Mardi Gras Party Over

Wed., March 8, 2000

Revelers shed inhibitions - and some their clothes - as hundreds of thousands of people jammed the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday for Mardi Gras, the final fling before the austerity of Lent. While families with children gathered along mansion-lined St. Charles Avenue for a day of parades, in the French Quarter a police ban on nudity went mostly unenforced. “I haven’t had a shirt on in five days,” said Ashley Kennedy, a New Orleans bartender. No problems were reported, police Chief Richard Pennington said. The annual celebration is normally trouble-free, and police said most arrests are only for drunkenness and public urination. Mardi Gras ended at midnight Tuesday.

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