NEW ORLEANS — It’s the running of the bulls, New Orleans style. Hundreds of men, women and children, most in white with red scarves around their waists and red bandannas around their necks, gathered outside a French Quarter bar Saturday morning to be chased down Bourbon Street by members of New Orleans’ roller derby league.
“Roller skates and a stampede through the Quarter — what could possibly go wrong?” accountant Jason Medonia said.
The run, in its second year, featured 33 roller girls in horned helmets from teams with names such as Confederacy of Punches and Crescent Wenches.
A few minutes after the runners, the skaters took off. Behind them putted Elvis impersonators on motorized scooters. It all started last year when a friend of organizer Mickey Hanning dressed as a Spanish bull runner for Mardi Gras. Hanning thought it would be fun to get some friends together and have their wives and girlfriends chase them.
