April Fool’s joke or mischievous spirits to blame for flood?
St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard, right, shows where smelly water flooded Room 206 in the St. Landry Parish Courthouse on Monday. With Bellard is Van Reed, director of emergency preparedness and a parish administrator.
The St. Landry Parish Courthouse on Thursday. A mysterious flood occurred there on Monday, but there have been other happenings. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)
St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard, right, holds a piece metal that he and parish worker, John Rubin, said flew out of the wall to to the right and fell to the floor on Tuesday. “I wish I wouldn’t have seen it,” Rubin said on Thursday. Bellard said a group of people was in the former basement boiler room when the incident occurred. “We didn’t say long after that,” Bellard said. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
There are some strange happenings at the St .Landry Parish Courthouse.
“It is unbelievable,” said Parish President Jessie Bellard of what’s been going on there.
“So, Monday whenever they came here and told me about the water leak, I thought it was an April Fool’s joke” he said Thursday in his new basement office.
“I went upstairs and it was pouring from one end all the way to th...
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