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until the Iberville Housing project gets completely torn down, and Mayor Landrieu has said he doesnt want to tear it down yet, stay out of the French Quarter past ten o'clock at night.

The tourist abducted and tortured in that project a couple years ago, the Boudreaux fight, the repeated random shootings on bourbon when crowds form(superbowl), the activist who was mudered going home to the bywater, and rumors of people getting roofies slipped into their drinks by gangs looking to rob them or aduct women. Now, Douglas Schantz, a parent of a Tulane Senior and a Tulane Energy institue Bd Member and donor, goes missing after leaving Razoo at 2am.

Look, I personally know a guy who had a roofie slipped into his drink at a bar on bourbon street by some young gang members , who obviously walked to the quarter in a group, and he luckily was not by himslef and got spirited away from the bar when they figured out he was drugged. Girls are being warned to specifically stay away from Razoo now because of the attempts to slip drugs into their drinks there.

All of this crap is emanating from one place more than any other: the Iberville Project and the surrounding Treme neighborhood, their gangs.

Stay out. I hope that Douglas Schantz is found healthy. Bad things are happening in the French Quarter and it's very obvious why. Just because it is obvious doesnt mean that the problem will be solved before you get there next time.

Personally Speaking .... I prefer "The Brat Stop" in Kenosha County. You don't have to stay until 2:00 am to have some fun.

Why stop at one stereotype?

Perhaps it was the Latino lunch truck vendors? They are outlawed in several outlying Parishes and we all know they "fed" the folks that helped rebuild New Orleans!

Or what about the Lucky Dog sellers? They have been trying to whack both locals and unsuspecting tourists for years being the New Orleans equivalent of South American drinking water...

Seriously, I hope the Tulane parent is found safe .

Evergreenie, if this is the case it would be good to edit your original post and header IMO.
Looks like no foul play according to Police press conference today...............

Missing Houston businessman may have fallen into Mississippi River, police believe........
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/201 ... n_bus.html



Body found in river..................
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/201 ... n_bus.html

Evergreenie's post should remain exactly as it is, an exploitation of a family tragedy to advance a malignant and bigoted personal agenda.

I'll say this, though. We don't yet know how he died. It absolutely flies in the face of the "usual" robbery/murder in New Orleans as few of those malefactors would go to the length of hiding a body to cover their tracks.
The autopsy results will be interesting, to say the least. What a terrible ordeal for the family. I'm sure all our thoughts and prayers go out to them.

Apparently they found his body:

from the T-P

The body found this morning underneath a dock near the river boat Natchez has been identified as that of missing Houston executive Douglas Schantz, said New Orleans police spokesman Janssen Valencia about 1:20 p.m. Valencia said the body had the clothing fitting the descriptions of what Shantz was wearing, and he still had on all of his jewelry

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/201 ... _doug.html

the jewelry, etc would seem to indicate no foul play........which would put the racist drivel posted above in a pretty sad light, IMO

sad story, may he rest in peace.

Tough on the family. I wish I could say I had never been so inebriated that I lost my way in the Quarter, but that is not true. For the grace of God go many.

Never pre-judge and never post stuff online that you would not say in person, without the anonimity of the net.

Evergreen apology? Be a man.

not sure if an autopsy will be done, or not. The man, according to police, was "acting confused, or dazed". That is indicative of heavy drinking, but also indicative of a "roofy"..

We won't know, for sure, unless an autopsy is peformed, and the results released to the public.

Either way, a true tragedy for him, and his family.

Still seems odd to me. Why would he be walking, by himself, from Boubon to the river? That's a pretty fair distance, and away from his hotel.

Agreed Dave and of course that difficult decision is up to the family who has many things on their minds currently.

Our prayers and condolences go out to the Schantz family for their loss. It is sad to lose a family member no matter the circumstances. God bless all of you...




FINALLY certain individuals must learn the true ethical equivalency of the "Boy who cried wolf" story moral. By posting unnecessary “blame” the accusations were inappropriate at best and contemptible at worst especially considering all the facts were not known. Furthermore this subject dealt not only with the life of a member of the Tulane family but a real man's life; not a fictitious episode of CSI. To blatantly and stereotypically accuse one group of a heinous crime before even minimal evidence is discovered, based on ones' personal ideology and prejudices is worse than the national media’s tainted representation of New Orleans during and after Katrina. On YOGWF, we see the city many on this forum live, many of us went to college, many of us have children living and the city where potential students and parents are looking to spend the next four years. This city was maligned by this unacceptable "fire in the theater" ravings. Now is the time to cease the typical internet drivel, media accusations and vacuous talk show-like harangue and demonstrate that which we are truly good at…human decency.

Read todays NOLA story. http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/201 ... ive_e.html
A quote from his son.............

Read that after I posted...still seems weird to me, but more plausible at any rate.

Autopsy already done - in a case like this, the family has no say in whether or not one is performed - any death where there is no known cause of death gets one (exceptions are when you die in a hospital, under a doctor's care, etc.) From what I understand, he drowned after falling into the river and had hit his head prior to falling in (probably on the rocks below). A tox screen was run and since there was a short window between when he left the bar and passed on, everything in his system at the time of death will show up - like a "roofie" (if there was one which I doubt) - since his body did not have the time to matabolize (sp?) it.

My personal opinion is that this is a trajic accident. As TPS posted above, but for the grace of God ... I know I have walked to the fly from Uptown bars at night to sit and watch the river. Smart - no way. But I did it and know many others who have as well.

May he rest in peace and may his family find some comfort in knowing that he is in a better place.

Hope his family quickly finds peace. So sorry to lose someone who saw how special Tulane can be. I wished I could have met him.