracks that their cars were hit by an oncoming train.

Now thank god no one was hurt, but the train had to stop for an extended period of time and that caused the parade to stop (because the route,
which went over said tracks, was now not accessible) for an extended period.

I hope those three assholes see their insurance go through the damn roof.

Our New Orleans tech family takes Mardi Gras week off and goes to an RV site to escape.

My father was a Yat and Catholic as well, and he never went to Mardi Gras. I found this out when I asked him what Mardi Gras was like in the 1920s and 30s.