Wow, I just got back from New Orleans this weekend, usually touted as
the place to go for Mardi Gras/ Fat Tuesday. There musta been 300,000 drunken half-naked people there in the French Quarter, but for all that, they were very civilized... a little pushing through the closer-than-your-own-skin crowd was about as rowdy as it got... even the bead-beer-and-clothing throwing was pretty civilized compared to a riot...
I did see groups of police standing around everywhere, but only one arrest the whole night... amazing.
