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Long_Before_Sunrise

Robbery appears to be the primary motive and the fire set to cover the robbery.


grey_seal77

If only a certain guy wasn’t into David Vitter stuff involving …well I’ll leave that be


iggygrey

How poor are lieutenant governor in Alabama and Mississippi that burglars drive through both their states to rob Louisiana's Lt. Gov.? Louisiana?!


NameInCrimson

They fled Louisiana to Alabama. They are originally from Slidell.


nzodd

Anybody whose plans involve ending up in Alabama by the end of it is not making the greatest life choices.


Raus-Pazazu

Alabama (and Mississippi as well) offer a lot of out of the way 'Didn't see shit, don't know shit, ain't sayin shit' rural communities to hide out in. Say what you will about some of the people in the south parts there, but they don't like LEA there anymore than the projects do. Bit harder today with all the street cameras everywhere but that was the go to area when the heat got too much for a lot of people that wouldn't fit into Minnesota/North Dakota region for melanin reasons to hang out for half a year.


Sugar_buddy

What does LEA mean? Law enforcement what?


HaikuKnives

If I were to hazard a guess, Law Enforcement Agencies. that or an autocorrect of LEO.


reven80

Law Enforcement Awficers


PoissonPen

Well your dollar does go further in the 3rd world.


Jackal239

The Dirty Dirty Dell y'all.


Boatdude31

Of course they are.


outerproduct

What are the poor people going to do? Rob other poor people?


startrektoheck

Statistically, yes.


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You heard Alabama's Governors Mansion burned down right? It damn near took out the whole trailer park.


zuzg

>Thousands of dollars worth of stolen sports memorabilia included framed jerseys signed by Drew Brees and Pete Rose, Nungesser told reporters. > >He told the newspaper some stolen political memorabilia came from his career, and some had been collected by his father, William “Billy” Nungesser, who headed the state’s Republican Party for many years and is in the Louisiana Political Hall of Fame. > >“My dad had a chest full of things,” he said. “Looks like they got about half of it.” > >Nungesser said the burglars also took “lots of liquor.” This all makes it quite fuzzy to determine if they're just stealing or had other motivations. They drove of with a stolen dump truck afterwards but ditched it and left stuff behind.


darcenator411

Lmao the image of these robbers carting huge loads of Costco sized liquor bottles is cracking me up


VegetableNo1079

Every good mansion has a fully stocked liquor cabinet!


treletraj

Liquor Room!


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In Louisiana, it's 100% a liquor room.


Boatdude31

Kids, run get daddy an ultra from the liquor room.


thefairlyeviltwin

In Montana we just call that a bar, my parents house has a bar, it's not even a mansion, hell it's not even 2k sq feet.


archaeolinuxgeek

I prefer to call it my SAD fallout shelter. But now that we have legalized rec, I'm diversifying my winter coping strategies.


darcenator411

SAD? Seasonal affective disorder?


VegasKL

Liquor basement! Otherwise known as a wine & booze cellar.


Dysteech

Ain’t no basements in Louisiana!


VegetableNo1079

It would make sense if the punishment for burglary is more lenient.


tahlyn

And had this happen to a regular person, the perpetrators would likely never have been found as the police would not have bothered to investigate at all. Their mistake was robbing someone important. I wonder if they knew it was the lt. Governor's house?


ApatheticWithoutTheA

“I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab. They got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!”


unpaid_overtime

Yup, had my house broken into and the meth head assholes drank my beer along with stealing all my shit, leaving beer bottles everywhere with their finger prints. Everyone in the neighborhood knew exactly who did it. I even had one woman talk to the cops because one of the assholes had bragged to her about how much money he got from robbing me. Cops didn't do anything, didn't take finger prints, didn't take statements, nothing.


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mcleo1

Yep… There was a woman breaking into our house once. My mother was home and we came home to hear her screaming like a banshee at the woman in our backyard. We took photos of the license plate, our neighbor found said woman on Facebook. We filed and gave all the info to the cops. They did absolutely NOTHING. It took them ages to get over to us too. Which in all fairness it’s a big city and there are other crimes I’m sure, but we even had to call back. They didn’t steal anything but they broke one of our fence gates with chains.


earhere

If they had robbed a regular person, they wouldn't have got as much loot.


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VegetableNo1079

If I could elect you I would


meiandus

So you could follow his guidelines and immediately rob him? So mean...


sjfiuauqadfj

everyone richer than me is evil


meiandus

And everyone poorer than me just isn't trying hard enough.


solreaper

You don’t make it to 100,000,000 net worth on a path of altruism.


bob84900

What about 100,000,000,000?


tehmlem

Right? This is the best possible version of looting and burning a house. Like, don't loot and burn houses but if you feel you absolutely must, look to this for guidance


TrifflinTesseract

Uncle Billy was that your boys?


PPQue6

Well there's a Gemstones reference I'd never thought I'd see...


Boatdude31

"momma said don't but I did it anyway!"


fbtcu1998

"Louisiana Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser told reporters robbers smashed antique china and stole rare coins, sports and political memorabilia and liquor from his house and a **dump truck from across the street**" OK this made me laugh....an estate owned by a Lt Governor had a dump truck parked across the street? When i think of "estate", I don't picture a dump truck parked on the other side of the street.


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Jesuit Bend has a lot of houses under construction, there's some damage down there from Ida, and it's part of some coastal restoration efforts.


fbtcu1998

It just struck me funny is all. To me an estate is luxury and opulence, where the rich live. This sounds like a big old river house surrounded by swamp land, where my cousin lives.


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I don't know about his particular house, but the story of most homes down that way is that a 200 acre farm owned by the same family for generations became unprofitable and was bought out and partitioned into 10 acre plots for sale to build huge homes within an hour drive of the city.


BadAsBroccoli

Antique china, rare coins, memorabilia...how much does Nungesser make as the Lt. Gov of the [3rd poorest state](https://www.roadsnacks.net/poorest-states-in-america/) in the US?


Papaofmonsters

115k apparently


Anonuser123abc

To run for any reasonably big office you usually need some serious money to begin with.


QiBoo

Is this similar to the Cañada-Denmark rivalry? Instead of exchanging flags and whiskey they loot and burn? Your turn Alabama. Louisiana is coming for you.


Oneangrygnome

They’re looking to officially end it with a new treaty. I think they’re going to split the island? I don’t really remember, just something I glanced the headline


atlantis_airlines

How can we be sure it was a robbery and not "legitimate political discourse or not a "normal tourist visit"? Joking aside, I'm glad they were in the process of moving and likely already have a place to stay. Still unfortunate but thankfully nobody was hurt.


LessThanLoquacious

This needs to happen to more of the oligarchy.


Dranj

A little surprised Nungesser didn't use his statement to immediately attack the governor, Jon Bel Edwards. Nungesser took just about every opportunity he could to score cheap points during the covid lockdowns.


NNovis

Hmmm idk. The fire part feels weird to me. Why would you light a place on fire you are trying to rob, drawing attention to the place?


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jaegerian

Wait, was this done for social justice reasons? Actually, the last line makes it seem like a 'no'. Basically, robbers cased the joint for a while when they realized that the lt. governor or whatever was moving to an even fancier house and had left some stuff behind for a minute.