July 25th, 1805

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1805 ex-Vice President Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with plans to establish a new country, with New Orleans as the capital city. That was until he made an early morning visit to Bourbon Street on July 26th and then regained consciousness three days later naked except for his ascot, shoes and vague, fuzzy memories of a three legged stripper doing shots of tequila, six drunk dwarves dancing down the street leading a funeral parade, learning to play the mandolin with the ghost of Jimi Hendrix, and arguing with Nostradamus about the wheels of the bus that go round and round. He quietly left town and decided that he’d be better off practicing law in New York.

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About Joel Byers

Born in North Georgia and educated at some very fine public institutions. Real education started after graduating from college and then getting married and raising two boys. Has the ability to see the funny and absurd in most things and will always remark on it, even if it means getting the stink-eye from his victims.
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One Response to July 25th, 1805

  1. Everything I Know I Learned From TV says:
    July 26, 2014 at 4:58 am

    His law practice was so successful that he only ever lost twice, and yet inexplicably he suddenly changed professions and became a police detective, shortly before getting shot and ending up in a wheel chair.

    Of course none of this explains how he got away with killing his wife years earlier, even though a neighbor watched him do it.

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