You know what's scary? Not knowing if that bang is a gun shot or a firecracker.

originalpckelly

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Sun Jul-08-07 10:55 PM
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You know what's scary? Not knowing if that bang is a gun shot or a firecracker.

Let's hope it's a firecracker. :scared:

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yewberry

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Sun Jul-08-07 11:09 PM
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1. You just described last night's festivities.

Four different times, a couple of reports went off from an upper floor of my building. Hard to tell for me--I'm unfamiliar with guns. There was no lightshow, though, just a kind of a blue-white flash, so I was assuming it was gunfire.

I just love my neighborhood.

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originalpckelly

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Sun Jul-08-07 11:19 PM
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2. We're kind of in this weird place.

It's a redevelopment, so on one side we have the other neighborhoods, the one's that have been there for 50+ years, and where I live is recent development only 2 or 3 years old.

Down the street from where we live is really ritzy property. Within a couple of blocks it's like a slice of the American economy.

Well, anyway, the place out back is known to have shootings so I'm just a *little* worried about what I heard earlier.

The interval between the bangs was so that you could imagine someone pulling the trigger.

I didn't hear screams though, so that might be a good sign.

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benEzra

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Mon Jul-09-07 09:03 AM
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3. Firearm muzzle flashes are orange, if that helps. (n/t)

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DS1

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Mon Jul-09-07 09:18 AM
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4. within a reasonable distance, the sound of a gun firing will typically

have a much lower 'oomph' to it rather than a firecracker's extremely sharp and high-pitched 'report'. screaming of sorts usually comes before and after gunshots, unless they're in the home at night

if there's more than one firecracker on the string, they'll go off faster than most people can shoot

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