Horses are on duty!
Feb. 28th, 2003 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI live in a section of downtown Seattle called Pioneer Square - it's the historic district and there is a lot of cool stuff down here (besides me) including a lot of really good jazz bars. About 10 years ago the community association decided that this would be the perfect spot for a Mardi Gras celebration. So they started making a big deal out of Mardi Gras every year.
People in Seattle - mainly young people - got with the program. They had seen New Orleans on the news so they knew it was the time to get drunk and get nakid and get crazy. It got wilder every year. Two years ago it hit riot stage. Three nights in a row. On the final night, a kid was killed in the riot.
Last year they put the kibosh on it pretty much. Not much went on. This year they are kind of talking out of both sides of their mouths - come on down for Mardi Gras and don't do anything.
In the street between my terrace and the parking lot across the street, they often park the police horse vans and then use the neighborhood to give the horses some work. Usually it's a van at a time. Tonight there are three of them - 4 horses with their mounted police in each one. And they have just moved out towards the action.
I'll be here - inside my living room - watching TV and reading my new mystery novel. No horses. No cops. I may get nakid, we'll see.
People in Seattle - mainly young people - got with the program. They had seen New Orleans on the news so they knew it was the time to get drunk and get nakid and get crazy. It got wilder every year. Two years ago it hit riot stage. Three nights in a row. On the final night, a kid was killed in the riot.
Last year they put the kibosh on it pretty much. Not much went on. This year they are kind of talking out of both sides of their mouths - come on down for Mardi Gras and don't do anything.
In the street between my terrace and the parking lot across the street, they often park the police horse vans and then use the neighborhood to give the horses some work. Usually it's a van at a time. Tonight there are three of them - 4 horses with their mounted police in each one. And they have just moved out towards the action.
I'll be here - inside my living room - watching TV and reading my new mystery novel. No horses. No cops. I may get nakid, we'll see.
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