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Unitarian association accepting donations for two workers beaten in New Orleans attack
By adamg on Sat, 07/01/2017 - 9:48am
UU World reports that one of two Unitarian Universalist Association IT workers from the Boston area remains hospitalized with an "acute brain injury" after he and the other worker were beaten and robbed by four men as they walked in New Orleans last Saturday evening during an association conference there.
The UUA staff assistance fund is accepting donations from people who want to help the two workers - Tim Byrne and James Curran, who was released from the hospital after treatment for a broken nose and other injuries.
Police have arrested four men for the attack.
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One simply does not wander around New Orleans
Unless you are fearless or suicidal. Sympathies to the victims.
Uh
There is a large convention center in New Orleans that is walking distance to the French Quarter. It consistently has large conferences of up to 50,000 people at a time, which means the people attending these conferences need to walk and take public transportation to and from their hotels, the convention center, meals, and other ancillary events hosted around the city regarding the conference (sub-committees, workgroup dinners, socials, etc.) Significant others and families often tag along to these conferences, to sightsee during the day.
Granted, New Orleans has had a significant uptick in crime since I was last there for a conference. However, the way the convention center is laid out onto the city, it is virtually impossible to attend a conference there and deem someone "suicidal" for walking around the city as a means of getting from point A to point B.
Nonsense
Lighting strikes, bees swarm, buses hit people, and very rarely someone gets strong arm robbed. That's life, the luck of the draw.
The real story here is yet again people needing donations to pay for healthcare in our terrible, non good system that relies on charity instead of a system where people can afford it.
Unfortunate
That this happened. You'd figure that at 9pm it'd still be safe to walk in a major city. I guess not.
It was goddamn 9 pm in a
It was goddamn 9 pm in a tourist area. Nice victim blaming there.
One simply does not make such statements ...
When it is abundantly clear that one has not been to said city since the 1980s - if ever!.
I went on a work trip there in 2010 - no problems.
My husband was there very recently and went out to the clubs at night. No problems.
Turn off your TV and get out of your house once in a while, sheesh.
Ms,
Why do you always resort to condescending put downs and insults? You were responding to my post:
1) I NEVER watch TV
2) I do 'get out' EVERY day, and have travelled EXTENSIVELY. I am from NYC and Boston, not rural Washington State.
3) I have a very good friend from NOLA, he frequently travels back to it (the city, not suburbs), and he assures me it's a dangerous city with one of the highest violent crime rates in the country.He also assures me that tourists are robbed and assauled all the time. Ill take his word, the word of a native, over your husband's brief business trip.
As an interesting aside:
NOLA natives do not have southern accents and in fact, when I first met my friend in college, I thought he was from Eastern MA, or maybe R.I. He told me he was N.O. born and raised, working class family, and had a typical N.O. native accent.