Gunshots?

Well, she did put it in quotes...

Actually, this board has ended up changing the way I look at the block I have lived on for four years! Just a little, but that makes me feel bad. As a native New Yorker, I should be immune to minor panics!

As for gunshots, there was a second series of bangs on St Johns well after I started this thread. They were certainly not backfires, but they may have been firecrackers.

The "backfires" or "fireworks" around 11:30 were too quick & irregular to be backfires and too slow to be fireworks. It sounded exactly like someone unloading a clip.

Anonymous wrote: . It sounded exactly like someone unloading a clip.

Having lived in this location for 13 years (and having grown up in the boonies of PA), I've heard my fare share of car backfires, guns & firecrackers. I agree, last night they sounded like gunshots. That said, when I first moved here, I'd hear gunshots all the time. And the 4th of July started in mid-June and ended just before August. It is so much quieter now - especially since the "girl's home" accross the street moved out. My block used to be way worse, noisier & nastier than any block around here a few years back.

Anonymous wrote: The "backfires" or "fireworks" around 11:30 were too quick & irregular to be backfires and too slow to be fireworks. It sounded exactly like someone unloading a clip.

Yeah, but it wasn't. Die, topic, die!

All the anonymous guests are right! St. Johns is a warzone! Bring your kevlar vests on your runs to Associated!

aren't we coming up on guy fawkes day?

Subject: Gunshots

A gunshot has a distinctively sharp cracking sound, whereas a car backfiring is a more hollow sound.

Candicissima wrote: Bring your kevlar vests on your runs to Associated!

Like I don't? :shock:

None of this phases me, I like to walk down the street humming Zippiddy Doo Da, and honestly I find it much harder to fall asleep at night without the noises and I much prefer the gun shots than the three legged dog that barks somewhere outside my window.

It's funny how some of you simply will not deign to believe that it just may have been gunshots...."oh no not in my upcoming neighborhood!"

Give me a break.

They were gunshots. I heard them. I have heard them around here for years. They aren't going away any time soon. Just because there are fancy cafes and shops nearby does not mean there is no longer a criminal element.

Yes, now that it's getting cooler and I don't have the soothing hum of the air conditioner to lull me to sleep, I count on a raging gun battle to do the trick. As long as it's consistently raging, I'm out in no time.

I don't think anyone was saying that at all, Guest. I think people are saying the opposite: "It must have been gunshots because that block is so ghetto OMG!!!11!!!"

I was conceived here and birthed right on the sidewalk of St Johns and Underhill on a pile of flyers from Hot Bird. Sammy from the grocery store even delivered me and I say they weren't gunshots!