C-T Cultural Review: “Sheriff” Foti’s Haunted House Featured New Frightening Attractions

With Halloween just past, parents were looking to celebrate Halloween in a way only New Orleans can: by sending their children into a scary house filled with convicted criminals with minimal supervision and masks.

“This was to be the most frightening haunted realm, I mean house, ever,” said one machette-toting convict in an orange OPP jumpsuit.

“And just because he’s moved on to bigger and better positions in state government, doesn’t mean we can’t still call him Sheriff.”

There were some changes this year. Most notably the name-and new corporate sponsors.

Children now had new nightmares because of the “Southern Comfort Presents The State of Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti’s Haunted House Sponsored by Freeport McMoran.”

The revamped haunted house included such new, horrifying rooms as:

The Unevacuated Nursing Home
The Memorial Hospital Euthanasia Ward
The Famous Historical West End Landfill
The Corrupt Orleans Parish Judges’ Courtroom
William Jefferson’s Freezer of Lies
David Vitter’s Whorehouse of Horrors

And most terrifying of all: Waiting for Supplies at the Ernest Morial Convention Center.

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