Are we having fun yet?

-- (Post-Intelligencer@Seattle.WA), March 10, 2001

Answers

so much for the wonderful hi-tech age. brains get fuller----hearts getting colder. and it's just begun!!!!!

-- al-d (dogs@zianet.com), March 10, 2001.

I was going to visit New Orleans on vacation this year. To hell with that city. This kind of stuff happens all the time to tourists there, when the sun has set, or they inadvertently stray one street to far.

Instead, I'll visit a southern city with equivalent history and character. I'll spend my money in Charleston where I'll feel safe walking the old streets, where the city keeps it clean and welcomes tourists.

Big Easy! No thanks, I can just visit my own local squalid crime pits.

-- bb (bostonbob@globalreach.com), March 10, 2001.

The incident happened in Seattle.

-- (JimGarrison@big.easy), March 10, 2001.

This kind of incident can happen anywhere; it isn't inherent to New Orleans, or Seattle, or any major city. You have incidents like this (and WORSE) in the safety of the 'burbs, in the hallowed fields of middle America. "We NEVER thought it could happen HERE" is a rather common statement these days no matter where you stand.

You're missing one hell of a city in New Orleans if you let something that happened a couple of thousand miles away from there stop you. You're missing some of the greatest people, greatest food, greatest music, incredible architecture and history.....the list goes on.

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), March 10, 2001.

If those who battered this young woman were literate enough to read this article (highly unlikely), they'd no doubt think it was hysterically funny. That really is the point. Sociopathy has increased with each new generation. Forcing the perpetrators to see the face of their victims accomplishes nothing. We must look elsewhere for answers.

-- (I'm a@little.teapot), March 11, 2001.