Guess the calibre game anyone?

Tonite while we ring in the new year, many of us will listen and watch the fireworks display at Grand Army Plaza. Others on the East end of the precinct will listen to the sounds of Gunfire. Event begins at midnight and will continue for the first half hour of the new year. We expect our first police involved shooting at that time and usually Queens, Bronx and Brooklyn compete for the title of first Homicide of 2007. May the best Borough win!!!

Wha?

Yeah, it's a real laugh riot for the families and friends of anyone who gets shot in NYC.

fourth of july is actually scary in some hoods.

what the hell is the point of this thread?

standing on my roof last night, watching the GAP fireworks, i was amazed at how many shots were fired.

i think there were way more gunshots than fireworks, and i kept waiting for bullets to fall and hit me in the head.

Yea we saw a bunch too. I thought that shit only happened in the 3rd world.

HUMAN SHIELD!!!!
Dude, push me over the railing, alright?

Exactly. Here's the challenge: the first person to get hit by a celebratory shot while standing on the roof next year, and then falls stories to their dramatic death in the roof of a car or something, wins. We should like start a pool or something.

I say winner gets this:

http://www.promessa.se/index_en.asp

this is the "composting" thing I was telling you about.

Screw that. I still want Brooklyn Potter to make my ashes into a glaze.

Bendy Broad wrote: Screw that. I still want Brooklyn Potter to make my ashes into a glaze.

I LOL'd @ your name.

See, I always have the very finest posts.

Bendy Broad sounds like it could be my alter-ego (but it's not). I hope she's nicer and smarter than I am ;-)

Probably not your alter-ego, but perhaps a kindred spirit.

Drano wrote:

I LOL'd @ your name.

Yeah, I think I'm finally approaching that age in which I can think of myself as a broad.
It was that or "Bendy Bitch," which I just didn't think sounded all that yogic.

Man slain in bloody '07 start

Brooklyn killing among 10 shootings

BY ALISON FOX, ERNIE NASPRETTO and NICOLE BODE
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

A Brooklyn man who was shot in the back just a few blocks from his home became the city's first murder victim of 2007 - a violent kickoff to a New Year that also saw nine others wounded in unrelated shootings.
Jonathon Ridley, 26, was walking to a store with another man about 12:18 p.m. yesterday when he was shot once in the back at Tapscott St. and Sutter Ave. in Brownsville, Brooklyn, police and neighbors said.

"I was coming from the store, nothing was going on. All of a sudden I heard 'Pow!' I never saw so many cops before in my life," said neighbor Leo Stewart, 79.

In all, 10 people were shot yesterday, including: three wounded in an early morning assault in Morningside Heights, four wounded in a Bronx apartment building and two others wounded in separate incidents in Brooklyn and the Bronx, police said.

Although the number of shootings was up from the six people shot Jan. 1 last year, the number of dead fell from a year earlier - with four slain last New Year's Day.

The final murder count for last year was 590, up from 540 in 2005, a 9.2% increase, according to NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.

Included in the 590 were 38 reclassifications from previous years when victims were injured but died in 2006, Browne said. Overall serious crime, however, dropped 4.7%, he said.

The holiday gunfire began shortly after midnight, when an 18-year-old man was shot once in the leg by an unknown attacker outside the Riverdale/Osborne Towers in Brownsville. Soon after, a 25-year-old man was shot once in the chest on E.215th St. in the Bronx.

At the Grant Houses in Morningside Heights, three men ages 27, 28 and 43 were wounded - one seriously - when another man fired indiscriminately into a New Year's crowd on La Salle St. and Amsterdam Ave. just before 1 a.m., police sources said.

At 3:20 a.m., four men were hospitalized after a gun battle in the Morrisania Apartments on E.161st St. in the Bronx.