Something Still Stinks to Me

This SDT illegal dumping story has me very confused. Clay sent me this link to the story. Apparently this guy is trying to frame Sidney Torres and stole the truck. This would be easier for me to digest if the truck wasn’t being parked in St. Bernard Parish. This story goes against everything I have ever known about the St. Bernard Parish sheriff’s department. For the folks that are not familiar with the layout of New Orleans let me give you a quick geography lesson. St. Bernard Parish neighbors the Lower Ninth Ward. I have spent lots of time in St. Bernard Parish during my life. Crabbing is one of my favorite pastimes and that’s where we go. There are good folks in Hopedale and Yscloskey. There are pretty sisters in Violet. We also did a lot of shopping and things in St. Bernard so I am not hating on the place. However, there is one thing that everyone who grew up in my area of New Orleans knows and that is that when night fall comes the sheriffs department in St. Bernard does not play around especially with brothers who don’t live down there. I know a guy named Nat who was once driven to the city line and told never to step foot in Arabi again. This is the same area where my family was once pulled over in my dad’s van for riding through a residential neighborhood so they could look at Christmas lights during the holiday season. They didn’t get harassed or anything but the message was clear that there would be no foolishness going on.

Somehow this young black guy managed to go to a closed business, steal a truck (which the keys were conveniently left in along with an unlock gate and a full tank full of piss and shit) drive it out of the city, dump it, then drive it back to where he got it from and still manage to get in his ride and make it home. That means he got in and out of St. Bernard Parish doing illegal business after hours twice! Either Katrina has really changed the approach to crime in St. Bernard Parish or the guy who managed to pull this off should be sent to the Middle East to look for Bin Laden because he has a special gift. I am not saying Sidney Torres is lying. I’m saying it goes against everything I have ever known about the area this crime occurred. Something doesn’t seem right about this to me and I find it amazing how people can believe this so easily when they question every other explanation for every other incident that happens in this city.

Let me get this straight. The mayor can say that someone made a mistake and deleted his emails and he has to go to court and pay a fine because no one believes him but Sidney Torres can say that a disgruntled ex employee made his way to St. Bernard Parish to steal a truck from a million dollar company and get lucky enough to find the one with the keys in it and a tank full of waste. He then drove it through an unlock gate dumped it in the Ninth Ward and drove the truck back to the same spot and this makes logical sense? My logic must be really off because this explanation is not cutting it for me. At the least someone needs to explain why tanks of waste are sitting overnight so close to my house.