BBQ festival

As if this city is really that boring...

Nonetheless, with all of the different crap to do on a late weekend night, a group of law students decide to pass up Voodoo Fest, Haunted Houses, and the random trip to Bourbon Street to go watch a house burn. That's what we do in law school. Or at least that's what we do in our spare time. A group of my law school friends decided to pass up on a Haunted House trip and just hit a bar a two. While leaving one of the bars, one guy in our group stated, "Hey, where are all these firetrucks going? Oh, crap! There are flames down the road. Let's go check it out." So, that was the entertainment for the evening. As we're walking down the road, another guy said, "You know what's great about this city? At home I wouldn't have been allowed to carry my Jack & Coke outside of the bar to walk down the road to watch the fire department extinguish a fire. I don't know what I'll do once I take a job in a normal city." When we arrived at the scene, there was a crowd consisting of well over 100 people. Of those people, I'd say 75 had drinks with them. So we stood around and watched the fire department try to contain the fire as it started to spread to neighboring houses. The local paper reported it to be a 4-alarm fire. Apparently it was an arson. It was quite amazing watching the fire department break out the hook and ladders. The funny thing about the whole situation (if watching a fire could be funny...thinking about it morally) was how people would make trips to and from the closest bar just so they had beverages for the popular attraction.